At Nanhui, all bird parents are working parents – with all the stress that this brings. This Long-tailed Shrike...

By some measures, Shanghai is the most populated city in the world. That does not make it sound like...

Well, a somewhat obvious title for a blog post from China these days, particularly from somebody who pretends to...

I feel that like most bird families (with the obvious exception of pheasants), buntings are somewhat underrated. They lack...

When I was much younger, as a student, I sometimes made mixtapes of favorite music. This was in the...

There’s a place in southeast Shanghai at the junction of the Yangtze River estuary and Hangzhou Bay called Nanhui...

October is a good month to see owls in Shanghai, where these birds are rare in most other months....

September and October are probably the best two months in Shanghai – it is warm but not unbearably hot,...