I’ve mentioned before the odd melancholy that comes from seeing extraordinary birds while knowing that the extraordinary circumstances that brought them to my local...

We are bound to suffer. Yes, winter has done it again: here in Heidelberg, we are subjected to the painful games of Mr. Grey, trapped under...

Pelagic trips are a gamble on the vastness of the ocean. They can be incredibly dull or amazingly exciting on smooth seas or big...

Eagle-eyed readers of my posts will have noticed that I haven’t been talking about New Zealand much lately. When I’m not too sick or...

My wife and I recently welcomed a second child into the world, so much of my birding has been of the theoretical nature of...

Glad you asked. It’s cold enough in Chicago—where our high temperature for the day was –2 degrees Farenheit—that the polar bear at the zoo...

When the clock ticks over from 11:59 PM on 31 December to 12:00 AM on 1 January people kiss, drink champagne, confetti falls, and...

The North Wind doth blow, and we shall have snow And what will the robin do then, poor thing? He’ll sit in the barn...