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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