One of the less well remembered awful things that happened in the Second World War (a six year period...

The White-winged guan (Penelope albipennis) was thought to be extinct for 100 years. The Guan had never been seen...

In June, I visited North Dakota for the first time. Like any birder visiting a new place, I had...

I’ve decided to get into the bird tour business. I mean, how hard could it be? Get up early,...

If you ask this Great Ornithologist, extinction is an extremely depressing issue. For mankind to snatch away a species’...

It is the 100th Anniversary of the extinction of the species known as the Passenger Pigeon and writers are...

Midafternoon on 9 August 1825, Andrew Bloxam, the naturalist on the HMS Blonde, shot a starling on Mauke, an...

It stood like a sentinel at the entrance, lonely, waiting. I was running late, and yet I slowed the...