What’s your favourite fowl species?
Crested Tit-warbler, Leptopoecile elegans
What’s your identify, and the place do you are living?
Sid Francis Dujiangyuan, Sichuan, China
Black-necked Crane
What are the principle areas or places you quilt as a fowl information?
Sichuan, Qinghai, Yunnan, Poyang Lakes, Emei Feng, Wuyuan and Dongzhai spaces
How lengthy have you ever been a fowl information?
Since 2007
Tibetan Bunting
How did you get into fowl guiding?
Birding since prior to I will be able to take note – when shifting to China I wrote birding posts. The comments ended in visiting birders short of guiding
What are the facets of being a fowl information that you just like perfect? Which facets do you dislike maximum?
Perfect – succeeding find shoppers key center of attention species. Worst – ongoing adjustments in native get right of entry to and degradation of birding possibilities because of more than a few rural traits.
What are the highest 5-10 birds on your area that you just assume are essentially the most fascinating for visiting birders?
- Pheasants: Golden, Woman Amherst’s, Reeve’s
Woman Amherst’s Pheasant
- Temminck’s and Cabbot’sTragopan
- Firethroat
- Przewalski’s Finch (Pinktail)
- Black-necked and Siberian Crane
- Rufous-headed Robin (these days inaccessible)
- White-browed and Crested Tit Warblers
- Sillem’s Rosefinch
- Biet’s Laughingthrush
Are you able to define a minimum of one conventional birdwatching shuttle on your space? Please in short describe the places, the important thing birds, and the approximate length of any such shuttle
- Sichuan spherical shuttle – 16 complete days, Hengduan Mountains websites, Erlang, Labahe, Balang (a lot degraded from outdated days): Monal Pheasant, Woman A Pheasant, Golden Pheasant, Temminck’s Tragopan, Blood Pheasant, Koklass Pheasant, Tibetan Snowcock, Snow Partridge, Fireplace-capped Tit, Golden Bush Warbler, Firethroat. Noticed Bush Warbler, Chestnut-crowned Bush Warbler, Gray-sided Bush Warbler, Aberrant Bush Warbler, Scaly-breasted Cupwing, White-bellied Redstart, Black-faced Laughingthrush, Leaf Warblers Emei Leaf Warbler, Rufous-tailed Moupinia, Fulvous Parrotbill, Brown, 3-toed and Nice Parrotbill, Eye-ringed Parrotbill, Firethroat, Chinese language Rubythroat White-browed Bush Robin, Noticed, Barred, Large Laughingthrush, White-browed Tit Warbler, Chinese language Fulvetta, Sharpe’s, Darkish-breasted, Darkish-rumped and different Rosefinches, Sichuan Wooded area Thrush, Alpine Wooded area Thrush, Rufous-breasted accentor, Grandala
Brown Parrotbill
Grandala
- South Sichuan websites – Longgcangou space, Xichang, Yibin Hides, Moxi: Sichuan Partridge, Temminck’s Tragopan, Woman A Pheasant, Silver Pheasant, Emei Liocichla, Buffy Laughingthrush, Yunnan Nuthatch, Yunnan Fulvetta, Crested Finchbill, Black-headed Greenfinch, Bar-winged Wren Babbler, Gold-fronted Fulvetta, Brown, 3-toed, Gray-hooded, Nice Parrotbills, Firethroat, Blue-fronted Robin
Gray-hooded Parrotbill
Temminck’s Tragopan
- North Sichuan Websites -Baxi, Jiuzhaigou, Tangjiahe: Crested Tit Warbler, Blue Eared Pheasant, Tibetan Snowcock, Chinese language Grouse, Chinese language Thrush, White-browed Tit, Blood Pheasant, Pere David’s Owl, Tawny Fish Owl, Crested Kingfisher, Spot-breasted Parrotbill, Spectacled Parrotbill, 3-Banded Rosefinch, Zappey’s Flycatcher, Moustached Laughingthrush, Suketchev’s Laughingthrush, Pere Davids Laughingthrush, Chinese language Nuthatch, Pere David’s Tit, Siberian Rubythroat, Sichuan Jay
White-browed Tit
- Tibetan Grassland Websites – Ruoergai: Saker Falcon, Upland Buzzard, Lammergeier, Himalayan Griffon, Black-necked Crane, Little Owl, Eurasian Eagle Owl, Daurian Jackdaw, Black-rumped Magpie, Jap Azure-winged Magpie, Tibetan Lark, Citrine Wagtail, Tibetan Gray Shrike, White-browed Tit, White-rumped, Rufous-necked, Black-winged Snowfinches, White-browed Tit Warbler, Tibetan Partridge, Przewalski’s Finch (Pinktail), Siberian Stonechat, Tickell’s Leaf Warbler, Robin Accentor, Hill Pigeon, Snow Pigeon
Lammergeier
What different ideas are you able to give to birders on your space?
- Perfect visiting occasions are: Sichuan – Would possibly to first part of July, Yunnan – December to March, Poyang, Dongzhai, Emei Feng – December to March
- Binoculars are crucial, information has a scope and thermal imager
- We paintings perfect with skilled global birders on longer journeys
If any reader of 10,000 Birds is curious about birding with you, how can they perfect touch you?
Thru e-mail [email protected] or via my Twitter account https://x.com/BirdingSichuan