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Regional reads
- Bamboo Fish
- Birding Mongolia
- Birds Korea
- Dave Bakewell – Dig Deep
- Dave Bakewell – Dig Deep, Malaysia (new site)
- Global Flyway Network – shorebird flagging and colour-banding
- Japanese Gull Site (excellent for those tricky East Asian gulls…)
- Korean Gulls
- Oriental Bird Club
- Spoon-billed Sandpiper Expedition Blog (Summer 2012)
- Stu Price in Hakodate, Hokkaido
- Xeno-canto Asia (Asian bird calls and songs)
Further Afield
- Alan Tilmouth
- Batumi Raptor Count (Georgia)
- Birding Benstead (Sweden)
- Bonvoy Travel
- Chris Gibbins – Gulls in north-east Scotland
- Earbirding
- Lowestoft Birds
- Martin Garner
- My photos on Netfugl.dk
- Netfugl (Denmark and WP)
- Talking Naturally with Charlie Moores
- Winterton Bird Spotting Collective (news from my original local patch)
- Yoav Perlman's Birding in Israel blog
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Blunt-winged Warbler
Blunt-winged Warbler (Acrocephalus concinens, 钝翅苇莺) is a strange bird. There are two populations, one breeding in eastern China and the other breeding west of the Himalayas in northern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In some places it appears to prefer reedbeds and in other … Continue reading
Northern Boobook
After a tip-off, Paul Holt, Alice Carfrae and I spent yesterday evening looking for an owl… not just any owl but a Northern Boobook (formerly known as Brown Hawk Owl but now ‘split’ into a species in its own right). … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Carfrae, Beijing, Northern Boobook, Oriental Scops Owl, Paul Holt
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Oriental Pratincole
The arrival of Oriental Pratincoles in Beijing in mid-April is one of spring’s reaffirming moments. The pratincoles’ harsh tern-like calls are often heard before the birds are seen. Most of the birds I see in Beijing are simply stopping off … Continue reading
Manchurian Reed Warbler
The last week of May and first week of June is THE best time for seeing acrocephalus warblers in Beijing. These birds arrive relatively late in the spring migration to allow the reedbeds and vegetation, on which they depend, to grow … Continue reading
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Tagged Huairou Reservoir, Manchurian Reed Warbler, Paul Holt, Streaked Reed Warbler
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First for Beijing – Tree Pipit!
In mid-May, after I returned from Sichuan, the British Ambassador in Beijing – Sebastian Wood – invited me to ‘survey’ the Embassy garden each morning for a week to establish how important the garden is to migrant birds. Having visited … Continue reading
Jankowski’s Bunting – an update
This week I spent five days in Inner Mongolia and Jilin Province helping the team led by Beijing Birdwatching Society to survey known, and potential new, sites for Jankowski’s Bunting. The aim was to try to establish a better understanding … Continue reading
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Tagged Beijing Birdwatching Society, Fu Jianping, Inner Mongolia, Jankowski's Bunting, Tumuji, Wulanhaote, Zhu Bing Run
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Przewalski’s (Rusty-throated) Parrotbill
The Przewalski’s (Rusty-throated) Parrotbill (Paradoxornis przewalskii) is another special bird seen on our Sichuan/Shaanxi trip. Remarkably, this bird was not seen at all, anywhere on the planet, between 1988 and 2007, when it was rediscovered at Tangjiahe in northern Sichuan by … Continue reading
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Tagged Przewalski's Parrotbill, Rusty-throated Parrotbill, Sichuan, Sid Francis, Tangjiahe
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Colour-marked Shorebirds
Here is a great new link about colour-marked shorebirds in East Asia. It’s in English and Chinese and will help to encourage birders all along the East Asian Flyway to look out for, and report, any colour-marked birds. Well done … Continue reading
Birding Beijing in The Global Times
In April I took a journalist from The Global Times – Jiang Yuxia – to Ma Chang to experience birdwatching as part of her research into birding in Beijing. Yuxia has subsequently written and published this article. It’s a good … Continue reading
Blackthroat
The Black-throated Blue Robin (Blackthroat) was, until very recently, an almost mythical bird. Known only from the odd scattered record in the Chinese Provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu, with presumed wintering records in southern China and Thailand, it has been “the … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackthroat, Firethroat, Jonathan Price, Paul Holt, Per Alström, Rob Holmes, Shaanxi, Sid Francis
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