Strangely, the Oriental Dollarbird seems to suffer a bit from an image problem. Otherwise, why would eBird call it a “heavily built, flat-headed dark...

It is kind of rare to see a Fairy Pitta during Shanghai’s spring migration as those passing through are all adults rather than inexperienced...

In the woodpecker high school yearbook, the Eurasian Wryneck is described as “most likely to be turned into a low-end sock puppet”. Not very...

May is a busy month for birds migrating through Shanghai – and of course, last May was completely missed due to the lockdown. So,...

This is like a post from somebody with a malfunctioning – or at least frivolously used – time machine. I visited Tengchong in late...

As in large parts of its range, the Fork-tailed Sunbird is the only common sunbird at Nonggang, Guangxi, where the photos in this post...

If I had to define spring from a Shanghai birder’s perspective, I would have to say that for me, it begins on the day...

Yibin is a typical smallish Chinese city (which in China means slightly above 850,000 people in the metro area, which would make it the...