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....

Goodbye August, I won’t be sorry to see you go. Unless you happen to live near the coast, in...

One of the first birds I remember seeing was a Green Woodpecker. It had landed on our neighbours’ lawn,...

There’s nothing like an unexpected bird to get the pulse racing, as I was reminded on a recent warm...

I was amused to read Sara Jentsch’s recent diatribe on gulls: Why I despise Seagulls: A Tale of Humiliation....

Take a quick look at the breeding distribution of European birds and you will see that there are a...