Spring in Ontario, Canada, is the time for colour and I love colourful things. The following  male birds dazzle,...

A pattern seems to be developing this summer, of birds with really striking faces. First there was the Lesser...

It starts with a flight, then another, then another, then still, one more – to then realise that the...

When writing about pittas, even the normally rather reserved HBW sounds more like to a teenage Taylor Swift fan...

Those of us who have lived long enough to see significant changes to bird populations will have personal recollections...

Continuing our hike from the Karwendel (covered in my last post), my friends and I descended into the Isar...

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

Two weeks ago, I wrote here about what may end up being my Bird of the Year for 2024:...