10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Located about 2 hours from Xining by car, Qinghai Lake is China’s largest lake. Pallas’s Gull also breeds at Qinghai Lake, though the numbers are sadly much reduced: “The numbers breeding at L Qinghai, China, has apparently fallen from > 87,000 in 1970s to c. 15,000 in 2006” (HBW).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2020
In fact, if I were to leave China right now, they would not let me back into the country. Others have wintered here and are now in the process of leaving for the summer, such as the Black-faced Spoonbill – already in breeding plumage so as to not waste any time once arriving in Northern China.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 15, 2023
I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2020
The annual parade of birds is happening and the feathered participants are dressed in their best breeding suits. Now is when we can venture into the closest park and see birds of the deep woods, species that breed far from town. It’s a living festival and for the birds, 2020 is no different. Summer Tanagers also migrate.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
The Siberian Rubythroat seems to somewhat lack a proper inbuilt GPS system – while it breeds as far west as the Ural Mountains and winters as far est as Central India, it does not migrate through central Asia in large numbers (even though this would be the shortest way). So better not let a rubythroat bite you. .
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 27, 2022
And the very best and the most up-to-date field guide is “Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore”, the 2020 Lynx and BirdLife International Collection guide by Chong Leong Puan, Geoffrey Davison and Kim Chye Lim.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 9, 2020
A Chinese Pond Heron in its full breeding plumage glory. And cheating again, here is a bird I saw at Nanhui in the first few days of 2020, a Common Kestrel. Excluding some of the obvious stars which I have shown you in earlier posts, some of the entries are below. Bluethroats can already be seen from early April. How many legs?
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