Eastern China Birding Tour Report

15 Feb–1 Mar 2025 (15 days)

Bird guides : Summer Wong ( Wang Wenjuan ), Wang Wenbin

Participants: Mads Peder Elley, Tina Ninka Elley, Thomas Pedersen, Erik Bjerrehave, Eric Schaumburg, Henriette Strom, Gert Jeppesen, John Frikke

Reed Parrotbill photographed in Feb 2025 in Shanghai, Eastern China, during a birding tour guided by Summer Wong

Reed Parrotbill © Wang Wenbin 2025

Birding spots on this winter eastern China tour: Shanghai, Wuyuan, Poyang Lake, Dongzhai, Emei Feng, Mingxi, Sanming, Fuzhou

On our private 15-day Eastern China birding tour from 15 Feb to 1 Mar, 2025 , we recorded 221 species, including 7 endemics, along with other highlight birds such as:

Cabot’s Tragopan (E), Silver Pheasant, Koklass Pheasant, Elliot’s Pheasant (E), White-necklaced Partridge (E), Pied Falconet, Scaly-sided Merganser, Crested Ibis, Reed Parrotbill, Baer’s Pochard, Siberian Crane, Common Crane, Hooded Crane, White-naped Crane, Blyth’s Kingfisher, Chinese Barbet (E), White-eared Night Heron, Grey-sided Scimitar Babbler (E), Mandarin Duck, Silver-throated Bushtit (E), Chinese Penduline Tit, Sultan Tit, Yellow-cheeked Tit, Chinese Hwamei, Masked Laughingthrush, Red-headed Trogon, Black-faced Spoonbill, Dusky Fulvetta, Huet’s Fulvetta, Indochinese Yuhina, Chinese Blackbird (E), Chinese Grosbeak, White’s Thrush, Yellow-browed Bunting, Pallas’s Reed Bunting, Tristram’s Bunting, Saunders’s Gull

15 Feb–1 Mar 2025 (15 days) winter eastern China trip bird list : https://ebird.org/tripreport/342612

Checklists based on birding spots and dates: https://ebird.org/tripreport/342612?view=checklists

Sensitive species recorded during the tour but not included in the public ebird trip list: Red-billed Blue-Magpie, Chinese Hwamei