I’m taking a three month break from writing to recharge (I can’t promise this will improve what I produce when I get back) so...

It’s that time of year where I complain about the Austral winter, which arrived suddenly yesterday and has been inflicting gales, thunderstorms and tornadoes...

It sometimes feels like being a conservationist is like being a punching bag, blow after blow of bad news after bad news hits us...

Tomtits are not a species I have ever talked much about on this blog. This isn’t because I don’t like them, on the contrary,...

The English language, or at least the adherents thereof with more time on their hands than sense, has bestowed us a great number of...

As I said last week, I’ve decided to try and knock off a few of the New Zealand endemics and specialities that I haven’t...

One of my ambitions for this year is to do more birding around New Zealand, and in particular try and knock off a few...

I almost missed it, but New Zealand lost another endemic species recently. Now I’ve written before about how careless this country is with species,...