Our last day of the trip. We spent the first half of the day again up
in the hills. It was nice to get better views of both Rusty and
Rusty-crowned Laughingthrush both endemics. We had only got brief views
of these two earlier in the trip. I also got my last lifer of the trip
here in the form of Dusky Fulvetta, a common enough species but another
real skulker.
We headed back to Taoyuan City and visited the same area of agricultural fields and paddyfields around the international airport that we had visited at the very beginning of the trip. We had a few of the very few winter migrants that we encountered on the trip e.g. Black-faced Bunting, Dusky Warbler and Red-throated Pipits.
In the end I got 90 lifers, 27 of which were 27 endemics. I personally saw a total of 175 species. A big thank you to our Stijn De Win of Birding 2 Asia for a smooth and well put together trip.
We headed back to Taoyuan City and visited the same area of agricultural fields and paddyfields around the international airport that we had visited at the very beginning of the trip. We had a few of the very few winter migrants that we encountered on the trip e.g. Black-faced Bunting, Dusky Warbler and Red-throated Pipits.
In the end I got 90 lifers, 27 of which were 27 endemics. I personally saw a total of 175 species. A big thank you to our Stijn De Win of Birding 2 Asia for a smooth and well put together trip.
Gadwall |
Eurasian Wigeon |
Eastern Spot-billed Duck |
Northern Shoveler |
Garganey |
Eurasian Teal |
Tufted Duck |
Taiwan Partridge |
Taiwan Bamboo-Partridge |
Swinhoe's Pheasant |
Mikado Pheasant |
Ring-necked Pheasant |
Little Grebe |
Sacred Ibis |
Black-faced Spoonbill |
Yellow Bittern |
Malayan Night Heron |
Black-crowned Night-Heron |
Striated Heron |
Chinese Pond Heron |
Western Cattle Egret |
Grey Heron |
Great Egret |
Intermediate Egret |
Little Egret |
Chinese Egret |
Great Cormorant |
Osprey |
Black-shouldered Kite |
Oriental Honey-buzzard |
Crested Serpent Eagle |
Mountain Hawk-Eagle |
Black Eagle |
Crested Goshawk |
Eastern Marsh Harrier |
Black Kite |
White-tailed Eagle |
Eastern Buzzard |
Common Moorhen |
Eurasian Coot |
Black-winged Stilt |
Pied Avocet |
Grey Plover |
Pacific Golden Plover |
Greater Sand-Plover |
Kentish Plover |
Little Ringed Plover |
Greater Painted-snipe |
Common Snipe |
Redshank |
Marsh Sandpiper |
Common Greenshank |
Green Sandpiper |
Wood Sandpiper |
Common Sandpiper |
Great Knot |
Red-necked Stint |
Long-toed Stint |
Curlew Sandpiper |
Dunlin |
Little Tern |
Caspian Tern |
Whiskered Tern |
Rock Pigeon |
Oriental Turtle Dove |
Red Turtle Dove |
Spotted Dove |
Common Emerald Dove |
White-bellied Green Pigeon |
Whistling Green Pigeon |
Lesser Coucal |
Oriental Cuckoo |
Savanna Nightjar |
Silver-backed Needletail |
Pacific Swift |
House Swift |
Common Kingfisher |
Taiwan Barbet |
Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker |
White-backed Woodpecker |
Eurasian Kestrel |
Grey-chinned Minivet |
Brown Shrike |
Long-tailed Shrike |
White-bellied Erpornis |
Black-naped Oriole |
Maroon Oriole |
Black Drongo |
Black-naped Monarch |
Taiwan Blue Magpie |
Grey Treepie |
Eurasian Magpie |
Eurasian Nutcracker |
Large-billed Crow |
Coal Tit |
Chestnut-bellied Tit |
Green-backed Tit |
Yellow Tit |
Oriental Skylark |
Collared Finchbill |
Light-vented Bulbul |
Styan's Bulbul |
Black Bulbul |
Grey-throated Martin |
Barn Swallow |
Pacific Swallow |
Asian House Martin |
Striated Swallow |
Taiwan Wren-babbler |
Rufous-faced Warbler |
Brown-flanked Bush Warbler |
Yellow-bellied Bush Warbler |
Black-throated Bushtit |
Dusky Warbler |
Arctic Warbler |
Taiwan Bush Warbler |
Zitting Cisticola |
Striated Prinia |
Yellow-bellied Prinia |
Plain Prinia |
Black-necklaced Scimitar Babbler |
Taiwan Scimitar Babbler |
Rufous-capped Babbler |
Dusky Fulvetta |
Grey-cheeked Fulvetta |
Taiwan Hwamei |
Rufous-crowned Laughingthrush |
Rusty Laughingthrush |
White-whiskered Laughingthrush |
Steere's Liocichla |
Taiwan Barwing |
White-eared Sibia |
Taiwan Fulvetta |
Vinous-throated Parrotbill |
Golden Parrotbill |
Taiwan Yuhina |
Japanese White-eye |
Flamecrest |
Winter Wren |
Eurasian Nuthatch |
Crested Myna |
Javan Myna |
Common Myna |
Black-collared Starling |
White-shouldered Starling |
Chestnut-tailed Starling |
White's Thrush |
Brown-headed Thrush |
Vivid Niltava |
White-browed Shortwing |
Siberian Rubythroat |
White-tailed Robin |
White-browed Bush Robin |
Collared Bush Robin |
Red-flanked Bluetail |
Little Forktail |
Taiwan Whistling Thrush |
Snowy-browed Flycatcher |
Plumbeous Water Redstart |
Blue Rock Thrush |
Brown Dipper |
Fire-breasted Flowerpecker |
Eurasian Tree Sparrow |
White-rumped Munia |
Scaly-breasted Munia |
Alpine Accentor |
Eastern Yellow Wagtail |
Grey Wagtail |
White Wagtail |
Olive-backed Pipit |
Red-throated Pipit |
Brown Bullfinch |
Taiwan Rosefinch |
Eurasian Siskin |
Black-faced Bunting |
Rusty Laughingthrush |
Rusty Laughingthrush |
Rusty Laughingthrush |
Female Vivid Niltava |
Male Vivid Niltava |
Male Vivid Niltava |
Male Vivid Niltava |
Crested Serpent Eagle |
Eurasian Nuthatch |
Rufous-crowned Laughingthrush |
Taiwan Partridge |
Black-collared Starling |
Eastern Cattle Egret |
Black-faced Bunting |
Dusky Warbler |
Long-tailed Shrike |
Black-faced Bunting |
Black-faced Bunting |
Black-shouldered Kite |
Black-shouldered Kite |