Over the past week the weather has completely changed in Broome. Following on from Tropical Cyclone Ilsa the night-time temperature finally dropped below 29c. After…
Yibin is a typical smallish Chinese city (which in China means slightly above 850,000 people in the metro area, which would make it the fifth-biggest…
Before we had the change in our weather after Tropical Cyclone Ilsa we had months of isolated showers and the Great Northern Highway to the…
If I had to define spring from a Shanghai birder’s perspective, I would have to say that for me, it begins on the day I…
Flight Paths is a splendid but risky title for a book about bird migration. It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or…
Sitting pretty as the sole member of the genus Catharopeza, the Whistling Warbler is an oddity in many respects. Endemic to a tiny island in…
Before starting Birdingplaces.eu, Chris van der Heijden worked for BirdLife in The Netherlands. During his birding travels through Europe, he came up with the idea…
Down here at the southern end of so many birds’ annual migrations, spring can be a melancholy time. Between March and May, we say goodbye…
Black-eared Cuckoos – Chrysococcyx osculans are one of the smaller Cuckoos in Australia and a Cuckoo species that I have not had much of an…
There are more than 550 national wildlife refuges in the United States, with at least one in every state and one within an hour drive…