As the Purple Swamphen awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, it found himself transformed into a Grey-headed Swamphen. It must indeed have been a...

Good news for those frightened by the title of my last blog post – we are now back in the safe and boring world...

One of the minor challenges of writing a blog post for 10,000 Birds is to come up with a title. Now, I usually go...

Menglun in Xishuangbanna is less than 50 km away from the Chinese border to Laos and Myanmar, and it has a big botanical garden....

November and early December can be a frustrating time here at Nanhui – on the one hand, there are fewer and fewer birds as...

The Avibase China birdlist counts 7 species of minivets for China – one of which is the Ashy Minivet. For Japan, there are only...

China is not that well-known for its hornbills, but in Yunnan province, on the border to Myanmar, some species can be found. While they...

What an exciting title, isn`t it? I was thinking of something along the lines of “Sex and drugs and birds” first – probably a...