Male Japanese Paradise Flycatchers pass through Shanghai in mid-May – they do so in autumn as well, but then without the long tail feathers...

I had just been to Wahner Heide (heath) a few weeks ago and covered that visit in my last post, but I found myself...

A couple of years ago my friend Martin Tickler called me late on a grey Sunday afternoon. “You won’t believe this, David, but there’s...

Those who read my posts regularly — and some recent comments have assured me that you are, in fact, out there — will know...

Frankly, Ho Chi Minh City is not a place you would go to specifically for birding. But if you are there anyway (at the...

There are 154 species of cuckoos in the world, and they’re all a fascinating bunch. I reckon I’ve seen around 60 or them, which...

Back when I was a kid growing up in California’s San Mateo County in the 60s and 70s, my family would occasionally drive 45...

Although many think of the Pacific Northwest as a rainy with lush green forests, the region east of the Cascade mountains is characterized by...