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China Yunnan

Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus ŠAlister Benn http://www.availablelightimages.com/index.html

The provincial capital of Yunnan is Kunming.

useful reading

Birds in Yunnan

Ji Weizhi - 287 pages, illus. Huayu Nature Book Trade Co.Ltd
ISBN: 750384390X
Buy this book from NHBS.com

clubs

Kunming Birdwatching Association

http://www.chinabirdnet.org/kunming.html
Kunming Birdwatching Association (KBA) is managed by Kunming Association for Science and Technology (KAST), and is a community-based organization which aims to protect and to conduct research on birds...

reserves

Bitahai Wetland

http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_china.htm
Provincial Nature Reserve. An alpine wetland between 3,000 and 4,260 meters above sea level, with swamps, lake, peatlands, and adjacent forest cover. The site has very high hydrological values such as flood prevention and control in the key catchment zones of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; as part of the Jinsha River watershed in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, it supplies water to the aquifers and stabilizes the flow in the lower reaches of the Yangtze...

Dashanbao National Nature Reserve

http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_china.htm
A peat moor in subalpine swamp meadows, between 2,210 and 3,364 meters above sea level...

Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21354.htm
There are more than 300 species of birds such as silver pheasants, golden pheasants, peacocks, sunbirds and various Garrulax canorus...

Lashihai Wetland Provincial Nature Reserve

http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_china.htm
A unique plateau freshwater lake with marsh meadows, located between 2,440 and 3,100 meters above sea level at the headwaters of the Yangtze River in the Hengduan Mountains. It is an important migration passage, breeding ground and wintering habitat of nearly 76 species of wild geese and ducks...

Napahai Wetland Provincial Nature Reserve

http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_china.htm
A seasonal karst marsh composed of meadow, open water, peatlands, and surrounding forests situated at about 3,260m above sea level, with lake outflow through karst caves draining underground into the Jinsha River in the upper reaches of the Yangtze...

Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21409.htm
The Reserve boasts 539 species of terrestrial vertebrate which accounts for 25% of the total in China, 429 species of birds, 36% of the total, 47 species of amphibians, 68 species of reptiles and 100 species of fish...

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!

2001 [February] - Steve Bale

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/china/yunnan/yunnan-feb2001.htm
The direct translation of Yunnan is south of the clouds - a tribute to the marvelous year-round climate. A look at the distribution maps of Chinese birds suggests that this province is also blessed with huge potential for year-round birding...

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...

2004 [November] - Björn Anderson - Western Yunnan

http://www.club300.se/Files/TravelReports/Yunnan0411-BA.pdf
Western Yunnan is a part of China that surprisingly seldom is visited by birders. Yet, it yields a large number of difficult to see species and shares the avifauna with Myanmar (Burma) and the easternmost Himalayas. Under the experienced leadership of Jesper Hornskov, we were three birders who enjoyed a wealth of unusual babblers and other gems in this tucked away corner of the world. Myself and Stig-Uno Svensson only had the time to stay for the first 1.5 weeks, but Brian Elder and Jesper carried on for another few days...

2006 [December] - Björn Anderson - Ruili

http://www.club300.se/Files/TravelReports/RuiliYunnan2006_BA.pdf
This was intended as a brief visit to Ruili with the purpose of picking up a couple of previously missed birds. Rufous-necked Laughingthrush and Pale-footed Bush-Warbler were the key targets, while I also spent time looking for Rufous-headed Parrotbill and Yellow-vented Warbler as bonuses. This was my forth trip to this bird-rich province of southwestern China...

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...

2007 [January] - Björn Anderson - Baihualing & Gaoligongshan

http://www.club300.se/Files/TravelReports/Yunnan2007_BA.pdf
This was my third visit to this excellent site in western Yunnan and the target was to find the extremely seldom-seen Cachar Wedge-billed Babbler. The species is most certainly different from the Sikkim Wedge-billed Babbler and there are very few sightings of it from anywhere. The song was unknown until one year ago and there had been a few sightings of it at Baihualing in recent years...

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...

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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