HUBEN
TAIWAN
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00o00´/00o00´ ha, m,
September-August especially for seabird passage (28.04.2006)
Birding Site Guide
The flight was to Taipai, then we drove to Linnei where we stayed the night. Next day to Huben and in afternoon birded along coast from here as far as Tainan, there being several fishponds and the estuary to check for birds.
Birds seen
Huben
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Malayan Night-Heron Gorsachius melanolophus
- Taiwan Partridge Arborophila crudigularis Endemic NT
- Chinese Bamboo-Partridge Bambusicola thoracicus
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Red Collared-Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica
- Spotted Dove Streptopelia chinensis
- Emerald Dove Chalcophaps indica
- Savanna Nightjar Caprimulgus affinis
- House Swift Apus nipalensis
- Black-browed Barbet Megalaima oorti
- Gray-capped Woodpecker Dendrocopos canicapillus
- Fairy Pitta Pitta nympha V
- Gray-chinned Minivet Pericrocotus solaris
- Collared Finchbill Spizixos semitorques
- Light-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis
- Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus
- Black-naped Monarch Hypothymis azurea
- Streak-breasted Scimitar-Babbler Pomatorhinus ruficollis
- Rufous-capped Babbler Stachyris ruficeps
- Dusky Fulvetta Alcippe brunnea
- Gray-cheeked Fulvetta Alcippe morrisonia
- Japanese White-eye Zosterops japonicus
- Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus
- Bronzed Drongo Dicrurus aeneus
- Gray Treepie Dendrocitta formosae
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
- White-rumped Munia Lonchura striata
between Huben & Tainan
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Gray Heron Ardea cinerea
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Intermediate Egret Egretta intermedia
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Chinese Egret Egretta eulophotes V
- Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Yellow Bittern Ixobrychus sinensis
- Cinnamon Bittern Ixobrychus cinnamomeus
- Black-faced Spoonbill Platalea minor Endangered
- Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum
- Pacific Golden-Plover Pluvialis fulva
- Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola
- Snowy Plover Charadrius alexandrinus
- Lesser Sandplover Charadrius mongolus
- Greater Sandplover Charadrius leschenaultii
- Asian Dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus NT
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa NT
- Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Gray-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes
- Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Common Redshank Tringa totanus
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata
- Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Broad-billed Sandpiper Limicola falcinellus
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Little Tern Sternula albifrons
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Great Crested Tern Thalasseus bergii
- Red Collared-Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica
- Spotted Dove Streptopelia chinensis
- Savanna Nightjar Caprimulgus affinis
- Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
- Plain Martin Riparia paludicola
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Pacific Swallow Hirundo tahitica
- Striated Swallow Cecropis striolata
- Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Light-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis
- Yellow-bellied Prinia Prinia flaviventris
- Plain Prinia Prinia inornata
- Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus
- Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach
- Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus
- Eurasian Magpie Pica pica
- Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
- Nutmeg Mannikin Lonchura punctulata
Author: Andy Marshall
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