With my favorite Shanghai birding place at Nanhui getting gradually destroyed under the watchful eyes of the local government favoring Tesla over terns, I...

In Shanghai, May is the month with a chance to see the regional popstars of the birding world – male Japanese and Amur Paradise...

In April, many birds come to Shanghai, stay for a day or two and decide to move on. As all my cats are indoor...

Last Sunday, it was raining hard, but I went out to Chongming Island, a part of Shanghai, anyway. Mostly I went because some farmers...

Shanghai is basically a very flat place. The highest elevations here are all buildings, including the second-highest building in the world, the Shanghai Tower...

Chongming Island is part of Shanghai – but it does not look much like the rest of the city. Located right where the Yangtze...

One of the minor challenges of writing a blog post for 10,000 Birds is to come up with a title. Now, I usually go...

November and early December can be a frustrating time here at Nanhui – on the one hand, there are fewer and fewer birds as...