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Species formerly referred to as P. One recent study found that this species was sister to P. perdix , and also that race przewalskii (sometimes subsumed within suschkini , but generally paler) was basal to other taxa included within the present species. barbata , but present name has priority. So, I later looked this up.

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Like many birding locations in China, it has been somewhat under birded in the past 18 months or so, as travel restrictions have kept most foreigners away and only some of the younger Chinese birders actively use eBird. It is hard to see any scientific value in defining a bird species as a country endemic. Progress of sorts, I guess.

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What is your favorite bird species? The whole of China How long have you been a bird guide? Reeve’s Pheasant What is your name, and where do you live? Steven An, I live in Nanjing City. What are the main regions or locations you cover as a bird guide? 15 years How did you get into bird guiding?

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As often in China, the choice seems to be between terrible infrastructure and almost no people or great roads accompanied by caravans of tour buses. If ever birds will get into the habit of having Halloween parties, this species will not have to spend resources on costumes. However, leaf warblers still look all the same to me.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Located about 2 hours from Xining by car, Qinghai Lake is China’s largest lake. Pallas’s Gull also breeds at Qinghai Lake, though the numbers are sadly much reduced: “The numbers breeding at L Qinghai, China, has apparently fallen from > 87,000 in 1970s to c. 15,000 in 2006” (HBW). I cannot understand why.

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What is your favorite bird species? I am Zhang Lin, living in Shanghai, China What are the main regions or locations you cover as a bird guide? Eastern China, Sichuan, etc How long have you been a bird guide? That would be the Spoon-billed Sandpiper What is your name, and where do you live? 18 years How did… Source

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

To say that an update of John MacKinnon’s “A Field Guide to the Birds of China” (2000) has been highly anticipated by birders interested in Chinese birds is almost an understatement. While there are some decent Chinese-language guides, they are of limited use for (local) illiterates like me.

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Spoon-billed Sandpiper at Tiaozini, Jiangsu, China. The Spoon-billed Sandpiper is probably the most iconic bird species in China – to the point that some bird guides I know are quite tired of looking for it. And yet, I have now birded China for almost 5 years without ever really trying to see one.

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What is your favorite bird species? Sid Francis Dujiangyuan, Sichuan, China Black-necked Crane What are the main regions or locations you cover as a bird guide? Crested Tit-warbler, Leptopoecile elegans What is your name, and where do you live?

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The HBW even mentions the importance of Ruoergai for this species: “Key sites for migrants include the Ruoergai Plateau (China), which is also an important breeding area” Common Mergansers also seem to use these wetlands as breeding area. The post Birding Ruoergai, Sichuan, China appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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In China, wherever there is one real tourist attraction (like the Great Wall), the local strategy seems to be to add some fake attractions – replicas of palaces or tombs, amusement parks, shopping centers – in order to maximize the income from tourists. Sir James McGrigor (1771-1858) Director Gen.

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Unfortunately, sometimes this strategy fails, when even the best two out of 100 photos of a species still are not very good. The post Birding Gonggangling and Dujiangyan, Sichuan, China appeared first on 10,000 Birds. I present to you: Chinese Fulvetta. A White-throated Redstart gave me an easier time.

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JULY 11, 2019

I suspect the bird was looking for conspecifics, as the other times I encountered the species they always seemed to show up in slightly larger groups. The post Amur Paradise Flycatcher in Jixi, Anhui, China appeared first on 10,000 Birds. A village about 1.5 Red-billed Blue Magpie. Collared Finchbill. Ashy Drongo. Red-billed Starling.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Quite a few bird species have crests. Their main use is to display – either to communicate with other members of the species or to scare other species, as a raised crest makes the bird appear larger. In fact, crests occur in at least 20 of the 30 orders of extant birds, and in all major groups of passerines.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The Spring Festival – or Chinese New Year – is a big period for traveling in China. This species seems to enjoy being in mixed flocks with the White-shouldered Starling. While not on the scale of bird migration, it is routinely and somewhat lazily described as the biggest annual migration of humans in the world.

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Or would be, had I encountered more of them – so far, I have seen only a very small share of the approximately 233 woodpecker species, and got decent photos of an even smaller number – not much more than 10% of all of them. T he Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tengchong, China) is a tiny bit bigger and looks much soberer.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The Purple Swamphen now is considered a superspecies, with each of its six races are designated full species – and in the strange world of birding, a superspecies is rather less than a species, not more. This is despite the most likely African origin of the species. Swamphen yes, but Grey-headed? Again: Grey-headed?

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High up at almost 4500 meters, some Alpine Accentors were posing in the sunshine, justifying the description in the HBW as “large, attractive accentor” (though eBird seems to disagree, instead characterizing the species as a “stocky, stout, and unobtrusive bird”). I side with the HBW on this issue.

