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.