January 2021

I managed to cram in more birding in January 2021 than in the whole of the covid-affected 2020. Ebird tells … More

20 in 2020

2020 has been a poor year for most birders. I’m no great exception, and had a planned trip to Peru … More

Western Whipbird is one of the so-called BIG THREE of south-west WA birding, the other two being Western Bristlebird and … More

In 2007 I visited South Australia as a birder for the first time. I was here to give a keynote … More

…continued from Part 2… Day 7 We began the day with a superbly scenic walk up the escarpment at Victoria … More

…continued from Part 1… Day 4 The start of the day was structured around a pre-booked activity, a cruise on … More

7-16 Aug 2020 Preamble Six or seven years into our Australian sojourn I still had a few birds to collect … More

And so, plover-lovers, we finally come to the end of my wade through waders, peek at peeps, my stint writing … More

The penultimate post in this series, taking you on a whirlwind tour of my wader birding and twitches. Maybe not … More

Part 4 is dedicated to the largest wader family, calidris, all migratory birds of the coast. There’s an awful lot … More