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China Xizang

Blue-fronted Redstart Phoenicurus frontalis ŠAlister Benn http://www.availablelightimages.com

Xizang [provincial capital Lhasa] is better known to the rest of the world as Tibet - see the separate page for Tibet for another perspective.

numbers

Number of bird species:561

numbers

Number of endemics:1
Sillem`s Mountain-Finch Leucosticte sillemi

reserves

Maidika

http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_china.htm
A vast swamp meadow above 4,900 meters, with permanent and seasonal pools and lakes in the headwater region of the Maidicangbu, a tributary stream of the Lhasa River...

Mapangyong Cuo

http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_china.htm
A high-altitude wetland of the Tibetan plateau (4,500-6,500m asl) covering Mapangyong and Laang Lakes with surrounding swamps and rivers, "one of the highest elevation freshwater wetlands in the world" and a source of the Yalu Tsangpo/Brahmaputra River...

Motuo Nature Reserve

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21379.htm
The Motuo Nature Reserve with an area of 62,620 hectares lies in Motuo County of Tibet Autonomous Region...

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!

2005 [April] - Edward C Hall

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/china/china4/china-mar-05.htm
During the course of an OAT tour of China, I took every opportunity to break away for birding. Following are some suggestions as to where others might productively visit. These suggestions reflect, of course, the time of year that I was there and may not be as applicable to other seasons...

2005 [June] - George Wagner

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/china/Tibet1/tibet-2005.htm
...The mystical land of Tibet holds many attractions to westerners. Many come to visit the monasteries, its people, and the stark landscape. In June of 2005, I went there to see the birds of the Tibetan plateau. Traditional Tibet is now split among four Chinese governmental provinces. This trip report covers birding areas I visited the two largest Tibetan provinces Xizang and Qinghai. These two provinces constitute most of traditional Tibet and hold nearly all of the birds associated with the Tibetan Plateau...

2005 [June] - Mr. Tang Jun, Ms Dang Rong &Mr. Dong Xiaohe - SE of Qinghai/Tibet Plateau

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/chinatibettravel/qinghai-june-05.htm
I think this is probably the first birding report from this area by a local Chinese people. So it should be good to let the birders worldwide have more view of birds of this area from a Chinese viewpoint...

2005 [October] - Jesper Hornskov & Jay Vandergaast

http://www.limosaholidays.co.uk/tripReportDetail.cfm?reportID=365
... picnic breakfast of pastries and moon cakes was spiced up a bit by a party of Red-billed Blue Magpies fluttering through the hillside scrub and whetting our appetites for whatever else the day held in store...

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.

tour operators

China Birding Tour

http://www.infohub.com/travel/sit/sit_pages/13032.html
China Birding is a travel company based in China, Chengdu and Tibet.We do tailor made itineraries for any bird watchers who have an interest in the birds of China: Qinghaai, Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet. We have the experience. We can do tour arrangements for individuals or for for birding travel companys visiting China. We can arrange all your hotels, travel and guiding...

Fieldguides

http://www.fieldguides.com/china.htm
A truly fabulous birding adventure, beginning with a tide of stunning autumn migrants at Beidahe and Happy Island and concluding high in the mountains of the remote Tibetan Plateau... next trip planned September 2007

Kingbird Tours

http://faculty.jsd.claremont.edu/dguthrie/tibet/index.html

Limosa Holidays

http://www.limosaholidays.co.uk/tourDetail.cfm?tourID=220
An extraordinary birdwatching adventure - Led by one of Chinas foremost bird tour guides... [Next planned trip Sept 2006]

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