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,...

This is the second part of a post showing some birds seen at Nonggang in December 2022, along with the usual (mostly irrelevant) comments....

In Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye”, there is a mention of a fictional story titled “The Secret Goldfish”. Basically, it is about a boy...