China birding reports – Summer Wong China Bird Tours

Eastern China Report

15 Feb–1 Mar 2025 (15 days)

Tour leaders : Summer Wong ( Wang Wenjuan ), Wang Wenbin

Participants: MADS PEDER ELLEY, TINA NINKA ELLEY, THOMAS PEDERSEN, ERIK BJERREHAVE, ERIC SCHAUMBURG, HENRIETTE STROM, GERT JEPPESEN, JOHN FRIKKE

Birding spots on this winter eastern China tour: Shanghai, Wuyuan, Poyang Lake, Dongzhai, Emei Feng, Mingxi, Sanming, Fuzhou

Endemics, breeding endemics, near endemics and highlight birds we had seen on 2–21 Mar 2025 Winter Eastern China: Cabot’s Tragopan (E), Silver Pheasant, Koklass Pheasant, Elliot’s Pheasant (E), White-necklaced Partridge (E), Pied Falconet, Scaly-sided Merganser, Crested Ibis, Reed Parrotbill, Baer’s Pochard, Siberian Crane, Common Crane, Hooded Crane, White-naped Crane, Blyth’s Kingfisher, Chinese Barbet (E), White-eared Night Heron, Grey-sided Scimitar Babbler (E), Mandarin Duck, Chinese Penduline Tit, Sultan Tit, Chinese Hwamei, Masked Laughingthrush, Red-headed Trogon, Black-faced Spoonbill, Dusky Fulvetta, Huet’s Fulvetta, Indochinese Yuhina, Chinese Blackbird (E), Chinese Grosbeak, White’s Thrush, Yellow-browed Bunting, Pallas’s Reed Bunting, Tristram’s Bunting, Saunders’s Gull

15 Feb–1 Mar 2025 (15 days) winter eastern China trip bird list : https://ebird.org/tripreport/342612

Checklists based on birding spots and dates: https://ebird.org/tripreport/342612?view=checklists

Sensitive species seen on tour but not shown in the trip list: Red-billed Blue-Magpie, Chinese Hwamei

Videos of birding scene, hotels, foods, scenery photos on the bottom of this page

White-necklaced Partridge © Summer Wong 2025

White-eared Night Heron © Summer Wong 2025

Chinese Penduline Tit © Summer Wong 2025

Red Giant Flying Squirrel © Summer Wong 2025

a public hide for Siberian Crane in Poyang Lake

got a displaying male Cabot’s Tragopan ！！

night spotting for White-eared Night Heron

Poyang Lake

Got great view of Pied Falconet !!!

In China, it’s common for people to gather around a large round table with a built-in lazy Susan, allowing everyone to easily share and access multiple communal dishes during a meal.

Birthday cake for Tina when we were at Poyang Lake

a Cantonese cuisine restaurant in Fuzhou

a local traditional breakfast restaurant in Polyang Lake, Wucheng

breakfast in Jiangxi, made with rice, egg, pork and veges in a steaming box

bird call at night in the hotel lobby in Jiangxi

group photo with a local student (in the middle) who spent a half day birding with us in Fuzhou forest park

15 Feb–1 Mar 2025 (15 days) winter eastern China trip bird list : https://ebird.org/tripreport/342612

Checklists based on birding spots and dates: https://ebird.org/tripreport/342612?view=checklists

Eastern China Report

2–21 Mar 2025 (20 days)

Tour leaders : Summer Wong ( Wang Wenjuan ), Wang Wenbin

Participants: Peter Boesman, Mark Van Beirs

Birding spots on this tour: Shanghai, Wuyuan, Poyang Lake, Huoshan, Dongzhai, Emei Feng, Mingxi, Sanming, Fuzhou, Hainan Island – Jianfengling, Danzhou

Endemics ( 10 species), breeding endemics, near endemics and highlight birds we had seen on 2–21 Mar 2025 Winter Eastern China: Cabot’s Tragopan (E), Reeves’s Pheasant (E), Silver Pheasant, Koklass Pheasant, Elliot’s Pheasant (E), White-necklaced Partridge (E, heard only), Hainan Peacock Pheasant (E), Hainan Partridge (E), Pied Falconet, Scaly-sided Merganser, Crested Ibis, Reed Parrotbill, Short-tailed Parrotbill, Baer’s Pochard, Siberian Crane, Common Crane, Hooded Crane, White-naped Crane, Blyth’s Kingfisher, Chinese Barbet (E), Spotted Elachura, White-eared Night Heron, Grey-sided Scimitar Babbler (E), Mandarin Duck, Manchurian Bush Warbler, Hainan Leaf Warbler (E), Hainan Blue Flycatcher, Yellow-billed Nuthatch, Marsh Grassbird, Chinese Penduline Tit, Sultan Tit, Rufous-cheeked Laughingthrush, Chinese Hwamei, Spot-necked Babbler, Masked Laughingthrush, Black-throated Laughingthrush, Red-headed Trogon, Pale Blue Flycatcher, Large Scimitar Babbler, Ratchet-tailed Treepie, Indochinese Green Magpie, Eastern Grass Owl, Eastern Barn Owl, Oriental Bay Owl, King Quail, Barred Buttonquail, Black-faced Spoonbill, Dusky Fulvetta, Huet’s Fulvetta, Indochinese Yuhina, Chinese Blackbird (E), Chinese Grosbeak, White’s Thrush, Yellow-browed Bunting, Pallas’s Reed Bunting,Tristram’s Bunting, Painted Snipe, Saunders’s Gull, Pale-capped Pigeon

2–21 Mar 2025 (20 days) Winter Eastern China trip bird list https://ebird.org/tripreport/343386

Checklists based on birding spots and dates: https://ebird.org/tripreport/343386?view=checklists

Sensitive species seen on tour but not shown in the trip list: Hainan Peacock-Pheasant, Eastern Barn Owl, Oriental Bay-Owl, Red-billed Blue-Magpie, Chinese Hwamei, Black-throated Laughingthrush

Videos of birding scene, hotels, foods, scenery photos on the bottom of this page