From my home in Shanghai, it is about a four-hour drive to the North to Yancheng, a place to look for Red-crowned Cranes in...

The 10,000 Birds universe has undoubtedly been shaken to its very core recently, because it has been over two weeks since I last contributed...

Last Sunday we were driving down a gravel road, which is mostly the local red sand known as pindan, when Grant said “we’re going...

I think there is a potential joke somewhere in a person saying in an exaggerated French accent “I have no egrets” (try imagining the...

The twin-island postcolonial paradise of Trinidad & Tobago celebrates its 60th anniversary of independence today, and as much as I am vehemently anti-nationalist I...

When I was a kid (and don’t you hate it when blog posts start like this, with the author apparently just assuming that you...

One of the pairs of Pied Oystercatchers on Cable Beach have hatched their eggs this week. There had been one egg in the nest...

Letaba is a largish rest camp in the North central part of the park. It is near a river, attracting some birds that like...