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...

Tongli is an ancient water town in Jiangsu province about one hour away from Shanghai by car (see here for some photos of the...

Wawushan is a weird kind of mountain – it is almost flat at the top. In fact, it is the world’s second-largest table mountain...