Birdwatchers tend to like the rare, the exotic – yet many common birds are exciting as well. This is something most easily realized when...

About two times per year, I spend a few weeks in Northern Germany – Visselhövede, to be exact. This is not generally a very...

A few weeks ago, I spent a few days at Jixi, Anhui, a relatively rural place about 2.5 hours away from Shanghai by high-speed...

Collared Scops Owl – A Cat Head Eagle   For a German living in China, bird names have some additional complexities. Most of the...

  These days, quite a few species are breeding at Nanhui, Shanghai. This involves a lot of flying around, finding food and bringing it...

Anybody spending a few days in Shanghai for business or tourism may not think that this is a good place for birding. In fact,...