I guess we can universally agree that the colonial times were a rather selfish period of European history. There...

Yes, here it is, another attempt at keeping a year list. I started keeping year lists – not just...

The year 2016 was not a particularly birdy year for me, mostly because I didn’t get to go on...

You may have missed it. Birders tend to miss things outside the birding universe, what with being out and...

Birds wanting to make more birds often do crazy stuff, and birders are well accustomed to encountering splendid plumage...

I am not entirely sure whether most birders outside Germany know or realize that Germany still has a decent...

The Common Moorhen still is in Germany what its name implies: common. Well, it is rather common and can...

There is no denying the fact that birders are a discriminating bunch. This seems to apply especially to birders...