Category Birding

Japanese Yellow Bunting merits concern regarding status with low numbers recorded and vulnerability to trapping

After I saw two Japanese Yellow Buntings (aka simply Yellow Buntings Emberiza sulphurata) in Hong Kong this spring, I happened to notice that Birdlife has changed the species’ status from Vulnerable – as it was from 1994 to 2016, to Least Concern in 2022. This surprised me: after…

Grey-faced buzzards and Chinese sparrowhawks pass Hong Kong in numbers on spring days with weather deflecting them from oceanic flyway.

whatever is the world coming to? These groups are supposed to be looking after our feathered friends, cute and cuddly creatures, not getting stroppy. And for what?

Birds are wonderful, but also face an array of threats, mostly resulting from human activities - hunting, habitat loss, climate change...

Two star Hong Kong bird species are Black-faced Spoonbill and Spoon-billed Sandpiper, with stories reflecting changes to east Asian wetlands.

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Notes giving some impressions regarding places, along with conservation - especially the apparent value of bird photography tourism

Birds may undertake marathon flights using astonishing navigation skills – yet are threatened by careless habitat destruction

Black kites are by far the commonest birds of prey in Hong Kong, and among the territory’s most familiar birds.

Visits to openbill stork colonies in Thailand

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While Mai Po is Hong Kong’s best place for birdwatching, Interesting birds occur throughout the SAR, and a prime birding site is in Kowloon.

Birders though Black-faced Spoonbill was common, till they found it was almost extinct.

With a 6.5-foot wingspan, the Philippine eagle is the only bird of prey with blue-grey eyes. Efforts are underway to save it from extinction.

Gurney’s Pitta in Thailand

Gurney's Pitta back from oblivion

I said the reserve could host bird densities like the best migrant traps in the US. "Yes," replied Archibald. "But these are megaticks."

Birds at Wuliansuhai Birds Recorded at Wuliansuhai (west of Baotou), Inner Mongolia, 24 and 25 September; and at Hasuhai (between Baotou and Hohhot) on 26 September 2004 Martin and Maya Williams During afternoon of 24 September, we covered sections of the lake shoreline of the lake – also…

Category Birding

Japanese Yellow Bunting merits concern regarding status with low numbers recorded and vulnerability to trapping

Birds of Prey Passing Hong Kong in Spring Help Reveal Wonders of Migration

Keep Calm and Carry on Twitching

World’s Birds Akin to Canaries in Coalmine as Human Impacts Continue Apace

A Tale of Two Spoon Bills and East Asia Wetland Threats

Southwest Yunnan birding inc Gaoligongshan and Hornbill Valley

Wonders of Bird Migration – and Threatened Asian Wetlands

Hong Kong Black Kites

Openbill Storks resurgence in Thailand

Hong Kong Birding intro

Strange Case of the Black-faced Spoonbill

Philippine Eagle conservation on Mindanao: bringing back Ol’ Blue Eyes

Gurney’s Pitta in Thailand

Beidaihe – Bird Migration Hub of the Orient

Wuliansuhai Birds, Inner Mongolia