One of the highlights of my summer holidays was a week-long hiking trip with two birding friends I met last year while volunteering at...

Take a quick look at the breeding distribution of European birds and you will see that there are a surprising number of species that...

As tree crowns grow thinner, Autumn becomes the true woodpecker season. September in the Balkans started with the usual unruly bunch of Lesser Spotted,...

I dipped a bird recently – possibly a lifer. While crossing Gramos Mountain in northern Greece, a Dendrocopos woodpecker flew over the road and...

The White-backed Woodpecker is the hardest resident woodpecker to find in Europe. Dendrocopos leucotos is absent from western Europe but is found in northern,...