Ronald Reagan once said that “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”...

Mengbishan is about five hours away from Balangshan by car, on a road that is partly excellent, partly horrible. The horrible essentially meaning half-an-hour...

Ruoergai is a large grassland in Sichuan on the far eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau. This is a wetland with an altitude mostly...

With my favorite Shanghai birding place at Nanhui getting gradually destroyed under the watchful eyes of the local government favoring Tesla over terns, I...

The relatively flat and open grassland of Ruoergai is also good raptor country – raptor here being used in the broadest sense of the...

Balangshan is a mountainous area in Sichuan complete with a pass at an altitude of 4500 meters. And it is a great place for...

Balangshan is a mountainous area in Sichuan complete with a pass at an altitude of 4500 meters. And it is a great place for...

With travel restrictions still in place, going on a birding trip outside of China is still not a practical option. Fortunately, China itself has...