Winter Eastern China
2–21 Mar 2025 (20 days)
Tour leaders : Summer Wong ( Wang Wenjuan ), Wang Wenbin
Participants: Peter Boesman, Mark Van Beirs
Cabot’s Tragopan © Summer Wong 2025
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
left to right: Wang Wenbin, Mark, Peter, Summer at the Pale-capped Pigeon site
Short-tailed Parrotbill © Summer Wong 2025
Pied Falconet © Summer Wong 2025
Reeves’s Pheasant © Summer Wong 2025
Hainan Peacock-Pheasant © Summer Wong 2025
Hainan Peacock-Pheasant & Hainan Partridge © Summer Wong 2025
Hainan Peacock-Pheasant & Hainan Partridge © Summer Wong 2025
Hainan Peacock-Pheasant with chicks © Summer Wong 2025
Reeves’s Pheasant & Koklass Pheasant in heavy fog © Summer Wong 2025
Silver Pheasant © Summer Wong 2025
Elliot’s Pheasant © Summer Wong 2025
Blyth’s Kingfisher © Summer Wong 2025
White-eared Night Heron © Summer Wong 2025
Greater Painted-snipe © Summer Wong 2025
Yellow-billed Nuthatch © Summer Wong 2025
White-bellied Erpornis © Summer Wong 2025
Indochinese Green Magpie © Summer Wong 2025
Ratchet-tailed Treepie © Summer Wong 2025
Sultan Tit © Summer Wong 2025
Sultan Tit © Summer Wong 2025
Pale-capped Pigeon © Summer Wong 2025
Spotted Elachura © Summer Wong 2025
White-eared Night Heron © Summer Wong 2025
Thick-billed Green Pigeon © Summer Wong 2025
Rufous-cheeked Laughingthrush © Summer Wong 2025
Large Woodshrike © Summer Wong 2025
Blyth’s Kingfisher © Summer Wong 2025
Large Scimitar Babbler © Summer Wong 2025
Red-headed Trogon © Summer Wong 2025
Chinese Grosbeak © Summer Wong 2025
Manchurian Bush Warbler © Summer Wong 2025
Manchurian Bush Warbler © Summer Wong 2025
Black-winged Cuckooshrike © Summer Wong 2025
Greater Racket-tailed Drongo © Summer Wong 2025
Marsh Grassbird © Summer Wong 2025
Indochinese Green Magpie © Summer Wong 2025
Indochinese Green Magpie © Summer Wong 2025
Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush © Summer Wong 2025
Hodgson’s Hawk-Cuckoo © Summer Wong 2025
Large Scimitar Babbler © Summer Wong 2025
Orange-headed Thrush © Summer Wong 2025
Dusky Fulvetta © Summer Wong 2025
Indochinese Green Magpie © Summer Wong 2025
Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush © Summer Wong 2025
Greater Racket-tailed Drongo © Summer Wong 2025
Oriental Pratincole © Summer Wong 2025
Greater Sand Plover © Summer Wong 2025
White-faced Plover © Summer Wong 2025
Mountain Bulbul © Summer Wong 2025
White’s Thrush © Summer Wong 2025
Chinese Bamboo Partridge © Summer Wong 2025
Lesser Whistling Duck © Summer Wong 2025
Common Moorhen © Summer Wong 2025
Common Moorhen © Summer Wong 2025
recording the sound of Spotted Elachura
Silver Pheasant on the road
photographing Blyth’s Kingfisher
Trying to record sound of Cabot’s Tragopan, but it didn’t call
in Jianfengling, Hainan
in the hide of Reeves’s Pheasant & Koklass Pheasant, with a electric heater in the hide!
in the hide of Elliot’s Pheasant
fancy roast duck
happy to have steak as lunch ~
homemade food in Huoshan, Anhui
homemade food in Mingxi
food & hotels on tour
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