I recently found out that on this planet of ours there exist people, actual living, walking, breathing people, who claim that birds are ...

John Whitehead (1860-1899) was a British explorer who once a year starting in 1885 tried to climb Mount Kinabalu and finally succeeded in 1888, the first ...

Ardent readers of this blog would realise by now that I have been chronicling a few days spent in Guyana last year – I felt that a single post or two would ...

In his book Tales of a Tribe, author Mark Cocker describes an unfortunate event befalling a friend. One night while camping in the Himalayas, the birding ...

Memorable encounters with Mammals Part II It’s generally reckoned that there are more deer in Britain today than there were in the Middle Ages, a fact ...

The word “endemic” has always seemed rather vague to me. Oxford Languages offers this definition: 2. (of a plant or animal) native and restricted to a ...

The Varied Tit is a rare species in Shanghai – this was the first time I ever saw one, even though it is relatively common further North in China. ...

Although by this time we had already clocked around a hundred species after a day and a half in Guyana, we were understandably eager to explore the famous ...

While I have visited a few birding sites around the Netherlands during the course of my Bachelor studies, I did not go birding a lot around ...

Memorable encounters with Mammals: Part I Most birdwatchers enjoy seeing mammals, but the trouble with mammals is that they tend to be much more ...

Last week, David Tomlinson wrote about the excitement of that first birding outing for the year, when every bird is new again. One always wants to see as ...

“Birds and insects, as might have been expected, are very few in number; indeed I believe all the birds have been introduced within late years” – ...