White-tailed Eagles normally take flight silently, yet, while checking some Common Starlings and hoping for Rosy Starlings, I heard a few noisy wing-beats, enough...

I bird, therefore I am. Birding defines me, that much is clear. Yet, for the last month and a half I don’t remember doing...

Cover photo: Brian Stoneman was a living proof that some good birders do wear white. I do not know how roads in your neck...

Are you stubborn enough to go out on Sunday morning even if it’s raining? Some of us are. In May, morning bird lists here...

Even before I turn the engine off, I hear the frog-like song of the Great Reed-Warblers. In a cold morning after a rainy night,...

Since I have started to bird by kayak, it took me a lot of time to realise that paddling is not the synonym for...

The patch. All birders know what a patch is, and I’m going to do all of us a favor and spare you the definition...

A birder’s patch is an extension of themselves. It says something about who they want to be, what they want to see regularly, how...