Nerd of a Feather

How the Island Got Its Birds  Now in the hibernal depths, I cannot help but contemplate distant lands under a tropical sun. Last summer I ...

The Return to Cusuco After measuring thousands of dead birds I was keen to see some live ones. So it was that I secured a place on the ...

This is the last of my instalments based on Tring’s non-passerine birds. These are some of the rarest bird species in the world and there a...

Marabou stork – Leptoptilos crumenifer The marabou stork is not the most attractive bird and it would make a terrible dinner guest as c...

Now for some of the species that were too large for the normal collection and they are large in every sense of the word. Beware there wil...

Day 71: White-browed piculet – Sasia ochracea Bamboo bambino This pretty little bird is a close relative of the woodpeckers, bein...

Day 67: Rainbow bee-eater – Merops ornatus No sting in the tail Bee-eaters are a charismatic group of birds in the family Meropidae...