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...

About two times per year, I spend a few weeks in Northern Germany – Visselhövede, to be exact. This...

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...

  These days, quite a few species are breeding at Nanhui, Shanghai. This involves a lot of flying around,...

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