Winter Eastern China

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

Reed Parrotbill © Wang Wenbin 2025

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

Baer’s Pochard © Wang Wenbin 2025
Siberian Crane © Summer Wong 2025
Pied Falconet © Wang Wenbin 2025
Elliot’s Pheasant © Summer Wong 2025
White-necklaced Partridge © Summer Wong 2025
White-eared Night Heron © Summer Wong 2025
Cabot’s Tragopan © Summer Wong 2025
Elliot’s Pheasant © Summer Wong 2025
Silver Pheasant © Summer Wong 2025
Baer’s Pochard © Wang Wenbin 2025
Chinese Penduline Tit © Summer Wong 2025
Red Giant Flying Squirrel © Summer Wong 2025
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.
Fancy roast duck dinner
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
Typical Chinese breakfast food
breakfast in Jiangxi, made with rice, egg, pork and veges in a steaming box
Local street food in Sanming
in a rice noodle restaurant of Wuyuan
bird call at night in the hotel lobby in Jiangxi

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

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