Tag: Hong Kong
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Birding Adventure at Long Valley, New Territories

Today was my first free weekday in over a month, and the fact that the weather finally cleared up enough for birding led to me gathering up my gear and hitting the road early to make it to a bucket-list birding spot for me: Long Valley. I set out to find the elusive Japanese Quail…
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Birding Adventure at Tai Po Kau Forest!

Until around a thousand years ago, Hong Kong was cloaked in ancient subtropical rainforest where majestic creatures like South China Tigers, Asian Elephants, Silver Pheasants, and Red-Headed Trogons roamed. Throughout the last six centuries, the merciless destruction of these forests for agriculture, firewood and building materials by Chinese settlers led to European explorers considering Hong…
