“Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea” by James A. Eaton, Bas van Balen, Nick W. Brickle and Frank E. Rheindt is...

What I truly hate about the pandemic is that it mentally puts me back into the 1990s in the Balkans. Tensions, failing economy, depression...

Way back in the days when blog posts still got a lot of comments, I wrote a piece on why field guides that arrange...

Since this is the season of love and harmony and all things nice, I sincerely and originally had planned to write an equally nice,...

You’d think that dressing in green to hide from predators inside a dense rainforest is as a strategy as plain as day, yet only...

The pygmy wren-babbler is a tiny babbler that looks like a wren, making it a bird well named. This is not an insignificant fact...

It must suck to be called “Brown Prinia“. Try as I might, I can’t think of a name that implies more boredom and more unattractiveness, and is...

The Sunda Teal is a brown duck. This may make it very popular amongst European birders who can relate, but it doesn’t make it...