Hot summer days, often reaching 40C/104F, time to open another beer and dream of birding some cooler place, a place where deep shade of...

Hedgerows are living fences and windbreaks, lines of green space that bisect fields and pastures. They can’t provide the same ecosystem value as natural...

Costa Rica is more than cloud forest with mega worthy quetzals, more than rainforest with fancy Keel-billed Toucans and luscious Green Honeycreepers. Those are...

Sadly, horribly, we live in an era of mass extinction. Go for a walk in a local park in near the capital of the...

Located in the Kutch District of Gujarat, the Naliya Grassland is the smallest reserve of India, covering only 2 square kilometers (yes – 0.77...

A birding trip is more than arriving to your destination and watching birds. It’s also getting ready for the trip and in a sense,...

Once upon a time, vast forests of Quercus robur, known as common, pedunculate, European or English oak blanketed the Sava River floodplain, all the...

Godwits and curlews are shorebird royalty. The macaws of the sandpiper clan, these long-billed, long-legged, loud calling birds are large and in charge. Unlike...