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...

Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park, which comprises the twin volcanoes Gede and Pangrango (with gunung meaning “mountain”),  surely must rate as one of the birding highlights...

I am starting to feel my age. To be clear, in my early 40’s I really am not complaining. However, I feel the wind of...

To all but the greediest rice and spirulina farmers of Southeast Asia, any member of the genus Lonchura is a joy to watch. The munias, or...