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...

Shanghai in March is still a good time to see a variety of buntings before they migrate North. Most of them are easy to...

As you probably are aware, male Lady Amherst’s Pheasants regularly get into fights with other birds. The typical scene is something like this: the...

In Kangding, there is a rather opulent bird hide – two stories, solid construction, spacious, lots of glass, a separate paved parking lot, though...

I am not actually really sure whether I like the sight of the male Mandarin Duck. On the one hand, it obviously is a...

The last time I birded Longcanggou, a national forest park in China’s Sichuan province, was in November 2021. Now, 14 months later, the place...

February 2023 was a slow month for birding in Shanghai, at least for me – so slow that I almost put the Spotted Dove,...