Indonesia

Way back in the days when blog posts still got a lot of comments, I wrote a piece on why…

Since this is the season of love and harmony and all things nice, I sincerely and originally had planned to…

You’d think that dressing in green to hide from predators inside a dense rainforest is as a strategy as plain…

The pygmy wren-babbler is a tiny babbler that looks like a wren, making it a bird well named. This is…

It must suck to be called “Brown Prinia“. Try as I might, I can’t think of a name that implies more…

The Sunda Teal is a brown duck. This may make it very popular amongst European birders who can relate, but…

Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park, which comprises the twin volcanoes Gede and Pangrango (with gunung meaning “mountain”),  surely must rate as…

I am starting to feel my age. To be clear, in my early 40’s I really am not complaining. However,…

To all but the greediest rice and spirulina farmers of Southeast Asia, any member of the genus Lonchura is a joy to…