The Pekin Robin

Like many of the common names applied to birds from around the world, the name of the Pekin Robin is more than a bit misleading.  After all, it isn’t from China but India and it isn’t a robin but one of the families classified as the laughingthrushes.  Despite it’s confusing name, this bird does have…

What is a Softbill?

It’s good to have ambitions in life and bird keeping is no different.  My ambition is to one day have softbill species among my bird family, although many of them I can’t consider in my current set up for one reason or another.  As a result of this ambition, I have started collecting information about…