It has been two years now since we sponsored McCaw (a North Island Brown Kiwi named after a former New Zealand rugby captain) with a radio transmitter collar for research. In partnership with the Whakatāne Kiwi Trust, we are hoping that the data from McCaw will assist to better understand these birds and to try...

I was very lucky recently to be invited by the Palau Visitors Authority to visit the Micronesian Island of Palau, from the 29th of May to the 1st of June. The invitation was part of an initiative to encourage bird-watching tours to visit the islands. A full programme was laid out for me, and I was kept busy...

Rockjumper’s early summer tour of China (Yunnan and Sichuan) kicked off superbly with an immensely successful Yunnan Extension. The birding was excellent and the group managed to score a healthy number of range-restricted and rare species. Highlights included the scarce and impressive Giant Nuthatch, the...

Current technology limits the non-stop flight time of a commercial aircraft to 17½ hours. However, in the avian world, there’s a flight that’s even longer – one that’s just recently started to be monitored by conservationists. Namely, the very impressive long distance migration of Amur Falcons as they...

Hi all! A recent trip to the seldom-visited birding hotspot of Burma (or Myanmar as it is known these days) proved to be an immense success. We managed to score all 7 Burmese endemics, namely the four dry country specialties (Hooded Treepie, Burmese Bushlark, Jerdon’s Minivet and White-throated...