Pallas's Sandgrouse and Mute Swan in Beijing (1 Viewer)

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Shi Jin

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• Dec 4, 2009

• #1

Sorry for not posting this earlier, but better late than never I suppose.

There was a flock of 80 Pallas's Sandgrouse at Wild Duck Lake on Saturday.

Other birds of note there:

A flock of 30+ Mongolian larks
50+ Lapland Buntings
1 Chinese Grey Shrike
1 Saker
c1000 Common Cranes (+ 1 Hooded)
c20 Pallas's Reed buntings
and 1 first-winter Mute Swan!! (first time I've seen this species in China)

Photos of the Sandgrouse and Mute Swan can be seen here:

http://www.chinesecurrents.com/wild_water.html

 

MKinHK

Mike Kilburn

• Dec 4, 2009

• #2

Great birds!

Beijing is a much better known birding place than when I was there as a student.

For me it was the western hills, Summer Palace and Miaofengshan a couple of times, no cranes, no ibisbill and certainly no sandgrouse!

Great stuff!

Cheers

Mike

 

xiaoming

Well-known member

• Dec 4, 2009

• #3

I will visit Wild Duck Lake this Sunday and try to find some Pallas's Sandgrouse.

 

xiaoming

Well-known member

• Dec 6, 2009

• #4

Today, we saw a White-tailed Eea Eagle and 3 Short eared owls, but only 20 Palla's Sandgrouse in Wild Duck Lake.
Yesterday, we saw 2 Ibisbills and 7 Black Storks at Baihe Canyon
11 Great Bustards(and other's feathers, eaten by Eagle owl? ) and 12 Palla's Sandgrouse in MiYun.

 

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Gretchen

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• Dec 7, 2009

• #5

MKinHK said:

Great birds!

Beijing is a much better known birding place than when I was there as a student.

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It is a big help now that there are lots more birders and lots more info shared! Thanks Shi Jin and Li Ming for telling more about what you saw at Wild Duck Lake - I'll have to get there some time!

 

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Shi Jin

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• Dec 10, 2009

• #6

Hi Xiaoming

Great to know that you managed to relocate the sandgrouse.

Saw that you saw 11 Great Bustards in Miyun. May I ask where?

 

xiaoming

Well-known member

• Dec 10, 2009

• #7

Shi Jin said:

Hi Xiaoming

Great to know that you managed to relocate the sandgrouse.

Saw that you saw 11 Great Bustards in Miyun. May I ask where?

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BuLaoTun in Chinese 不老屯， a village near MiYun reservoir.

 

mcaribou

Migration coming

• Dec 24, 2009

• #8

In Miyun Reservoir many Pallas's Reed Bunting and a few Japanese Reed Bunting.
Very interesting that even in early Dec the birds there were obviously still in migration.
On 4 Dec,11 Bustard(5m6f),1 Bar-headed Goose,1 Hooded Crane...
while on 7 Dec,11 Bustard(7m4f).Not so many geese and cranes as on 4 Dec.

In Wild Duck Lake,on 3 Dec,there was a hybrid type Hooded Crane in the flock of Common Cranes.

One adult White-tailed Eagle in Baihe Valley on 5 Dec,and I guess the same juv with Xiaoming's on 8 Dec.

 

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johnjemi

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• Dec 29, 2009

• #9

Good to hear mention of Great Bustards and Cranes: - we saw these and more in Po Yang 20 years ago : -
http://johnjemi.blogspot.com/2009/12/po-yang-1989-part-i.html

http://johnjemi.blogspot.com/2009/12/po-yang-1989-part-ii.html

Does anyone know what Po Yang is like these days ?