ZOOTHERA BIRDING BLOG

After a night of heavy rain it didn’t look too promising for our chances of reaching Huangang Shan this morning, however the weather clear...

We left the hotel at 4.30am and drove up the mountainous road to towards the summit of Huangang Shan. The day dawned clear and promised to...

No apologies for posting some more pics of my bird of the trip - just in front of Chinese Crested Tern, but more of that in later posts! ...

It took most of the morning to reach the mountains of Wuyishan but it was definitely worth the wait as we left the lowlands behind...

Just ten minutes away from the hotel is the new Magic Wood, a small patch of woodland and scrub a little larger than a football fi...

Early this morning we headed towards Magic Forest and birded along the tree-lined road, which had attracted a large fall of mainly war...

 Apologies for no recent posts, but The Great Fire Wall of China prevented any posts whilst on tour. Following a morning arr...

With migration in full swing along the south-east China coast there have been a number of good records in the last few days. Several smart ...

We drove up to the top of Alishan Mountain and spent a very enjoyable morning in good weather seeing some very good and often tricky ende...

We finally managed to get our last endemic of the tour this afternoon when a covey of Taiwan Hill-partridges came into view and onto our l...

Had a great day along Taiwan's east coast watching waders with the highlight being a flock of 33 Asiatic Dowitchers. Managed to get som...