In some months, I don’t get to see too many exciting birds in Shanghai – so, as the end of the month draws closer,...

Well – I only saw two species, the most common ones at Sepilok, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia. But they are well worth their own post,...

The islands of the Caribbean are home to 176 species of endemic birds unevenly distributed across the region. Some islands host one or two...

The Blood Pheasant gets its name from the crimson-colored streaks on its body – which apparently to some rather weird or overly imaginative people...

Sometimes I just want to hug eBird, or more specifically, whoever writes the short species descriptions (even though I am not the typical hugging...

As mentioned in many other posts on this blog, the avifauna of Trinidad & Tobago consists of several species and family groups occurring very...

Take a medium-sized stork, then imagine placing a fried egg over each of its eyes. Color the white of the egg yellow and the...

The most important event this August for birders in Shanghai and probably elsewhere was of course the release of a new The National song,...