I’ve been thinking about petrels a lot since last week’s post, probably because I am planning a trip to...

Birding the Dry Tortugas in late April has always been high on my bucket-list of the best birding experiences...

Tubenose. No, it’s not part of a Shakespearean insult. Tubenoses are seabirds that belong to an order called Procellariiformes...

Long before I moved in New Zealand, or visited or even knew much about the wildlife here, way back...

The Eastern Mediterranean Sea is what oceanographers call ultraoligotrophic, meaning that it has low primary productivity. Basically there just...

Iceland Gulls do not breed in Iceland.  They do winter there, as well as in northern parts of Europe,...

When a pelagic trip is short of great new birds to watch there is almost always the chum scrum...

A big bruiser of a bird, the Glaucous Gull is nothing if not bulky.  It sometimes looks like a...