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China Jiangxi

Black-throated Tit Aegithalos concinnus ŠAlister Benn http://www.availablelightimages.com

The provincial capital of Jiangxi is Nanchang.

top sites

Poyang Hu

A huge area of flooded land north of the city of Nanchang. A wintering ground for tens of thousands of duck, geese and cranes. Probably the best and most reliable site in the world for Siberian Crane, with Hooded, White-naped and Red-crowned as a supporting cast. Also great for Oriental Stork, Black-faced Spoonbill and Swan Goose. Mid-November through to early March. (Fog can be a real problem!!)

reserves

Lushan Nature Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21379.htm
Located in the south of Jiujiang City, north of Jiangxi Province, Lushan Nature Reserve covers a total area of 30,466 hectares. The highest peak of Lushan Mountain is 1,474 meters above sea level. Its main protection targets are forest ecosystem, cultural heritages, glacier features and natural landscape. More than 40 species of plants found here are either rare or local special species including Katsura tree, Manglietia fordiana, Chinese tulip and eucommia. Animals under the state protection are leopard, giant salamander, civet, python, pangolin, Hydropotes inermis, muntjac, silver pheasant, white crane, mandarin duck and so on. In addition, there are 26 ancient glacier heritages such as cirque, icehouse and deep valleys. In December1996, the Lushan Reserve was listed as World Nature Heritage.

Poyang Lake Nature Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21379.htm
In southern Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province and at the foot of Lushan Mountain lies Poyang Lake, the biggest freshwater lake in China...

Poyanghu Nature Reserve - Crane Network Site

http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_china.htm
A large freshwater lake subject to seasonal fluctuations, within a region of subtropical, deciduous broad-leaved and evergreen forest surrounded by marshes and wet grassland fed by five major rivers...

Wuyishan National Key Nature Reserve

http://chinavista.com/travel/wuyi/nature.html
The 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...

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!

1989 [December] - Po Yang Lake

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/4004/Po_Yang_trip.html
I was extremely lucky to be able to go and visit this nature reserve in China. I had been voluntering at Mai Po Marsh in Hong Kong and my friend, Mark Bezuijen, worked for the World Wide Fund for Nature. This trip was organised as part of a series of surveys by the WWF on the birds present at the lake...

2005 [April] - Björn Anderson - Wuyishan

http://www.club300.se/Files/TravelReports/JiangxiChina050408.pdf
This was an extended weekend trip with the purpose of seeing Cabots Tragopan. Thanks to professor He Fen-qi in Beijing, who helped me to get in contact with Mr Lin. He is one of the two local birders in Nanchang and knows Wuyishan extremely well. Together with him and his birding colleague Ms Zheng Ying Chun, we spent 2.5 days of brilliant birding on this mountain that is a key birding site in southeast 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

Wings

http://wingsbirds.com
Outstanding among China's birds are its fabulously evocative cranes and we expect to see six species, including majestic Red-crowned Cranes on the edge of the Yellow Sea, rare Black-necked Cranes at Caohai Lake and mythical Siberian, White-naped and Hooded Cranes at Poyang Hu National Nature Reserve, the site of what has been described as "the greatest avian spectacle in Asia."

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