Actually, Eliza Doolittle would be pleased to know it doesn’t always stay just there. When I drove to Xábia at the end of April...

My aunt Greet gave me a book in 1975 that featured the 60 most endangered birds in Europe. Amazingly and quite contrary to what...

If it hasn’t begun already, the grape harvest should be getting underway in Spain this month. As the growing season wanes and summer gives...

In a warm Catalonian March (I was about to say Spanish, but among quite a few flags, I haven’t seen a single Spanish one),...

It’s a rush any new birder experiences: that of every species being a lifer. But few new birders appreciate that rush, because they haven’t...

David recently published a post on your favourite bird blog about the taxonomy of the Purple Swamphen, a massive rail found throughout most of...

Peter Thoem settled in Canada many years ago. He lives at the west end of Lake Ontario which, twelve months of the year, is...

Now nearing 50 and duly lost in a mid-life crisis, Dragan Simic took to birding rather late – only half a lifetime ago, after successfully testing...