October is a good month to see owls in Shanghai, where these birds are rare in most other months. Two species can be seen...
Spoon-billed Sandpiper at Tiaozini, Jiangsu, China The Spoon-billed Sandpiper is probably the most iconic bird species in China – to the point that some...
Today`s post is a continuation of last week`s – an introduction to Shanghai`s 20 most commonly seen birds. After getting to the letter C...
On Sunday morning, I was just lazily working on another post for 10,000 Birds – the (probably not much anticipated) part two of the...
Birdwatchers tend to like the rare, the exotic – yet many common birds are exciting as well. This is something most easily realized when...
A few weeks ago, I spent a few days at Jixi, Anhui, a relatively rural place about 2.5 hours away from Shanghai by high-speed...
Collared Scops Owl – A Cat Head Eagle For a German living in China, bird names have some additional complexities. Most of the...
Anybody spending a few days in Shanghai for business or tourism may not think that this is a good place for birding. In fact,...
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