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Birding Wolongshan, Sichuan, China

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With travel restrictions still in place, going on a birding trip outside of China is still not a practical option. Fortunately, China itself has a large number of bird species and habitats. I guess it is pretty common in many areas of China, but not in Shanghai, so it is still a special bird for me.

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Where can I pet a panda in China?

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Are there places in China that allow you to volunteer to care for them and in exchange, get to pet them? ​ The few americans zoos that had pandas never let people touch the pandas. I have heard of "panda nannies" submitted by /u/PandasHaveSex [link] [comments]

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Birding Laifengshan, Tengchong, Yunnan, China

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While Baihualing is much better for birds, foreigners are currently prohibited from going there, presumably as we all carry Covid-19, even if like me we have been in China the whole year. I am always happy to see Black-throated Bushtit, even though it is not really rare in China. Better safe than sorry, I guess. Does this sound bitter?

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A Japanese in China

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The Avibase China birdlist counts 7 species of minivets for China – one of which is the Ashy Minivet. For Japan, there are only two species listed – again the Ashy Minivet, but also the Japanese Minivet (mostly called Ryukyu Minivet elsewhere), a Japanese endemic which is not on the China list.

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Birding Baxi Forest, Sichuan, China

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Like many birding locations in China, it has been somewhat under birded in the past 18 months or so, as travel restrictions have kept most foreigners away and only some of the younger Chinese birders actively use eBird. The post Birding Baxi Forest, Sichuan, China appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Progress of sorts, I guess.

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Birding Mengbishan, Sichuan, China

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As often in China, the choice seems to be between terrible infrastructure and almost no people or great roads accompanied by caravans of tour buses. The post Birding Mengbishan, Sichuan, China appeared first on 10,000 Birds. The horrible essentially meaning half-an-hour delays for construction while the road is being upgraded.

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Birding around Qinghai Lake, China

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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).

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