At first Susan and I felt overwhelmed by the sheer size and scope of the colony. Birds—big birds—crowded every inch of the sloping land between the base of t...

Almost by definition, penguins mean adventure. The penguin of our imagination is associated with distant seas, frozen temperatures, and, above all, ice. Tha...

South Georgia Island has enormous breeding colonies king penguins. This one, on Salisbury Plain, can have as many as 200,000 breeding pairs. How do mates fin...

To our friends and family, this growing passion for penguins was nearly incomprehensible. While they were going to the beaches of Hawaii, Susan and I were he...

In this trying season for everyone, enjoy some quality birding in your garden. I just learned that in a national photo contest on Gardens for Wildlife, I hav...

From Every Penguin in the World – Susan and I grew increasingly aware that our own relationship was marked by our love of penguins.  This was a discovery tha...

The two king penguins on the pebbled beach at Macquarie Island were obviously courting. As penguins do, they assumed poses in which they mirrored each other....

Penguin Lovers and Animal People! Please circle April 21, 2020—the day before Earth Day—on your calendars. We will have a Launch Party for Every Penguin in...

Wild Planet Photo Magazine chose this image as the Editors' Choice and Photo Challenge winner.  I love this magazine.  It's the sixth time one of my images h...

A mother polar bears marched directly up to us, coming closer and closer.

My photo picturing a Galapagos Penguin with Rainbow recently was award a prize by Wild Planet.

In all the bad news swamping our country now, here's a good-news story about what one many can do to save an unheralded species.

Wild Planet Magazine has featured this photo of Yellow-eyed Penguins scurrying off, as their "Photo of the Day."

New piece on smuggling African grey parrots, and the second featured photograph, of three parrots in morning light--it's mine!

We've added new galleries of photos after wonderful excursions to Italy and Indonesia.

Enjoy photographer Charles Bergman’s discoveries, from the ice fields of Antarctica to the volcanic shores of the Galápagos, in this free, 1

This past fall, I gave a talk about my conversations with penguins, especially a king penguin on South Georgia Island.

In January Susan and I traveled to Tanzania, for a safari and, magnificently, several days with the chimpanzees of Mahale along Lake Tangany

There has been a lot of publicity lately for our work last summer with Jane Goodall.

Nature's Best Photography Magazine, and the Smithsonian Institution, chose one of my photos for a major international award.