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Tibet

Large Niltava Niltava grandis ŠLaurence Poh http://www.laurencepoh.com/

Tibet is consider to be a province; Xizang by the Chinese Republic - for a different perspective look at the Xizand page off the China page...

numbers

Number of bird species:561

numbers

Number of endemics:1
Sillem`s Mountain-Finch Leucosticte sillemi

useful reading

* Field Guides & Bird Song

For a comprehensive list of recommended titles covering Asia as a whole - please see the Asia page of Fatbirder

A Field Guide to the Birds of China, Tibet and Taiwan

Paul Leader, Geoff Carey and Phil Round c. 600 pages, 120 col plates, maps. Christopher Helm 2007
ISBN: 9780713660326
Buy this book from NHBS.com

A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia

Craig Robson Hardcover - 504 pages ( 1 February, 2000) New Holland Publishers (UK)
ISBN: 1843307464
Buy this book from NHBS.com

useful information

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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 [May] - Steve Bale

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/china/tibet/tibet2001.htm
This was not a birding trip, as such. My wife and I joined a tour group, organised by the Tibetan Tourist Bureau in Shanghai, (the only official way a foreigner living in Shanghai is allowed into Tibet). The itinerary, therefore, was focused on Tibetan culture and not Tibetan birds. I broke away from the group at every opportunity typically birding the area outside the respective monastery, while the group (including my wife) toured the inside...

2005 [July] - Hannu Jannes

http://www.birdquest.co.uk/tripreports.cfm?trip=442
...Despite all my worries, everything went very well and our long journey through the breathtakingly beautiful highlands produced 201 species...

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...

2006 [November] - Jesper Hornskov

http://www.netfugl.dk/trip_reports/asia/MammalTrip_2006_JesperHornskov.pdf
pdf

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

Bird Watching Tours

http://www.4panda.com/special/bird/index.htm

Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

http://www.china.org.cn/english/scitech/88461.htm
There are 370 kinds of birds on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, of which, 30 are under top government protection...