It is a time-honored tradition among Shanghai-based birders to go to some coastal places two or three hours north of the city to unsuccessfully...

Red capped Plover – a resident among the Samphire – above and below An American showed up in Australia recently. Well several really. In...

Shorebirds (in Europe: waders) must be an acquired birding taste. No one starts birding dreaming of drab-coloured, unobtrusive and, far on a mud-bar, largely...

As the dog days of summer descend upon us here in Mexico, many of our avian residents have bailed out and headed back north...

People, and by that I mean the general population, come to Orlando typically for one reason only. Amusement parks. The great crush of humanity...

Growing up in Britain gives Pied Avocets something of a air of royalty, birdwise. They are, after all, the symbol of the RSPB, a...

The Roseate Spoonbill lives up to its name, spectacularly. The bird is, after all, roseate, and, not only that, but it has a big...

The air was thick and clammy, and mosquitoes were biting along Louisiana’s Mermentau River last Thursday morning, the final day of the Audubon Christmas...