When Corey and Mike asked if I wanted to review this book, I cautioned them that I am far...

It seemed liked an innocuous idea. Seven birders, a boat for hire, and a cruise around lower New York...

It’s that time of year when a young man’s thoughts turn to tropical seabirds like the Christmas Shearwater… wait,...

Red-tailed Tropicbird. “This clumsy, ungraceful bird was displeasing to observe” – Carol F.   Pelagic trips. There is nothing...

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...

I’ve got two longer more wordy posts in a half finished condition this week, so rather than rush them...

The IOC World Bird list proposed a number of unconventional bird names, most notably the Great Northern Loon (Gavia...