Tibetan Plateau Birding Tour Report

2025 July 14-25

Bird guides : Summer Wong (Wenjuan Wang) & Kexin Peng

Participants: Martin Scott, Max Baumgartn, Nicholias Lindsay, Simon Tonge, Frank Rietkerk, Stuart Mc Kee, Garry Armstrong, David Steele, David Pallash, Markus Craig, Lieyong Gu, Wei Wang

Tibetan Bunting photographed in July 2025 in Qinghai, China, during a birding tour guided by Summer Wong

Tibetan Bunting © Summer Wong, 2025 July

Birding spots on this tour: Xining, Gonghe, Maduo, Nangqian, Qumalai, Golmud, Dulan, Wulan, Chaka, Qinghaihu Lake

On our scheduled 12-day Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau birding tour from July 14–25, 2025, we recorded 183 species, including 19 endemics, along with other highlight birds such as:

Przevalski’s Partridge (E), Three-banded Rosefinch (E), Przevalski’s Finch (E), Tibetan Rosefinch (E), Plain Laughingthrush (E), Tarim Babbler (E), White Eared Pheasant (E), Tibetan Snowfinch (E), Crested Tit-warbler (E), Gansu Leaf Warbler (E), Przevalski’s Redstart (E), Tibetan Babax (E), White-browed Tit (E), Sichuan Tit (E), Elliot’s Laughingthrush (E), Ground Tit (E), Giant Laughingthrush (E), Tibetan Bunting (E), Salim Ali’s Swift (E), Pale Rosefinch, Güldenstädt’s Redstart, Streaked Rosefinch, Great Rosefinch, Wallcreeper, Snowy-browed Nuthatch/ Chinese Nuthatch, Blanford’s Snowfinch, Pere David’s Snowfinch, Rufous-necked Snowfinch, White-rumped Snowfinch, Mongolian Lark, Tibetan Lark, Black-necked Crane, Tibetan Partridge, Szechenyi’s Monal-Partridge, Ibisbill, White-browed Tit Warbler, Tibetan Sand Plover, Mongolian Ground Jay, Pine Bunting, Daurian Partridge, Pallas’s Fish Eagle, Saker Falcon

2025 July 14-25 Qinghai Tibetan Plateau trip bird list with photos: https://ebird.org/tripreport/395755

Sensitive species recorded during the tour but not included in the public ebird trip list: Saker Falcon, Mongolian Lark