Serious birders may have an obsessive interest in birds, but as we all know one thing they don’t like...

There are scores of birds around the world that have robin in their name – Australia has no fewer...

Few birds are as confusingly named as the three species of wagtails we see regularly in Britain. The best-named...

I’m really a birdwatcher, not a bird photographer, though these days I usually carry a camera. I do so...

Made it with 30 days to spare: on 1 December I notched up my 200th species of the year...

I was first introduced to what is generally called house style many years ago, when I started work as...

Many years ago I was a motoring correspondent. It was much easier, and a lot more fun, to write...

Ten days without a glimpse of the sun is a depressing experience, but that’s what we experienced here in...