Xiaoming's 2008 list (China) (1 Viewer)

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(* new to me)
Jan 1 The Temple of Heaven -BeiJing

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
2 Eurasian Hoopoe
3 Long-eared Owl
4 Spotted Dove
5 Eurasian Sparrowhawk
6 Red-billed Blue Magpie
7 Azure-winged Magpie
8 Black-billed Magpie
9 Large-billed Crow
10 Dusky Thrush
11 White-cheeked Starling
12 Goldcrest
13 Yellow-rumped Warbler
14 Eurasian Tree Sparrow
15 Yellow-billed Grosbeak


Jan 10 YuanMingYuan-BeiJing

16 Mallard
17 Spot-billed Duck
18 Grey-headed woodpecker
19 Common kingfisher
20 Crested Kingfisher
21 little Grebe
22 Carrion Crow
23 Eurasian Blackbird
24 Marsh Tit
25 Great Tit
26 Long-tailed Tit
27 Brambling


Jan 13 ShiDu-BeiJing
28 Chukar*(131)
29 Ruddy Shelduck
30 Gadwall
31 Common Goldeneye
32 Common Merganser
33 Hill Pigeon
34 Oriental Turtle Dove
35 Green Sandpiper
36 Long-billed Plover
37 White-tailed Sea Eagle*(132)
38 Cinereous Vulture
39 Common Buzzard
40 Common Kestrel
41 Great Cormorant
42 Grey Herom
43 Black Stork
44 Red-billed Blue Magpie
45 Brown Dipper
46 Daurian Redstart
47 White-capped Water-Redstart
48 Plumbeous Water-Redstart
49 Eurasian Crag-Martin
50 Vinous-throated Parrobill
51 Water Pipit
52 Grey-capped Greenfinch
53 Godlewski's Butting
54 Meadow Bunting
55 Yellow-throated Bunting


Jan 30 ShuiShang Park-TianJin

56 Silky stanling
57 Crested Myna
58 Light-vented Bulbul

Feb 2 Tanggu -Tianjin
59 Common Black-headed Gull
60 Black-tailed Gull

 

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Feb 24 TianTan(The Temple of Heaven )BeiJing
This morning I went to TianTan, and glad to see some new birder join us. So before watching birds we told them some basic knowledge about birding.(pic 1). what did the man see from the telescope (pic 2). It's the star bird of TianTan --- Long-eared Owl.(pic 3) They like to eat bats and mice.(pic 4).


the birds I see today is similar with last time(Jan 1). But have two more.
61 Oriental Turtle Dove
62 Dark-Throated Thrush

welcome new birders(pic 5).

 

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Feb 29
Beijing Botanical Garden

Some part of river thaws. it becomes a good place for bird drinking(of course ,for watching)
I just stay here 15min and see some good birds.
>100 Brambling (I try to find one Chaffinch from them, but i fail)

63 Yellow-bellied tit
64 Little Bunting
65 Tristram's Bunting

Dusky Thrush
Yellow-Throated Bunting
Pallas's Leaf Warbler

 

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Baihe canyon ---Beijing
Today I go to Baihe canyon to find a Ibisbill. At last, I havn't seen it but I find some other birds.

66 pheasant
67 Golden Eagle
68 pale Thrush
69 Plain Laughingthrush
70 Red-billed Chough *(133)



Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Hill Pigeon
Common kingfisher
Crested Kingfisher
Red-billed Blue Magpie
Grey-capped Greenfinch
Meadow bunting
Godlewski's bunting
little Bunting
Vinous-throated Parrotbill
Grey Heron
and so on

 

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add one to 2nd March's list
71 Ochre-rumped Bunting*(134)(female)

We saw this Bunting at the first stop of our trip. It just stood at a tree for 5 minutes, but none of us ever saw it in the field. After excluding other similar Bunting and asking other bird watchers, we confirm it.

