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China Hubei

Bar-tailed Treecreeper Certhia himalayana ŠAlister Benn http://www.availablelightimages.com

The provincial capital of Hubei is Wuhan.

clubs

Wuhan Birdwatching Society

http://www.wwfchina.org/bbs/wuhan.htm
In Chinese

museums

Wuhan University

http://www.whu.edu.cn/en/resource/dongwu.htm
Wuhan University Animal Specimen Museum , is one of the oldest, biggest specimen museum in our country. It was first founded in 1929. Untile present time, totally collected 556 kinds of fish, 98 kinds of amphibian, 126 kinds of acrawl, 1300 kinds of birds, and 175 kinds of mammalia. And also some typical specimens, such as duckbill kangaroo, kiwi, African and Australian ostrich, etc. Have nearly 700 square meter showroom and workroom. Collected specimens number and scale is top among the whole country...

reserves

Shennongjia National Natural Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21389.htm
It is known that there are 336 species of terrestrial vertebrate, 200 species of birds, 30 species of reptiles...

Tian'ezhou White-Flag Dolphin Nature Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21379.htm
...The main protection targets are white-flag dolphins and their habitat. The white-flag dolphin, a rare mammal on the verge of extinction in the Yangtze River...

trip reports

Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you cant find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page give them a try!

China Bird Report

http://www.cnbirder.com/
For the most part these are just lists of birds seen on individual dates at locations across the whole of China - but none-the-less, useful... In Chinese and [mostly] English.

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