Apart from great birds like Courtois’s Laughingthrush, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Cabot’s Tragopan, Reed Parrotbill and Elliot’s Pheasant, one of the main objectives on last month’s tour of SE China was to witness the migration of East Asian passerines, particularly many of those species that can turn up, or potentially turn up, in UK – one might [...]
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Passerine Migrants near Rudong – China Birding
June 1st, 2017 
Nick 
Posted in Birdwatching in China, Migration, Nature 
Tags: bird watching, bird watching China, bird watching in China, birding China, China 
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Brown Bush Warbler at Emei Feng – China Birding
May 29th, 2017 Nick Although the tour I led to Southeast China last month featured a lot of very colourful and rare birds one of the species I was most keen to see was one of the brownest of “little brown jobs” – Brown Bush Warbler. One might ask why a skulking brown bush warbler would be high on [...]
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North Wales 4-day Trip, 23-26th May 2017 – British Birding
May 27th, 2017 Nick Although I am lucky enough to spend a large amount of my time on birding trips in Thailand and other parts of Asia, I do not get that much time to spend birding in UK and in particular I spend very little time in my home country in Spring when it is easier to see [...]
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Old Lodge Nature Reserve, Ashdown Forest – British Birding
May 17th, 2017 Nick Just 45 minutes away by car from my mother’s home I can get to Ashdown Forest. This is a great place to find a number of woodland and heathland birds that are not easily seen in Southern England outside of the best habitat and today I made a visit to this very scenic area. In [...]
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Birding Nanhui, Shanghai – China Birding
May 14th, 2017 Nick I recently returned from leading a birding tour to Southeast China where we enjoyed some large numbers of shorebirds, range-restricted forest species and a wide variety of passage migrants. We flew in and out of Shanghai, traveling around this and neighbouring provinces, and one site, just outside of Shanghai provided me with my first birding in [...]
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Spring Birding in UK – British Birding
May 11th, 2017 Nick Having recently spent 2 weeks in China, then just 1 day back in Thailand, I find myself back in UK with the opportunity to walk out of the front door and see a whole load of breeding farmland birds within seconds. Spring is in full flow with lots of birds singing and even a few [...]
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Daap Waterhole, Kaeng Krachan – Thailand Birding
April 21st, 2017 Nick The hides/waterholes close to Kaeng Krachan have become famous with birders in Thailand and beyond and quite rightly as they always seem to deliver good birds and it is a great experience to get so close to so many species at these locations. Ban Song Nok and Lung Sin Waterhole are the most frequently visited [...]
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