There are so many wonderful places to go birding in California. You have the sea, the mountains, desert habitats, islands, forests – it seems...

I was a week into my trip to the Peloponnese, in south-west Greece, and my bird list had stagnated on 40 species. So one...

Endangered. Extinction. Research. Conservation. These are the words that define so much of our conversations about the natural world today. The chapter titles of...

After my previous post on my sighting of a Wallcreeper near Bonn, I guess I shouldn’t write a second post on the same bird....

On December 7th an odd looking Peregrine Falcon was observed in Broome at the Sports Oval. In Australia we often observe Peregrine Falcons and...

That’s what lots of people have been screaming (well, metaphorically, anyway) as the Northern Hemisphere’s nesting season does a number on various projects and...

I’ve written before about the surprising and sometimes lovely variety of forms that the simple Rock Pigeon can take, and how much fun there...

In the Northern Hemisphere, at least, spring has sprung. Which means spring fever. Which, in the bird world, means babies. And who doesn’t love...