Somehow, Steller’s Sea Eagle manages to look both fierce and slightly cartoonish. Maybe the latter is because the bird is so plump, or maybe...

This is a made-up quote, much like we would like you to make up a blog post for 10,000 Birds as a guest. No...

Ruili is a Chinese city right on the border to Myanmar, and a major border crossing. When I last visited the town almost 10...

To be honest, I never cared too much for swans. On the one hand, they are very easy to see in Germany, swimming in...

This post starts like every birding blog post should start – by showcasing some bulbul species. (Yes, I am joking. According to the highly...

Birding Shanghai has its own specific annoyances apart from birds not showing up. One is the continuing destruction of much of its environment. Any...

The Common Green Magpie looks anything but common. (I swear I came up with this sentence myself but later saw that Australian Geographic has...

When Jonathan Slaght did his research on Blakiston’s Fish Owl in Russia’s Far East – which he describes in his excellent book “Owls of...