The North Shore of Sydney is, as I’ve often observed, a great place to watch birds. On my last...

I often like to poke fun at how dangerous the wildlife of Australia is, as ever since the giant...

In his comment in last week’s post on the Marlborough Sounds, Beat writer Jochen described the New Zealand Fantail...

After all the excitement (such as it was) of last week it was nice to have an escape route...

Two years ago I wrote about the earthquake that struck Christchurch, killing many people and wrecking on of New...

Sometimes the birds we see take a lot of work. I wouldn’t know about that myself, as I am...

Does birding make you happy? It seems like an odd question; I mean, if it didn’t, why would you...

There’s often a trick to getting a location; you can’t just go to a location and low and behold…....