Cannundrums

We were in Keoladeo NP in India with our guide, Ashok, driving in a motorized rickshaw, when Ashok got quite excited about an orange headed ...

The knob-billed duck is another bird I wanted to see when we went to India this last November, and did see, just not as good a sighting as I...

The common chiffchaff is a leaf warbler. It is migratory, wintering in southern and western Europe, southern Asia and north Africa. I saw it...

In Keoladeo NP in India our guide Ashok identified a lesser whitethroat, a lifer for me. It is a widespread Old World warbler  which winters...

I'd previously seen a white-breasted waterhen in Bundala NP, Sri Lanka in March 2019, but got a poor, blurry photo. In November 2025 we ...

We recently saw the gray francolin in Keoladeo NP and in Ranthambore NP in India. They are a lot like quail with a run first attitude, but a...

The bluethroat is part of the Old World flycatcher family. It breeds in wet birch wood or bushy swamp in Europe and across the Palearctic (a...