TOROKO GORGE TAIWAN
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00o00´/00o00´ ha, m,
September-August especially for seabird passage (04.05.2006)
Birding Site Guide
We birded the gorge and up to the highest point of the pass by road, then to Chingchin where we booked a hotel. In the afternoon we did a site for Brownish-flanked Bush-Warbler, before driving to Aowahe for dusk to look for owls.
Birds seen
Toroko Gorge also Aowahe (not separated) 4th May
- Taiwan Partridge Arborophila crudigularis Endemic NT
- Oriental Turtle-Dove Streptopelia orientalis
- Red Collared-Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica
- White-bellied Pigeon Treron sieboldii
- Large Hawk-Cuckoo Cuculus sparverioides
- Mountain Scops-Owl Otus spilocephalus
- Brown Hawk-Owl Ninox scutulata
- Silver-backed Needletail Hirundapus cochinchinensis
- Fork-tailed Swift Apus pacificus
- House Swift Apus nipalensis
- Black-browed Barbet Megalaima oorti
- Gray-capped Woodpecker Dendrocopos canicapillus
- Plain Martin Riparia paludicola
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Pacific Swallow Hirundo tahitica
- Asian Martin Delichon dasypus
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Ashy Minivet Pericrocotus divaricatus
- Collared Finchbill Spizixos semitorques
- Styan's Bulbul Pycnonotus taivanus Endemic V
- Light-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis
- Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus
- Flamecrest Regulus goodfellowi Endemic
- Winter Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
- Blue Rock-Thrush Monticola solitarius
- Formosan Whistling-Thrush Myophonus insularis Endemic
- Plain Prinia Prinia inornata
- Brownish-flanked Bush-Warbler Cettia fortipes
- Yellowish-bellied Bush-Warbler Cettia acanthizoides
- Taiwan Bush-Warbler Bradypterus alishanensis Endemic
- Rufous-faced Warbler Abroscopus albogularis
- Ferruginous Flycatcher Muscicapa ferruginea
- Vivid Niltava Niltava vivida
- White-browed Bush-Robin Tarsiger indicus
- Collared Bush-Robin Tarsiger johnstoniae Endemic
- Hwamei Garrulax canorus
- White-whiskered Laughingthrush Garrulax morrisonianus Endemic
- Steere's Liocichla Liocichla steerii Endemic
- Gray-cheeked Fulvetta Alcippe morrisonia
- Taiwan Yuhina Yuhina brunneiceps Endemic
- Black-throated Tit Aegithalos concinnus
- Coal Tit Periparus ater
- Green-backed Tit Parus monticolus
- Yellow Tit Macholophus holsti Endemic NT
- Eurasian Nuthatch Sitta europaea
- Japanese White-eye Zosterops japonicus
- Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus
- Bronzed Drongo Dicrurus aeneus
- Formosan Magpie Urocissa caerulea Endemic
- Large-billed Crow Corvus macrorhynchos
- White-rumped Munia Lonchura striata
- Vinaceous Rosefinch Carpodacus vinaceus
Author: Andy Marshall
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