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China Sichuan

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The provincial capital of Sichuan is Chengdu.

clubs

Chengdu Bird Watching Society

http://www.chinabirdnet.org/chengdu.html
CDBWS is active throughout Sichuan Province and in other parts of western China...

Chengdu Bird Watching Society

http://www.wwfchina.org/bbs/chengdu.htm
Room 1-18, 4th Building, No 11 Qinyang Bei Lu, Cheng Du, China. Postal code: 610072 Contact no.:028-87761106 E-mail: chengdubirds@sina.com

reserves

Huanglong National Nature Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21359.htm
Biodiversity is very rich in the Reserve. Tall arbors and shrubs, vines, herbs and moss constitute a harmonious picture...

Huanglong National Nature Reserve

http://www.chinagiantpanda.com/site/huanglong.htm
...there are 59 mammals (six orders and 18 families); 155 birds (12 orders and 29 families); five reptiles (two orders and three families); five amphibians (two orders and four families) and two fish species. A large number of the species listed are threatened at the national and international level...

Jiuzhaigou National Nature Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21364.htm
The Reserve is not only rich in plants but also in animal species, among which there are rare species such as giant pandas, golden monkeys, Takins, lesser pandas, otters and swans...

Wanglang Nature Reserve

http://www.slack.net/~rd/wanglang/home.htm
Wanglang Nature Reserve, established in 1963 by the Sichuan Forestry Bureau, is located in the Minshan Mountains in some of China`s most important panda habitat...

Wolong National Nature Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21399.htm
In the Reserve there are over 50 species of animals and 300 species of birds. The number of giant pandas here approximately accounts for one tenth of the total, and therefore Wolong National Nature Reserve is also identified as homeland of giant pandas...

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!

1991 [February] - Mike Kilburn - Emei Shan

http://www.worldtwitch.com/emei_shan_kilburn.htm
Its a Buddhist holy mountain in Central Sichuan Province with good primary and secondary forest, deep river gorges as well as rhododendrons, and firs towards the summit. Patches of forest have been cleared for farming below Wannian Si. This arable land holds some birds and is easier going than the forest...

2001 [June] - Ron Hoff

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/china/sichuan/sichuanjune2001.htm
My wife, Dollyann Myers, and I joined our friends Frank Bills and his wife, Sharon Bostick, for a 4 week birding trip to the province of Sichuan in the central southern part of the People`s Republic of China. We arranged the tour through the China Golden Bridge Travel Sichuan Company. Our contact there was Luo Kaiyue gbtlky@mail.sc.cninfo.net who goes by the English name of Joshua. Joshua is the person who arranges all the logistics for the Birdquest tours to China, so he is very familiar with the proper locations to go to and which hotels to use, etc...

2003 [July] - Frank E Rheindt

http://www.worldtwitch.com/china_rheindt.htm
...into some open areas with dwarf-like bamboo, where I saw Brown Parrotbills, Dark-rumped Rosefinches, Golden Bush-Robins, White-winged Grosbeaks and otherwordly Great Parrotbills, besides the tireless Spotted Bush-Warbler singing from distant shrub...

2005 [April] - Edward C Hall

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/china/china4/china-mar-05.htm
During the course of an OAT tour of China, I took every opportunity to break away for birding. Following are some suggestions as to where others might productively visit. These suggestions reflect, of course, the time of year that I was there and may not be as applicable to other seasons...

2005 [July] - Björn Anderson - Emei Shan

http://www.club300.se/Files/TravelReports/Emei%20Shan,China-0507.pdf
Yet another short trip to this famous birdy mountain. My initial target for the extended weekend was to do more exciting birding than Emei, but as it turned out those plans failed with short notice. Emeishan has the advantage that it is easy to get to, no permits are required, and no local transport needs to be prearranged. The choice was therefore fairly easy and I still had a couple of target birds to connect with. Moustached Laughingthrush and Green Shrike-Babbler, both being fairly widespread across China, but still not so frequently recorded, especially the former. I decided to spend as much time as possible at mid to low altitudes and eventually tallied a good selection of typical Emei species...

