I was a week into my trip to the Peloponnese, in south-west Greece, and my bird list had stagnated...

You know things are getting desperate when you get excited by an unexpected flock of Starlings. Here I was,...

While The Observer’s Book of Birds was an inspirational little book for me as a small child, it didn’t...

As a small child I was fascinated by animals, but it was when a pair of Blackbirds nested close...

I’m sitting writing this in my study, its walls lined with books on birds and natural history. However, a...

Most of us have bogey birds – certain species that for one reason or another elude us for years....

Selecting my Top Ten Breckland birds should have been easy, but there was one crucial decision to be made....

Some years ago I was birding in the hills outside Ranikhet, in Uttarakhand, in the foothills of the Himalayas....