 

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March 9th HuaiShaHe river Beijing

72 White-browed Chinese Warber
73 Grey-headed Pygmy Woodpecker
74 Siberian Accentor *(135)
75 White Wagtail
76 Rustic Bunting
77 Winter Wren

 

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Mar 15
A.M. TuanBoWa Reservoir--Tianjin
78 Japanese Quail (*136)
79 Mute Swan(*137)
80 Whooper Swan
81 Bewick's Swan(Tundra Swan)
82 Smew
83 Northern Lapwing(*138)
84 Great Crested Grebe
85 Chinese Grey Shrike

P.M. DaGang-- Tianjin
86 Black-tailed Godwit(*139)
87 Eurasian Curlew(*140)
88 Spotted Redshank
89 Dunlin
90 Kwntish Plover
91 Relict Gull(*141)
92 Northern Harrier
93 Eurasian Skylark
94 Buff-bellied Pipit
95 Reed Bunting(*141)
96 Pallas's Reed Bunting(*142)

 

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Mar 22
ShiSanLing Reservoir--BeiJing
97 Horned Lark(* 143)
98 Swan Goose

 

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Mar 27 the Summer Palace(Yi He Yuan)
99 Barn Swallow
100 Common Teal
101 Tufted Duck(* 144)
102 Common Pochard
103 Northern Shoveler(* 145)
104 Falcated Duck(*146)

 

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Mar 30 Yu Yuan Tan-- Beijing
105 Orange-flanked Bush Robin

 

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April 1 Yi He Yuan- Beijing
106 Common Shelduck(* 147)
107 Nothern Pintail(* 148)
108 Eurasian Wigeon(* 149)

 

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April 5 Tai Feng Park －Tian Jin
109 Chinese Penduline Tit (*150)
110 Hawfinch(*151)

 

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April 13 YeYaLake --Beijing
See more http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=111141
111 Mandarin Duck(*152)
112 Bean Goose
113 Black-winged Stilt
114 Little Ringed Plover(*153)
115 Osprey(*154)
116 Eastern March-Harrier(*155)
117 Pied Harrier(*156)
118 Saker Falcon
119 Peregrine Falcon(*157)
120 White Spoonbill(*158)
121 Red-rumped Swallaw(*159)

 

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April 13 ShaHe--Beijing
122 Garganey(*160)
123 White-eyed Pochard(*161)
124 Pied Avocet(*162)

 

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April 19 BaiWangShan--beijing
125 Common Swift(*163)

 

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April 26 YaLuJiang River, DanDong, LiaoNing province

126 20000 × Bar-tailed Godwits (*164)
127 3 × Nordmann’s Greenshanks(*165)
128 150 × Saunders’s Gulls(*166)
129 50 × Grey Plovers (*167)
130 50 × Common Redshanks(*168)
131 30 × Whimbrels(*169)
132 30 × Little Terns(*170)
133 10 × Great Knots(*171)
134 10 × Lesser Sand Plovers(*172)
135 2 × Red Knots(*173)
136 3 × Eurasian Oystercatchers（*174）
137 2 × Mew gulls
138 200 × Eastern Curlews

 

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April 27 YaLuJiang River, DanDong, LiaoNing province
see more
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=111141&page=2
139 Common Greenshank（*175）
140 Terek Sandpipers（*176）
141 Sharp-tailed Sandpipers （*177）
142 Common Sandpipers. （*178）
143 Common Stonechats（*179）
144 Pale Thrush

 

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May 2nd Dagang Tianjin

145 Common Tern(*180)
146 Oriental Scops Owl(*181)
147 Temminck’s stint (*182)
148 Common snipe

 

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May 2nd ZiYun park Tianjin
149 Two-barred Warbler (*183)

 

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May 4 Qingtuozi Tianjin
150 Wood Sandpiper(*184)
151 Curlew Sandpiper(*185)
152 Red-neck Stint(*186)


Jiyunhe River
153 Common Moorhen
154 Common Coot
155 Great Egret(*187)
156 Black-crowned Night Heron
157 Whiskered Tern(*188)
158 Yellow Wagtail(*189)
159 Grey Wagtail(*190)