Eastern China Birding Tour Report

2–21 Mar 2025 (20 days)

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

Participants: Peter Boesman, Mark Van Beirs

Cabot's Tragopan photographed in March 2025 in Fujian, Eastern China, during a birding tour guided by Summer Wong

Cabot’s Tragopan © Summer Wong 2025

Birding spots on this tour: Shanghai, Wuyuan, Poyang Lake, Huoshan, Dongzhai, Emei Feng, Mingxi, Sanming, Fuzhou, Hainan Island – Jianfengling, Danzhou

On our private 20-day Eastern China birding tour from 2 – 21 Mar 2025 , we recorded 251 species, including 10 endemics, along with other highlight birds such as:

Cabot’s Tragopan (E), Reeves’s Pheasant (E), Silver Pheasant, Koklass Pheasant, Elliot’s Pheasant (E), White-necklaced Partridge (E, heard only), Hainan Peacock Pheasant (E), Hainan Partridge (E), Pied Falconet, Scaly-sided Merganser, Crested Ibis, Reed Parrotbill, Short-tailed Parrotbill, Baer’s Pochard, Siberian Crane, Common Crane, Hooded Crane, White-naped Crane, Blyth’s Kingfisher, Chinese Barbet (E), Spotted Elachura, White-eared Night Heron, Grey-sided Scimitar Babbler (E), Mandarin Duck, Manchurian Bush Warbler, Hainan Leaf Warbler (E), Hainan Blue Flycatcher, Yellow-billed Nuthatch, Marsh Grassbird, Chinese Penduline Tit, Sultan Tit, Rufous-cheeked Laughingthrush, Chinese Hwamei, Spot-necked Babbler, Masked Laughingthrush, Black-throated Laughingthrush, Red-headed Trogon, Pale Blue Flycatcher, Large Scimitar Babbler, Ratchet-tailed Treepie, Indochinese Green Magpie, Eastern Grass Owl, Eastern Barn Owl, Oriental Bay Owl, King Quail, Barred Buttonquail, 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, Painted Snipe, Saunders’s Gull, Pale-capped Pigeon

2–21 Mar 2025 (20 days) Winter Eastern China trip bird list https://ebird.org/tripreport/343386

Checklists based on birding spots and dates: https://ebird.org/tripreport/343386?view=checklists

Sensitive species recorded during the tour but not included in the public ebird trip list: Hainan Peacock-Pheasant, Eastern Barn Owl, Oriental Bay-Owl, Red-billed Blue-Magpie, Chinese Hwamei, Black-throated Laughingthrush