2005 [May] - Mark Van Beirs

http://www.birdquest.co.uk/tripreports.cfm?trip=364
...The Bird of the Trip was without any doubt the fabulous Lady Amhersts Pheasant that we saw so well in its bamboo-choked forest. Other highlights included Severtzovs Grouse, Snow Partridge, Tibetan Snowcock, Blood Pheasant, Temmincks Tragopan, White Eared and Blue Eared Pheasants, Black-necked Crane, White-tailed Rubythroat, Rufous-headed Robin, Firethroat, Grandala, Severtzovs Tit-Warbler, Three-toed, Grey-hooded and Fulvous Parrotbills, Sukatschevs, Giant and Red-winged Laughingthrushes, Black-browed, White-browed and Pčre Davids Tits, Przevalskis Nuthatch, Sichuan Jay and Humes Groundpecker. Quality mammals included Alpine Musk Deer and Chinese Goral...

2006 [April] - Tang Jun

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/chinatibettravel/sichuan-report-2006.htm
...Steve and Diane arrival at Chengdu via Seoul very late, and drive to Huan Hua Hotel where just located at the gate of Huan Hua Park, the park is the start of birding for Sichuan area. Mr. & Mrs. Rose like the hotel as they saw Mrs. Goulds Sunbird just in the yard of the hotel on the way to breakfast the next morning...

2006 [December] - John & Jemi Holmes

http://www.travellingbirder.com/tripreports/reports/2006_12_yn_sc.pdf
We were interested to look for White-speckled Laughingthrush Garrulax bieti near Sichuan where Ben King found it in 1989. Jemi was keen also to visit Lugu Lake, famous site in Northern Yunnan. As Muli and Lugu Lake look close on the map, seemed a good starting point for a trip. Later we visited Luoji Shan near Xichang Sichuan and then travelled across country eastwards to Zhaotong in northeast Yunnan, centre of the main wintering sites of the Chinese populations of Black-necked Crane...

2006 [June] - Remco Hofland

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/china/china-7/sichuan-05-06.htm
Highlights: Chinese Bamboo-Partridge, Tibetan Snowcock, Snow Partridge, Lady Amherst's, Golden, Blood, Koklass & White Eared-Pheasant, Chinese Grouse, Chinese Monal; Emei Liocichla, Rusty, Elliott's, Black-faced, White-browed, Giant, Spotted, Moustached, Red-winged & White-throated Laughingthrush, Chinese Babax and Hwamei; 8 species of parrotbill, Purple Cochoa, Firethroat, 14 species of Phylloscopus warbler, Crested Tit-warbler, 8 species of rosefinch (incl stunners like Vinaceous and Three-banded) and Crimson-browed Finch. Personal top-3 (RH): Purple Cochoa, Tibetan Snowcock, Snow Partridge...

2006 [November] - John & Jemi Holmes

http://www.travellingbirder.com/tripreports/reports/2006_11_sichuan.pdf
...The commonest fulvetta was Streak-throated, but we saw a few Chinese Fulvettas as well as having best-ever views of Crimson-breasted Woodpecker in a mixed flock. Other highlights included a single White-cheeked Nuthatch (race przewalskii) and a party of twenty Spectacled Parrotbills. A mammal highlight was a large female wild boar with a couple of medium-sized young...

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...

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...

Sunbirds

http://www.sunbirdtours.co.uk/sichuan.htm
Sichuan province, right in the heart of the Middle Kingdom, is a fabulously bird-rich region, home to the bulk of China's endemic birds and the majority of its Giant Pandas...

Wings

http://wingsbirds.com/tours/view/76
Sichuan province, right in the heart of the Middle Kingdom, is a fabulously bird-rich region home to the bulk of China's endemic birds (and the majority of its Giant Pandas!). On this new tour we'll concentrate on seeing the endemic and near-endemic species as well as sampling the superb food, genuine hospitality and dramatic scenery for which the region is rightly famous...

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