Welcome to Summer Wong China Bird Tours
We are a birding company and ground agent based in Chengdu, Sichuan, China and cooperate with highly experienced international and local bird guides，therefore we are able to offer finest scheduled birding tours and tailor-made custom tours throughout the whole of China.
Leaders
Summer Wong ( Wenjuan Wang / 王文娟 )
After years of working as a local guide for international birding companies such as Birdtour Asia and Birdquest, Summer has turned her strong passion for birding into a career, founded her own birding company and ground agency in 2014, and is now specialized in birding tours to Sichuan, Qinghai, Tibet and Eastern China. While working with many well-known international companies in the field and as a guide, she was able to acquire rich experience in bird life as well as in tourism industry. A tight network with other local birders and guides enables Summer always to be up-to-date with the latest birding information and the recent status of rare species. Hard work on bird sounds, including sound recording and extensive training in listening, made her excellent at identifying birds by song and call. As a dedicated photographer, she has taken all the photos of this website herself, many of them have been uploaded onto ebird website. During the covid, Summer started to lead Chinese birders throughout China, and around the world after covid, founded 青鸟自然旅行 China Nature Tours for Chinese birders.
Summer now still cooperate with Birdtour Asia for their custom tours, here is the introduction from Birdtour Asia:
Summer has been guiding in China for more than a decade, initially in Sichuan before branching out to cover all corners, bit specialising in Sichuan, Qinghai, Tibet, and Eastern China, honing her birding skills to become a knowledge and well respected tour leader, with an eye for detail to make sure every aspect of a tour runs smoothly.
With a close connection to the Chinese birding network, she is always up-to-date on the latest birding news, and happy to tailor tours to best suit your requirements. Summer is an accomplished photographer and a keen sound-recordist which has helped her develop a keen ear for bird sounds, even for the multitude of Phylloscopus warblers. On top of the birds, she has a nose for culinary delights, making any China tour an experience beyond the birds and the scenery!
Frank Lambert
Frank Lambert presently lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Like most UK bird guides, he started his birding in a young age, and first ventured abroad on a birding trip at age 16. Two days after his 19th birthday, he set out with friends on an epic 8-month overland birding trip from London to the Indian subcontinent via Afghanistan and Iran, thus cementing his unwavering passion for global birding. Since then, Frank has birded most parts of the planet, and has been based in Asia for many years. Birding became his work as well as his hobby, and in 1987 he obtained a PhD from the University of Aberdeen after a 4-year study of fruit-eating birds in Malaysian rain forest. Later he studied birds in logged forests at Danum Valley, Borneo. Frank first worked casually as a bird guide in Asia in the early 1990s, before devoting many years to working primarily for conservation NGOs, mostly in Asia. Whilst based in Asia, Frank has managed to bird widely in the region, as well as further afield. After a period living in South America, Frank eventually returned to live in Malaysia in 2009, and since then has been leading tours to many different countries in the region, including various parts of China. Frank has written more than fifty papers on birds, and is the author of the Pica Press book Pittas, Broadbills and Asities, He has found and described three new birds to science in Asia (two rails and an owl), and co-discovered a new tyrant from Peru. Apart from watching birds, Frank’s main passion is to capture their vocalisations, and he has made sound recordings of more than 3,600 species of bird, the majority of which have been unloaded to the Xeno-canto website.
Wenbin Wang
As Summer’s five-years younger brother, Wenbin has a talent in the field too, he has sharp eyes to spot birds. After a whole year bird guide training and co-led experience with Summer throughout China, Wenbin started to solo-guide Chinese birding groups since 2023, and highly praised by Chinese birders for his skill-full guiding work and good sense of taking care of clients and running tours smoothly. In 2024 he started to guide tours for international birders.
Kitty Zhang (Zhang Xuelian)
As a wildlife-conservation major, Kitty started birding in 2006 during college time. After years of wildlife survey work in Yunnan and Tibetan high plateau, she gained rich experience with birds, plants and mammals in that area. With big passion for birds, she decided to become a bird guide years ago, and spent a whole year birding around China in 2023, got nearly 1000 species within China. Kitty co-leaded Sichuan tour with Summer in May-June 2024.
Group photos from our tours
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