Category Wildlife

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…

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.

Inspired by The Malay Archipelago, I'm travelling to Ternate and nearby Bacan and Halmahera.

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

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I’m visiting two safari lodges – Abu Camp in the heart of the Okavango, a delta within a desert, and King’s Pool, in northeast Botswana.

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

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Exploring two outstanding national parks that are close to Jakarta, yet take time to reach - well rewarding the effort with splendid forests, scenery and wildlife watching.