This post starts like every birding blog post should start – by showcasing some bulbul species. (Yes, I am joking. According to the highly...

Birding Shanghai has its own specific annoyances apart from birds not showing up. One is the continuing destruction of much of its environment. Any...

The Common Green Magpie looks anything but common. (I swear I came up with this sentence myself but later saw that Australian Geographic has...

When Jonathan Slaght did his research on Blakiston’s Fish Owl in Russia’s Far East – which he describes in his excellent book “Owls of...

Hongbenghe is directly at the border to Myanmar – before COVID-19, it was easy enough to walk across the border on foot, but now...

Sometimes I do not feel like writing so much. Fortunately, this is not a problem for me – all I have to do to...

Among Chinese birders, Tengchong – and particularly the monastery at the bottom of Laifengshan – is known as one of the best places to...

A crest is a “comb or tuft of feathers, fur, or skin on the head of a bird or other animal”. Birds use them...