What’s your favourite chicken species?
Crested Tit-warbler, Leptopoecile elegans
What’s your identify, and the place do you reside?
Sid Francis Dujiangyuan, Sichuan, China
Black-necked Crane
What are the principle areas or places you cowl as a chicken information?
Sichuan, Qinghai, Yunnan, Poyang Lakes, Emei Feng, Wuyuan and Dongzhai areas
How lengthy have you ever been a chicken information?
Since 2007
Tibetan Bunting
How did you get into chicken guiding?
Birding since earlier than I can keep in mind – when shifting to China I wrote birding posts. The suggestions resulted in visiting birders wanting guiding
What are the features of being a chicken information that you simply like greatest? Which features do you dislike most?
Greatest – succeeding find shoppers key focus species. Worst – ongoing adjustments in native entry and degradation of birding possibilities attributable to numerous rural developments.
What are the highest 5-10 birds in your area that you simply suppose are probably 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 (at present inaccessible)
- White-browed and Crested Tit Warblers
- Sillem’s Rosefinch
- Biet’s Laughingthrush
Are you able to define at the very least one typical birdwatching journey in your space? Please briefly describe the places, the important thing birds, and the approximate period of such a visit
- Sichuan spherical journey – 16 full days, Hengduan Mountains websites, Erlang, Labahe, Balang (a lot degraded from previous days): Monal Pheasant, Woman A Pheasant, Golden Pheasant, Temminck’s Tragopan, Blood Pheasant, Koklass Pheasant, Tibetan Snowcock, Snow Partridge, Hearth-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, Three-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 Forest Thrush, Alpine Forest 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, Three-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, Three-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, Japanese 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 options are you able to give to birders inquisitive about your space?
- Greatest visiting occasions are: Sichuan – Could to first half of July, Yunnan – December to March, Poyang, Dongzhai, Emei Feng – December to March
- Binoculars are important, information has a scope and thermal imager
- We work greatest with skilled world birders on longer journeys
If any reader of 10,000 Birds is inquisitive about birding with you, how can they greatest contact you?
By way of electronic mail chengduuk@hotmail.com or via my Twitter account https://x.com/BirdingSichuan
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