In search of the potato bird

It’s a tiny atoll in the Seychelles, but Cosmoledo is an astonishing place to go birding, writes David Tipling

Mountain birding in Taiwan puts our own uplands in perspective, writes Ruth Miller

twenty metres up, the canopy looks like a highway. Different shades of green, yellow and grey leaves fuse, creating the illusion of an endless rainforest. I spent most of 2013 in the canopy of a cloud

DAVID LINDO THE URBAN BIRDER

From a heroic long-distance swimmer to a producer of spectacularly eerie sound effects, the seabirds seen swooping and diving over British waters have all manner of singular skills, says John Lewis-Stempel

At the extreme end of global viticulture, Patagonia, in the far south of South America, is producing wines of extreme quality