Tianmushan is a mountain in Zhejiang province – not very high at about 1500 meters, but of course offering very different birds from flat...

While Mike and Corey – fitting for being real celebrities in birding cycles – get invited to far-flung places such as Uganda, minor local...

In April, many birds come to Shanghai, stay for a day or two and decide to move on. As all my cats are indoor...

Chongming Island is part of Shanghai – but it does not look much like the rest of the city. Located right where the Yangtze...

As the Purple Swamphen awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, it found himself transformed into a Grey-headed Swamphen. It must indeed have been a...

Good news for those frightened by the title of my last blog post – we are now back in the safe and boring world...

One of the minor challenges of writing a blog post for 10,000 Birds is to come up with a title. Now, I usually go...

Menglun in Xishuangbanna is less than 50 km away from the Chinese border to Laos and Myanmar, and it has a big botanical garden....