Old world warblers are difficult for North American birders. That is obvious. Rather than trying to learn them North American birders are well-advised to...
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Having jumped around a bit while writing up my trip to Hungary – sharing a few galleries, a trip to find an elusive woodpecker,...
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There are two species in the Old World woodpecker genus that sounds like birds that birders would never be able to see. They are...
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Jeff Gordon and I were wandering around the seriously disturbed habitat behind the airport hotel we stayed in outside of Budapest when a bizarre...
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The Barred Warbler, otherwise known as Sylvia nisoria, is one of those species that is aptly named if you only ever see an adult...
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Do you know what the luckiest little bird in the world is? It is a fledgling Song Thrush being attended by a parent outside...
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The White-backed Woodpecker is the hardest resident woodpecker to find in Europe. Dendrocopos leucotos is absent from western Europe but is found in northern,...
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It is the insensible birder who doesn’t learn something on each and every birding outing. And on a week-long trip especially devoted to birding...
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