Flight Paths is a splendid but risky title for a book about bird migration. It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation...

It all started during the icy February of 1996. The night temperatures in Belgrade, Serbia, were already below minus 10 Celsius / 14 degrees...

Look up Nabang on a map of China – it is literally at the end of a road. As usual, birds seem to like...

Australia has a lot of birds. The “Working List of Australian Birds, v.4,” published by BirdLife Australia lists 2,016 birds, but that includes subspecies...

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...

There are a number of podcasts dedicated to birding (e.g., American Birding Podcast and many others), but many general-interest podcasts also feature episodes of...

According to Wikipedia, the national bird of Australia is the Emu – which I have not seen yet. On the other hand, some websites...

Hot summer days, often reaching 40C/104F, time to open another beer and dream of birding some cooler place, a place where deep shade of...