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China Beijing

Yellow-rumped Flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia ŠAlister Benn http://www.availablelightimages.com

Strictly speaking Beijing is not a province but a municipality but it has the same political status as a province.

useful reading

* Field Guides & Bird Song

For a comprehensive list of recommended titles covering China as a whole - please see the China page of Fatbirder

clubs

Beijing Bird Watching Society

http://www.cbw.org.cn
Beijing Bird Watching Society (BBWS) (in preparation) was founded by active and keen birdwatchers in Beijing. It is committed to forming bird watching groups in Beijing and promoting local bird watching activities. A number of members of BBWS have a professional background on ornithology, ecology, environmental conservation or education... see: http://www.chinabirdnet.org/beijing.html

reserves

Songshan Nature Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21379.htm
Covering an area of 4,660 hectares, the Reserve mainly protects natural Chinese pine trees...

trip reports

Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you cant find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page give them a try!

2002 [December] - Jesper Hornskov and Jan Kiel - Beidaihe Area

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/china/beidaihe2/dec-02.htm
...On 2 Dec we visited scrub-covered hillsides at the Great Wall near Shanhaiguan before JK departed on the 13h30 train, enjoying prolonged sessions with several N China birds, incl. Pere David`s Laughingthrush, Vinous-throated Parrotbill, Chinese Hill Warbler, and the exquisite Godlewski`s, Meadow & Yellow-throated Buntings...

2003 [June] - Steve Bale - Baihuashan

http://www.surfbirds.com/mb/trips/china-bale-0603.html
...Also, if you are planning to spend a day getting there, there are many places along the 109 that would seem to be worth a stop. This main highway follows the Qingshui River for more than 50km. The long valley is flanked by steep mountains and is lined with woods, accessible scrub, attractive marshy areas; a lake or two; and even some patches of reeds. This area may be particularly good during migration. Even though it was late in the season, we saw 4 Black-capped Kingfishers perched on the same line of telegraph wires above the dry upper-reaches of the Qingshui River...

2003 [October] Rob Drummond - Shanghai, Gaoyou, Yangzhou, Yellow Mountain area - Annhui Province, Beijing, Great Wall - Badalang

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/china/china3/china-oct-03.htm
I have just returned from three weeks in China as part of a school trip so basically I was acting as a sheep dog for 57 teenagers and most birdwatching was incidental. We visited the usual places although we did spend 10 days at Gaoyou which is located on the Grand Canal, c160 km north of Nanjing and is certainly a place off the tourist path and I suspect not a place that has been visited by too many overseas birders. Several of my records from there were of species whose distributions, according to the field guide, stopped at the Yangtze...

2005 [April] - Edward C Hall

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/china/china4/china-mar-05.htm
During the course of an OAT tour of China, I took every opportunity to break away for birding. Following are some suggestions as to where others might productively visit. These suggestions reflect, of course, the time of year that I was there and may not be as applicable to other seasons...

China Bird Report

http://www.cnbirder.com/
For the most part these are just lists of birds seen on individual dates at locations across the whole of China - but none-the-less, useful... In Chinese and [mostly] English.

local guides

Birding Pal

http://www.birdingpal.org/China.htm
Local birders willing to show visiting birders around their area...

Wings

http://wingsbirds.com/tours/view/75
...Returning to Beijing we'll head out to the coast to search for migrants such as Great Knots, Red-necked Stints, White's Thrushes and Siberian Blue Robins at Beidaihe, a world-class coastal migration site. Here we'll also stand a good chance of seeing regional specialties such as Baikal Teal and Relict and possibly Saunders's Gulls...

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