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China Guangdong

Spot-billed Duck Anas poecilorhyncha ŠAlister Benn http://www.availablelightimages.com

The provincial capital of Guangdong is Guangzhou.

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

The Birds of Hong Kong and South China

Clive Viney, Karen Phillips and Lam Chiu Ying - Hong Kong Government Information Service 2005
ISBN: 962020347X
Buy this book from NHBS.com

Where to Watch Birds and Other Wildlife in Hong Kong and Guangdong

Tim J Woodward and Geoff J Carey 197 pages, col photos, line illus, 30 maps.
ISBN: 9628508415
Buy this book from NHBS.com

useful information

Official Provincial Bird

Silver Pheasaant Lophura nycthemera

clubs

Shenzhen Bird Watching Society

http://www.chinabirdnet.org/shenzhen.html
Shenzhen Bird Watching Society (SZBWS) was formally established on 3 March 2004, with support from Shenzhen Municipal Oceanic Bureau. The organization is now a legal entity, with the approval of the Shenzhen Civil Affairs Bureau...

Shenzhen Bird Watching Society

http://www.szbird.org.cn/
In chinese

reserves

Ba Bao Shan Nature Reserve

One of the last refuges for the Chinese Tiger...

Dinghu Mountain National Nature Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21339.htm
...there are more than 170 species of birds, 30 species of animals and 20 species of pythons, among which leopards, serows and silver pheasants are under the state protection. Silver pheasant is the official bird of Guangdong Province...

Huidong Harbor Sea Turtle National Nature Reserve

http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_china.htm
At the juncture of Daya Bay and Honghai Bay in the South China Sea, presently the only sea turtle protected area in China, with seawater and gently-sloping sandy beaches still in good environmental quality and eminently suitable for sea turtles...

Wuyishan National Key Nature Reserve

http://chinavista.com/travel/wuyi/nature.html
Wuyi Mountain stretches for thousands of miles like a green dragon all the way across the provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Guangdong. The world-famous Wuyishan National Key Nature Reserve just sits on the highest section on the north of the Mountains. It is the single biggest and the most comprehensive surviving semi-subtropical forest system in the south-east mainland China. It is within the World biosphere Protection Network of the United Nations and is ranked Class-A global nature reserve...

Zhanjiang Mangrove National Nature Reserve

http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_china.htm
The largest mangrove forest wetland reserve in China, located along coastal areas of the Leizhou Peninsula at the southernmost tip of China between the South China Sea and the Tonkin Gulf, adjacent to Hainan Island...

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 [June] - Graham Talbot - Ba Bao Shan

http://www.surfbirds.com/mb/trips/china-gt-1102.html
The reserve of Ba Bao Shan is located approximately 100 Km north west of Shaoguan in northern Guangdong, Southern China. It consists basically of a mountainous area with forested slopes. The tree line extends to approximately 1800m with the largest peak rising to approximately 2000m. The majority of the forest is recent growth however there are a few small areas of prime forest remaining...

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

Panda

http://www.4panda.com/special/bird/tour/520.htm
...Take express bus from Guangzhou (Canton) to Shaoguan, guide meet you at Shaoguan bus station with a paper writing your name, then drive to Reserve Headquater hostel for night...

artists

Photographer - Owen Chiang - Hong Kong Bird Photo Gallery

http://www.pbase.com/bluetitan/wildbirds
I start my bird photo record since Nov 2003. Nearly one year past and I'd setup this bird gallery finally

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