Wildlifeof China
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7 reports · China
Field reports from China, written by the people who made the trips. Each one is reproduced with permission, with its species lists and photographs, and the animals it records link to their pages in this guide.
Trip report · Bird Tour Asia · 2026China in Winter Birding Tour Trip Report 2026Bird Tour Asia's 16 January to 6 February 2026 winter tour, led by Mike Nelson and Elan James, from Beijing and Bohai Bay to Poyang Lake's Siberian Cranes, Hainan, the Nonggang karst and Yunnan: Scaly-sided Merganser, Relict and Saunders's Gulls, Brown Eared Pheasant and a checklist of about 430 species.
Trip report · Cat Expeditions · 2026Chinese Mountain Cats of Sichuan Exploratory Trip Report 2025Cat Expeditions' seven-day exploratory trip to the Tibetan Plateau of Sichuan in 2025: two night-time sightings of a male Chinese mountain cat (the closest at four metres), four Tibetan fox sightings, plus Himalayan marmots, plateau pikas, a musk deer and 28 bird species.
Trip report · Bird Tour Asia · 2025East China Birding Tour Trip Report 2025Bird Tour Asia's 6 to 23 May 2025 tour north through ten provinces of eastern China, led by Elan James and Wilbur Goh: Silver Oriole, Cabot's Tragopan, Elliot's Pheasant, Reeves's Pheasant, Crested Ibis, Blue-crowned Laughingthrush and a checklist of about 290 species.
Trip report · Tropical Birding · 2025Southern China Birding with a Camera Reconnaissance Report 2025Tropical Birding's 2 to 13 January 2025 guide reconnaissance for its China Birding with a Camera tour, by Zac Babbit: photography hides at Baihualing, Hornbill Valley and Nonggong, then Hainan, with 217 birds and 12 mammals.
Trip report · Bird Tour Asia · 2025Xinjiang and Tibetan Plateau Birding Tour Trip Report 2025Bird Tour Asia's 7 to 26 June 2025 tour from Xinjiang along the edge of the Taklamakan Desert to Lhasa and the Tibetan Plateau, led by Mike Nelson: Xinjiang Ground Jay, Saxaul Sparrow, Tarim Babbler, Lord Derby's Parakeet and a checklist of about 240 species.
Trip report · Bird Tour Asia · 2024Sichuan Birding Tour Trip Report 2024Bird Tour Asia's 19 May to 7 June 2024 birding tour of Sichuan, led by Mike Nelson: Temminck's Tragopan, Chinese Monal, five parrotbills at Wawushan, Przewalski's Pinktail on the Tibetan Plateau, and a checklist of birds and mammals including red panda and takin.
Trip report · Tropical Birding · 2017Sichuan and the Tibetan Plateau Birding Tour Trip Report 2017Tropical Birding's 1 to 17 June 2017 set-departure tour of Sichuan and the Tibetan Plateau, led by Sam Woods and Charley Hesse: pheasants, parrotbills, Przevalski's Rosefinch, Pere David's Owl and a checklist of about 300 species.