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China Guizhou

White-capped Water Redstart Chaimarrornis leucocephalus ŠAlister Benn http://www.availablelightimages.com

The provincial capital of Guizhou is Guiyang.

reserves

Caohai Lake

http://www.4panda.com/guizhou/caihai.htm
The Caohai lake is the largest fresh water karst lake in Northwest Guizhou, rectangular shaped, it occupies an area of 200 sq km with vast-stretching wetland full of waterweeds and grass. Rich aquatic plants and mild weather provide birds with an excellent habitat. The black-neck crane, the sole surviver of the world's plateau fowls, usually comes to the Caohai lake for winter after it breeds in Qinghai Lake...

Fanjing Mountain National Nature Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21344.htm
Fanjing Mountain provides an ideal habitation area for rare birds and animals. 304 species of vertebrate were identified here in the Reserve, including 57 species of animals, 173 species of birds, 34 species of amphibians and 40 species of reptiles...

Maolan National Nature Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21369.htm
This dense primitive forest is also an ideal home for wildlife such as rhesus monkeys, musk deer, South China tigers, various amphibians, reptiles, silver pheasant and insects, which are all under the state protection...

Mount Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve

http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/guizhou/tongren/fanjingshan.htm
Mt. Fanjingshan is believed to include the best preserved virgin forest of any area at this latitude on earth...

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 [January] - Steve Bale

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/china/china2/china.htm
Winter birding in eastern and south-western China...

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...

Panda

http://www.4panda.com/guizhou/caihai.htm
Birding Tour to Guizhou Caohai Lake for Birder to Watch Birds

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