China

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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