For most of the places I visit, a single field guide is sufficient to cover the area at hand; however when I travel in China, with its 1,431 species of birds to be found within its borders, no single field guide has previously been sufficient to cover the expansive area across which I must travel on my duly appointed factory-visiting rounds. Fortunately, this past January that changed…
With yet another business trip rapidly approaching – this time to a new destination for me: Hong Kong – I found myself a bit flat-footed as to proper preparation. Not what clothes and such to pack, of course; rather what natural history guides to obtain to get an understanding of what I might see while […]
To say that the Mesozoic fossils that have been discovered in the Jehol region of China are remarkable is to greatly understate the matter; they are breath-taking. And among all the fossils found, few can rival those of the early birds discovered there.