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China Hainan

Plain Prinia Prinia inornata ŠAlister Benn http://www.availablelightimages.com

The provincial capital of Hainan is Haikou.

useful information

Provincial Bird

Hainan Hill Partridge Arborophola ardens

reserves

Dongzhaigang Nature Reserve

http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_china.htm
Small shallow sea bay of extensive intertidal mudflats and mangrove swamps. The swamps are important feeding and nursery areas for waterbirds...

Dongzhaigang Nature Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21379.htm
...there are 159 species of birds such as egrets and ducks in the Reserve. Dongzhaigang is also the good habitat of marine animals, mainly including fish, shrimps, and shellfish such as sipunculid worm, perch and oyster...

Sanya Coral Reef Nature Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21379.htm
The seawater there is limpid and transparent, and in the water there are more than 100 species of reef corals...

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!

2005 [January] - Björn Anderson - Bawangling

http://www.club300.se/Files/TravelReports/Bawangling,Hainan0501-BA.pdf
A weekend trip with the purpose of seeing Hainan Hill-Partridge and Hainan Peacock-Pheasant. Given all the trouble I had with logistics and inflexible reserve staff, I counted myself lucky to see the former species. The Peacock-Pheasant is very difficult to find during the winter and I could not find any sign of it during a total of seven hours spent at the best sites and known territories...

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...

Yearly report from Bawangling National Park

http://www.birdforum.net/archive/index.php/t-54599
The past weeks a major wildlife survey has been carried out in the Bawangling national park on Hainan, a Chinese/Vietnamese has documented the fauna and flora of this, so far poorly known park...