Sichuan Birding Tour Report

2025 May 22-June 10

Bird guide : Summer Wong (Wenjuan Wang)

Participants: Robin Arnold, Kimberly Arnold, Daniel Chesterman, Sarah Holman

Temminck's Tragopan photographed in May 2025 at Tanshi Village, Sichuan

Temminck’s Tragopan © Summer Wong

Birding spots on this tour: Chengdu Qinglong Lake, Dujiangyan, Pingwu, Chuanzhusi ( Gonggangling forest ), Ruoergai ( Baxi forest & Flower Lake), Maerkang ( Mengbishan ), Wolong ( Balangshan ), Wawushan NP, Labahe NR, Erlangshan NR, Longcanggou NR, Hailuogou NP, Pingshan (Tanshi Village)

We skipped Kangding because there was a wedding in the village, and they weren’t accepting any birders that week.

On our private Sichuan birding tour from May 22 to June 10, 2025, we recorded 290 species, including 35 endemics, along with other breeding endemics, near-endemics, and highlight birds such as:

16 species of pheasants: Chinese Monal (E), White-eared Pheasant (E), Blue-eared Pheasant (E), Lady Amherst’s Pheasant, Golden Pheasant (E), Temminck’s Tragopan, Verreaux’s/Chestnut-throated Monal-partridge (E), Tibetan Partridge, Chinese Grouse (E), Tibetan Snowcock, Blood Pheasant, Sichuan Partridge (E), Silver Pheasant, Koklass Pheasant (heard), Chinese Bamboo Partridge, Common Pheasant

10 species of parrotbills: Grey-hooded Parrotbill (E), Spectacled Parrotbill (E), Golden Parrotbill, Fulvous Parrotbill, Great Parrotbill, Brown Parrotbill, Spot-breasted Parrotbill, Ashy-throated Parrotbill, Vinous-throated Parrotbill, Three-toed Parrotbill (E)

Tawny Fish Owl, Grandala, Snowy-cheeked Laughingthrush(E), Plain/Pere David’s Laughingthrush(E), Elliot’s Laughingthrush (E), Barred Laughingthrush (E), Giant Laughingthrush (E), Emei Shan Liocichla (E), Buffy Laughingthrush (E), Black-faced Laughingthrush, Red-winged Laughingthrush, Spotted Laughingthrush, Chinese Babax, Salim Ali’s Swift (E), Tibetan Lark, Black-necked Crane, Saker Falcon, Chinese Rubythroat, Siberian Rubythroat, Firethroat, Przevalski’s Finch/Pinktail (E), Three-banded Rosefinch (E), Blanford’s Rosefinch, Chinese White-browed Rosefinch, Himalayan Beautiful Rosefinch, Pink-rumped Rosefinch, Vinaceous Rosefinch, Sharpe’s Rosefinch, Chinese Long-tailed Rosefinch (E), White-bellied Redstart, Indian Blue Robin, Golden Bush Robin, White-browed Bush Robin, Slaty-backed Flycatcher, Chinese Blue Flycatcher, Pere David’s Tit (E), Sichuan Tit (E), White-browed Tit (E), Yellow-bellied Tit (E), Fire-capped Tit , Ground Tit (E), Giant Grey Shrike, Tiger Shrike, Snow Pigeon, Speckled Wood Pigeon, Rufous-bellied Woodpecker, Darjeeling Woodpecker, Necklaced Woodpecker, Brown Bullfinch, Gray-headed Bullfinch, Chinese Nuthatch, Przevalski’s Nuthatch, Hodgson’s Treecreeper, Sichuan Treecreeper (E), Gold-fronted Fulvetta (E), Chinese Fulvetta(E, heard), Golden-breasted Fulvetta, Spectacled Fulvetta, White-browed Tit Warbler, Crested Tit Warbler(E), Maroon-backed Accentor, Scaly-breasted Cupwing, Yellow-streaked Warbler, Bianchi’s Warbler, Marten’s Warbler, Grey-crowned Warbler, Alstrom’s Warbler, Emei Leaf Warbler (E), Sichuan Leaf Warbler, Alpine/Tickell’s Leaf Warbler , Humes Leaf Warbler, Claudia’s Leaf Warbler, Kloss’s Leaf Warbler, Chinese Leaf Warbler, Sichuan Bush Warbler (E), Brown Bush Warbler, Grey-sided Bush Warbler, Chestnut-crowned Bush Warbler, Sichuan Forest Thrush, Chinese Blackbird (E), Rufous-necked Snowfinch, White-rumped Snowfinch, Black-streaked Scimitar Babbler, Moupinia/ Rufous-tailed Babbler (E), Slaty Bunting (E)

2025 May 22-June 10 Sichuan bird tour list with photos: https://ebird.org/tripreport/383994

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