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China Qinghai

Kessler’s Thrush Turdus kessleri ©Alister Benn http://www.availablelightimages.com

Xining is the provincial capital of Qinghai.

useful information

Provincial Bird

Black-necked Crane Grus nigricollis

reserves

Eling Lake Reserve

http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_china.htm
The largest freshwater lake in the Yellow River catchment with high hydrological values, regulating run-offs, retaining sediments, maintaining water quality, and preventing flooding. At over 4,200 meters on semi-arid plateau, the lake is an important habitat for the globally endangered Grus nigricollis...

Kekexili Nature Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21379.htm
Located in the boundaries of Zhiduo County and Qumalai County of Qinghai Province, Kekexili Nature Reserve covers an area of 4.5 million hectares...

Niaodao [Bird Island] Nature Reserve

http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_china.htm
The lake, centered on an island, is fed by two rivers and numerous smaller rivers originating from mountain snow melt. Marshes are both brackish and fresh, along which a rich alpine meadow community thrives. The site is extremely important for numerous species of breeding birds...

Qinghai Lake Nature Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21379.htm
The main protection targets are rare birds and plateau wetland ecosystem...

Zhaling Lake Nature Reserve

http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_china.htm
unique plateau freshwater wetland at high altitude (4,273m asl) with marsh meadow and alpine vegetations, with the second largest lake in the sources of the Yellow River...

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 can’t find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page… give them a try!

2005 [June] - George Wagner

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/china/Tibet1/tibet-2005.htm
...The mystical land of Tibet holds many attractions to westerners. Many come to visit the monasteries, its people, and the stark landscape. In June of 2005, I went there to see the birds of the Tibetan plateau. Traditional Tibet is now split among four Chinese governmental provinces. This trip report covers birding areas I visited the two largest Tibetan provinces – Xizang and Qinghai. These two provinces constitute most of traditional Tibet and hold nearly all of the birds associated with the Tibetan Plateau...

2005 [June] - Mr. Tang Jun, Ms Dang Rong &Mr. Dong Xiaohe - SE of Qinghai/Tibet Plateau

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/chinatibettravel/qinghai-june-05.htm
I think this is probably the first birding report from this area by a local Chinese people. So it should be good to let the birders worldwide have more view of birds of this area from a Chinese viewpoint...

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

China Birding Tour

http://www.infohub.com/travel/sit/sit_pages/13032.html
China Birding is a travel company based in China, Chengdu and Tibet.We do tailor made itineraries for any bird watchers who have an interest in the birds of China: Qinghaai, Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet. We have the experience. We can do tour arrangements for individuals or for for birding travel companys visiting China. We can arrange all your hotels, travel and guiding...

Oriental Bird Club

http://www.orientalbirdclub.org/news/index.html
Next trip planned for 2008

Wings

http://wingsbirds.com/tours/view/75
Northern China: Manchuria and the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau...

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