China Birds

Birding Tour September 16-30, 2013

For the birding tour web site, see http://web.ncf.ca/ed143/China/China.htm

Photos by Bill & Barbara Bowman

(Several native Chinese birds seen at the Beijing Zoo are included here, even though listers can't count them)

Grouse and Partridge

Himalayan Snowcock (Beijing Zoo)

 

Pheasants

Golden Pheasant (Beijing Zoo)

 

Geese

Bean Goose (Beijing Zoo)

Bar-headed Goose (Beijing Zoo)

 

Swans

Whooper Swan (Beijing Zoo)


Ducks

Common Shelduck

Beijing Zoo

Happy Island

Ruddy Shelduck (Beijing Zoo)


Mandarin Duck (Beijing Zoo)


Eurasian Wigeon (Beijing Zoo)

 

Eastern Spot-billed Duck


Northern Shoveler (Beijing Zoo)


Common Pochard (Beijing Zoo)

 

Baer's Pochard (Beijing Zoo)

 

Ferruginous Duck(Beijing Zoo)

 

Hooded Merganser (Beijing Zoo)

 

Grebes

Little Grebe

 

Storks

Painted Stork (Beijing Zoo)

 

Ibises

Crested Ibis (Beijing Zoo)

Spoonbills

Black-faced Spoonbill (Beijing Zoo)

 

Herons

Striated Heron

 

Black-crowned Night-Heron

 

Chinese Pond Heron

 

Grey Heron

 

Cattle Egret

 

Purple Heron

 

Great Egret

 

Little Egret

 

Pacific Reef Heron

 

Chinese Egret

 

Cormorants

Great Cormorant

 

Falcons

Eurasian Kestrel

 

Amur Falcon

 

Northern Hobby

 

Vultures

Himalayan Griffon (Beijing Zoo)

 

Osprey

 

Harriers

Hen Harrier

 

Pied Harrier

 

Accipiters

Japanese Sparrowhawk

 

Oriental Sparrowhawk

 

 

Eagles

Golden Eagle (Beijing Zoo)

 

Bustards

Great Bustard (Beijing Zoo)

 

Gallinules

Common Moorhen

 

Oystercatchers

Eurasian Oystercatcher

 

Stilts, Avocets and Lapwings

Black-winged Stilt

 

Pied Avocet

 

Grey-headed Lapwing

 

 

Large Plovers

Grey Plover

 

Long-billed Plover

 

Snipes

Pin-tailed Snipe

 

 

Godwits

Black-tailed Godwit

 

 

Curlews and Redshanks

Whimbrel

 

Far-eastern Curlew

 

Spotted Redshank

 

Sandpipers

Marsh Sandpiper

 

Common Greenshank

 

Grey-tailed Tattler

 

Temmick's Stint

 

 

Gulls

Black-tailed Gull

 

Relict Gull

 

Black-headed Gull

 

Saunder's Gull

 

 

Terns

Caspian Tern

 

Common Tern

 

Gull-billed Tern

 

 

Pigeons and Doves

Rock Dove

 

Hill Pigeon

 

Oriental Turtle Dove

 

Spotted Dove

 

 

Kingfishers

Black-capped Kingfisher

 

Common Kingfisher

 

 

Bee-Eaters and Hoopoe

Hoopoe

 

 

Woodpeckers

Grey-headed Woodpecker

 

 

Shrikes

Brown Shrike

 

Chinese Shrike

 

 

Orioles and Drongos

Black Drongo

 

 

Magpies

Azure-winged Magpie

 

Red-billed Blue Magpie

 

Common Magpie

 

 

Crows

Large-billed Crow

 

 

Tits

Japanese Tit

 

 

Swallows

Barn Swallow

 

 

Bulbuls

Chinese Bulbul

 

 

Bush Warblers

Lanceolated Warbler

 

 

Warblers

Thick-billed Warbler

 

Black-browed Reed Warbler

 

Radde's Warbler

 

Pallas's Leaf Warbler

 

Yellow-browed Warbler

 

Two-barred Greenish Warbler

 

 

Parrotbills

Vinous-throated Parrotbill

 

White-Eyes

Chestnut-flanked White-Eye

 

 

Nuthatches

Chinese Nuthatch

 

Mynas

Crested Myna

 

Starlings

White-cheeked Starling

 

Red-billed Starling

 

Thrushes

Bluethroat

 

Siberian Rubythroat

 

Siberian Blue Robin

 

Red-flanked Bluetail

 

Swinhoe's Thrush

 

Siberian Stonechat

 

Flycatchers

Asian Brown Flycatcher

 

Sparrows

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

 

Wagtails

White Wagtail

 

Grey Wagtail

 

Pipits

Olive-backed Pipit

 

Grosbeaks

Chinese Grosbeak

 

Buntings

Tristram's Bunting

 

Little Bunting

 

Black-faced Bunting

 

 

 

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