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...

If you are one of those nature lovers that appreciates that original Audubon plates do not represent the full...