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The UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in Geneva voted in favour of China becoming a licensed importer. It will allow China to bid for more than 100 tonnes of ivory stockpiled in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe through culling and natural deaths.

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JUNE 13, 2019

These days, quite a few species are breeding at Nanhui, Shanghai. But not all species do this in such a spectacular fashion as the Barn Swallow. One would think that this is not easy for a relatively colorful species as the Barn Swallow. The post Air Show at Nanhui, Shanghai, China appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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JULY 13, 2009

From the China Daily. Eating wild animals is also a traditional practice in southern China. Illegal trade in tiger meat and bones is also alive, continuing to threaten the extinction of an already depleted species, he said. The Chinese want them for exotic foods and for medicine.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A nicer name for the species is Chinese Painted Quail (since when are kings so diminutive in size?). Quite successfully, it turned out (note: to be honest, successful does not mean that I found the birds but that somebody else found them and I got to see them as well). The King Quail is cute and surprisingly small.

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MARCH 6, 2022

The first four were seen in Trinidad and Tobago and the last in China. The Collaborative’s all-time country with the most species observed is Costa Rica , with 784 species, out of 911 observed on eBird overall! Costa Rica has 1,264 hotspots , and the top hotspot ( Rancho Naturalista ) has a remarkable 517 species observed.

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And here in Europe, they are the real deal, an indigenous species and not domesticated animals gone wild. Annex II of the Bern Convention lists 45 of Beljarica’s bird species, with a further 91 species in Annex III. Finally, 24 species in Annex I of the EU Bird Directive were recorded in this area.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

And here I've been yelling at China all this time. (Be Tags: wildlife trafficking us endangered species. Be warned there's a horrific picture of a cooked monkey head in this article.) From Alternet.org. The United States is one of the world's largest, if not the largest, consuming nations for wildlife products.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

China is not that well-known for its hornbills, but in Yunnan province, on the border to Myanmar, some species can be found.

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A typical description of the family is that of “a tropical African and Asian songbird that typically has a melodious voice and drab plumage”, another is “small, dull-colored passerine birds of Asia and Africa”, yet another states that they are “often rather plain” Individual species get even harsher reviews.

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MARCH 23, 2014

Big news about a small bird broke earlier this month when bird researchers from several nations announced that the species formerly known as Spotted Wren-Babbler ( Spelaeornis formosus ) — a tiny, secretive bird of montane forests from the eastern Himalayas to southeast China — is not a Spelaeornis wren-babbler at all.

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In 2022, the 10,000 Birds eBird Collaborative submitted 1,837 checklists from 9 countries ( Australia , China , Costa Rica , Mexico , Saint Lucia , Serbia , Trinidad and Tobago , United Kingdom , and the United States ) and observed 1,273 species. The Collaborative life list increased to 4,140.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

So, I asked around and was told that Qinghai is the place to go to for birds in China in August. Similarly, the Alpine Leaf Warbler is one of the more attractive species in an otherwise almost indistinguishable family of identical leaf warblers. (“But the difference in wing bars, Kai!”). of the Large-billed Crow.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

It is now almost exactly two years that I last was outside of China. At some point, my stock of memories of birds seen outside of China will be used up, I am afraid. While I write this, the vessel is on a trip from Shekou, China to Callao, Peru, presumably to pick up some ore, most likely copper ore.

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MARCH 31, 2022

While I am still not so sure about China’s sense of humor – though admittedly, the issue is mostly a mismatch between what I think is funny and what the average Chinese thinks is funny, an issue that I have had in other countries as well – the country sure has its fair share of Laughingthrushes. This post shows some of them.

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JUNE 27, 2019

For a German living in China, bird names have some additional complexities. However, I know almost none of the German names of the birds here and am even a bit surprised there apparently is a German name for each species (I cannot imagine there is too much use for German names of some purely Asian species).

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Both species are endangered and it is illegal to cross breed them. Cross-breeding two protected species is completely against nature. Tags: zoos taiwan tigers lion endangered species. One died and the other two were seized for sheltering at a research institution. From Focus Taiwan.

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APRIL 27, 2023

Yibin is a typical smallish Chinese city (which in China means slightly above 850,000 people in the metro area, which would make it the fifth-biggest city in Germany but does not get it into the top 100 in China). The Latin species name alphonsiana refers to Prof. What a pity.) And it doesn’t even have a forked tail.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

If you want to pretend to combine learning Mandarin and learning about this species, watch this video. There is also the usual article about the first sighting of the species at a new location. If you want to guess the name of this species, please follow my instructions. How exciting. Take out a magnifying glass. Here they are.

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MARCH 21, 2022

Jianfengling National Forest Park is a park in the West of Hainan – the tourist websites claim that it is “the largest and best-preserved tropical original forest in China”, which – if true – is a rather sad statement given the wide inroads that commercial agriculture has made into the park. But then, who knows?

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