ALISHAN

TAIWAN

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00o00´/00o00´ ha, m, mountains

September-August especially for seabird passage (29.04.2006)

 

Birding Site Guide

This mountainous area, Alishan was birded first until 09.30 then after a long drive with stops to bird along way arrived at Wulu 19.30 and birded here till dark.

 

Birds seen

Alishan then Wulu 29th April mostly Alishan

  • Little Egret Egretta garzetta
  • Black Kite Milvus migrans
  • Crested Serpent-Eagle Spilornis cheela
  • Chinese Goshawk Accipiter soloensis
  • Gray-faced Buzzard Butastur indicus
  • Mikado Pheasant Syrmaticus mikado Endemic NT
  • Oriental Turtle-Dove Streptopelia orientalis
  • White-bellied Pigeon Treron sieboldii
  • Fork-tailed Swift Apus pacificus
  • House Swift Apus nipalensis
  • Black-browed Barbet Megalaima oorti
  • Gray-capped Woodpecker Dendrocopos canicapillus
  • Pacific Swallow Hirundo tahitica
  • Asian Martin Delichon dasypus
  • Gray Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
  • Gray-chinned Minivet Pericrocotus solaris
  • Collared Finchbill Spizixos semitorques
  • Light-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis
  • Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus
  • Formosan Whistling-Thrush Myophonus insularis Endemic
  • White-browed Shortwing Brachypteryx montana
  • Yellowish-bellied Bush-Warbler Cettia acanthizoides
  • Taiwan Bush-Warbler Bradypterus alishanensis Endemic
  • Gray-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta
  • Ferruginous Flycatcher Muscicapa ferruginea
  • Vivid Niltava Niltava vivida
  • Collared Bush-Robin Tarsiger johnstoniae Endemic
  • Plumbeous Redstart Rhyacornis fuliginosa
  • Black-naped Monarch Hypothymis azurea
  • White-whiskered Laughingthrush Garrulax morrisonianus Endemic
  • Steere's Liocichla Liocichla steerii Endemic
  • Spot-breasted Scimitar-Babbler Pomatorhinus erythrocnemis
  • Pygmy Wren-Babbler Pnoepyga pusilla
  • Streak-throated Fulvetta Alcippe cinereiceps
  • Taiwan Yuhina Yuhina brunneiceps Endemic
  • Black-throated Tit Aegithalos concinnus
  • Coal Tit Periparus ater
  • Green-backed Tit Parus monticolus
  • Eurasian Nuthatch Sitta europaea
  • Japanese White-eye Zosterops japonicus
  • Maroon Oriole Oriolus traillii
  • Gray Treepie Dendrocitta formosae
  • Eurasian Nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatactes
  • Large-billed Crow Corvus macrorhynchos
  • Vinaceous Rosefinch Carpodacus vinaceus
  • Gray-headed Bullfinch Pyrrhula erythaca

 

Author: Andy Marshall

 

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