Today`s post is a continuation of last week`s – an introduction to Shanghai`s 20 most commonly seen birds. After...

On Sunday morning, I was just lazily working on another post for 10,000 Birds – the (probably not much...

Birdwatchers tend to like the rare, the exotic – yet many common birds are exciting as well. This is...

A few weeks ago, I spent a few days at Jixi, Anhui, a relatively rural place about 2.5 hours...

Collared Scops Owl – A Cat Head Eagle   For a German living in China, bird names have some...

Anybody spending a few days in Shanghai for business or tourism may not think that this is a good...

I was ostensibly taking a day off from birding. But I don’t think birders ever truly relax their watchfulness....

Let’s start with a confession. I had never heard of Jankowski’s Bunting before last week. But once out in...