Huanggang Shan (Wuyishan) & Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province, China.   Charles Davies & Stijn De Win

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Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis   Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus   Grey Heron Ardea cinerea   Intermediate Egret Egretta intermedia   Little Egret Egretta garzetta   Chinese Pond-Heron Ardeola bacchus   Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis   Striated Heron Butorides striata   Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax   Yellow Bittern Ixobrychus sinensis   Cinnamon Bittern Ixobrychus cinnamomeus   Besra Accipiter virgatus   Mountain Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus nipalensis   Chinese Bamboo-Partridge Bambusicola thoracica Near-endemic   Cabot's Tragopan Tragopan caboti Vulnerable (VU) Country endemic At least 6 different birds seen, incl. 3 males. Sightings on approx. 10 occasions   Koklass Pheasant Pucrasia macrolopha male near summit, female before entrance gate   Silver Pheasant Lophura nycthemera male near summit   Elliot's Pheasant Syrmaticus ellioti Vulnerable (VU) Country endemic 1 male seen in forest below entrance gate   Ring-necked Pheasant Phasianus colchicus 5-10 Poyang Hu   White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus   Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio   Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus   Pheasant-tailed Jacana Hydrophasianus chirurgus   Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum   Grey-headed Lapwing Vanellus cinereus few en-route Wuyishan, common Poyang Hu   Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius   Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos   Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus   Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia   Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida   Oriental Turtle-Dove Streptopelia orientalis   Red Collared-Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica   Spotted Dove Streptopelia chinensis   Barred Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia unchall   Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo Cuculus nisicolor possibly this species seen briefly   Greater Coucal Centropus sinensis   Lesser Coucal Centropus bengalensis   Fork-tailed Swift Apus pacificus   House Swift Apus nipalensis   Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis   White-throated Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis   Crested Kingfisher Megaceryle lugubris   Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis   Blue-throated Bee-eater Merops viridis   Dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis   Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops 3 seen Poyang Hu   Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major or White-backed seen in flight   Lesser Yellownape Picus chlorolophus   Pale Sand Martin Riparia diluta   Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica   Asian Martin Delichon dasypus   Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica   Rosy Pipit Anthus roseatus   White Wagtail Motacilla alba   Gray Wagtail Motacilla cinerea   Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike Coracina melaschistos   Gray-chinned Minivet Pericrocotus solaris   Collared Finchbill Spizixos semitorques Near-endemic   Light-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis   Mountain Bulbul Ixos mcclellandii   Chestnut Bulbul Hemixos castanonotus Near-endemic   Brown Dipper Cinclus pallasii   Chestnut-bellied Rock-Thrush Monticola rufiventris   Blue Whistling-Thrush Myophonus caeruleus   Eurasian Blackbird Turdus merula   Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis   Plain Prinia Prinia inornata   Brownish-flanked Bush-Warbler Cettia fortipes   Yellowish-bellied Bush-Warbler Cettia acanthizoides possibly this species seen, but altitude low with 1000m asl   Russet Bush-Warbler Bradypterus seebohmi heard only   Buff-throated Warbler Phylloscopus subaffinis   White-tailed Leaf-Warbler Phylloscopus davisoni ogilviegranti   Bianchi's Warbler Seicercus valentini Seen at higher altitude (+1800m)   White-spectacled Warbler Seicercus affinis All seicercus warblers below the 'lunch' house (1800m) most probably this species.   Chestnut-crowned Warbler Seicercus castaniceps   Rufous-faced Warbler Abroscopus albogularis A few near the accommodation   Ferruginous Flycatcher Muscicapa ferruginea 1 seen   Small Niltava Niltava macgrigoriae several seen, male and female   Oriental Magpie-Robin Copsychus saularis Guanzhou airport only   Plumbeous Redstart Rhyacornis fuliginosa   Siberian Stonechat Saxicola maurus   Grey Bushchat Saxicola ferreus   Masked Laughingthrush Garrulax perspicillatus Near-endemic 1 seen en-route, more heard   Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush Garrulax pectoralis   White-browed Laughingthrush Garrulax sannio A pair seen Poyang Hu   Streak-breasted Scimitar-Babbler Pomatorhinus ruficollis 1 seen and 1 more heard   Pygmy Wren-Babbler Pnoepyga pusilla heard only   Red-billed Leiothrix Leiothrix lutea very common   White-browed Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius flaviscapis   Green Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius xanthochlorus Only 1 seen   Striated Yuhina Yuhina castaniceps   Black-chinned Yuhina Yuhina nigrimenta   White-bellied Yuhina Yuhina zantholeuca   Vinous-throated Parrotbill Paradoxornis webbianus 2 groups + 1 single bird seen   Black-throated Tit Aegithalos concinnus   Coal Tit Periparus ater   Great Tit Parus major   Yellow-browed Tit Sylviparus modestus   Eurasian Nuthatch Sitta europaea   Fork-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga christinae only 1 seen   Fire-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum ignipectum   Japanese White-eye Zosterops japonicus   Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus 1 only Poyang Hu   Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach   Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus   Red-billed Blue Magpie Urocissa erythrorhyncha Seen twice en-route near Wuyishan   Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus   Black-collared Starling Gracupica nigricollis   Red-billed Starling Sturnus sericeus Few en-route but common near Nanchang and at Poyang Hu   Nutmeg Mannikin Lonchura punctulata   Brown Bullfinch Pyrrhula nipalensis Several seen   Total number of birds: 111                                                                                                                   list top / Wuyishan trip report / B2A home

Stijn De Win / Birding2asia.com has published this information page on 22 August 2009.