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Qinghai, China June 2010
Qinghai, China June 2010 June - July 2010 Bengt-Eric Sjölinder Qinghai 16.6-4.7 2010 Short Itinerary 16.6 Flight Beijing-Xining. 17.6 Dong Xya. Then via Datong to Xihay. 18.6 East Koko Nor, West Koko Nor to Heimahe. Night in Chaka. 19.6 Valley in the Dolan Mountains. Back to Chaka. 20.6 Desert E Chaka. The Gulag Grove and the Chaka Grove. Chaka Wadi, W Chaka. 21.6 Rubber Mountains. Then South Koko Nor Range to Gonghe. Valley close to Gonghe. 22.6 Continuing south. Stop at ”the Gully”. On to Er la Pass. Night in Wenquan. 23.6 Er la Pass. Wenquan in the evening. 24.6 Wenquan-Madoo-Dayematan-Bayankala Pass-Yushu. 25.6 Yushu-”the Gorge”. Road towards Nanquen Forest Reserve. Night in Nanquen. 26.6 South of Nanquen. ”the Pass” and ”the Spruce Forest”. Night in Nanquen. 27.6 Kanda Shan. 28.6 ”the Spruce Forest” south of Nanquen. 29.6 Nanquen-”the Gorge”-Yushu-the lake Longbaotan-Qumarleb. 30.6 Qumarleb-Qumahe-the main road between Golmud and Lhasa. Night in Golmud. 1.7 Golmud-Chaka with short stops. 2.7 Chaka-Heimahe-road north of Koko Nor-Xining. 3.7 Xining Beishan. Flight to Beijing in the evening. 4.7 Beijing-Copenhagen. Participants Jesper Hornskov (Tour guide; [email protected]) Ola Elleström Erik Hirschfeld Nils Kjellén (Bird and Mammal checklist) Mats Rellmar Elsy-Britt Schildt Bengt-Eric Sjölinder (Trip report including pictures unless noted as taken by Erik or Mats; [email protected]) Cover page photo Roborowski’s Rosefinch and Tibetan Sandgrouse (Erik) 2 Detailed Itinerary 16.6 We were five participants that boarded the direct SAS flight from Copenhagen to Beijing in the evening of the 15th and landed the following day in the Chinese capital at noon to catch our connecting 3pm flight to Xining where we landed at 6.30pm. -
Report of 2020 May/June China Sichuan & Tibet Plateau Wildlife Expedition
Report of 2020 May/June China Sichuan & Tibet Plateau Wildlife Expedition By Tang Jun/China Mammal Tour 16 June 2020 Sillem’s Rosefinch Brown Bear Earlier of 2020,Coronavirus Pneumonia/COVID-19 sweeps the whole globe and we are not allowed to travel around and no wildlife business.Then our team (China Mammal Tour) able to use this time finally realized our mammal expedition planned 8 years ago. Our main purpose is Sillem's Rosefinch re-discovered by Yann Muzika in 2012 and deep research some remote sites of Sichuan & Tibet Plateau where few people reached for some quality mammals. We ended with a fruitful trip and proudly announce that we are the first group of Chinese wildlife lovers who got Silem's Rosefinch and we also put some high quality mammals like Snow Leopard, Lynx, Pallas's Cat, Brown Bear, Argali, Tibetan Antelope, Wild Yak into our pocket. We start on 25 May at Chengdu and back on 12 June total 6036km. 1 Two TOYOTA 4WD Landcruisers. Participants: CMT team and several close friends. CBT team: Tang Jun, Robbi Zhu, Parus Yang, Ivan He, Jay Wu, Liu Jinsong Friends: Zhong Hongying, Yang Xiaosui, Liu Zhiyong Route: First of all,we MUST sincere show our acknowledgements to Yann,founder of the finch,Hannu & Dave who provided us the information and suggestion. Detailed report: 25 May Chengdu(500m) to Ruoergai(3500m).Stopped near Hongyuan for mammals. 560km.Stay at Tang Gu Te Hotel(4*). Chinese Serow(1),Red Deer(4),Siberian Roe Deer(6),White-eared Pheasant,Eagle Owl,Elliot's Laughingthrush,Plain Laughingthrush,Sichuan Tit,Black-necked Crane en route. -
China: Qinghai Tour
CHINA: QINGHAI TOUR 08 – 22 JUNE 2022 07 – 21 JUNE 2023 05 – 19 JUNE 2024 Grandala is one of our stunning targets on this amazing trip (photo Summer Wong). www.birdingecotours.com [email protected] 2 | ITINERARY China: Qinghai This small group tour focuses on the northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai, the fourth- largest province in China, but with the third-smallest population in the country. Known as the ‘roof of the world’, much of the province is over 9,800 feet (3,000 meters) in elevation and mostly comprised of the vast Tibetan Plateau, a magical place with an incredibly high density of interesting plateau specialist species. The highest point is Bukadaban Feng at an impressive 22,510 feet (6,860 meters). Our tour starts and ends in Xining, the capital of the province, which is also close to the huge, saline Qinghai Lake (the largest lake in China), after which the province is named. Qinghai borders Gansu to the northeast, Xinjiang to the northwest, Sichuan to the southeast, and Tibet to the southwest. Qinghai is located on the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau. The Yellow River (China’s second longest river) originates in the southern part of the province, while the Yangtze River (the longest river in Asia and third longest in the world) and Mekong River have their sources in the southwest of the province. Our two-week birdwatching tour traverses some stunning landscape in pursuit of a number of exceptional birds of this high-elevation zone, the sights of this region are truly breathtaking. The birds available on this tour include some localized species, some globally threatened species, and some absolutely stunning ones. -
Studying Land Use Intensity from the Plot to the Landscape Level
Biodivers Conserv (2015) 24:3285–3303 DOI 10.1007/s10531-015-0970-0 ORIGINAL PAPER Exploring links between culture and biodiversity: studying land use intensity from the plot to the landscape level 1 2 3 Matthias Bu¨rgi • Li Li • Thanasis Kizos Received: 6 January 2015 / Revised: 15 June 2015 / Accepted: 16 July 2015 / Published online: 29 July 2015 Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 Abstract In recent years, the term biocultural diversity has been promoted to raise awareness for the interrelationship between culture and biodiversity. Whereas the term is hard to conceptualize in general, specific links between culture and biodiversity can be explored. In this paper, we focus on land use, which is on one hand culturally coined, and has on the other hand far-reaching impacts on biodiversity. The specific effects of land use on biodiversity depend on its intensity, which can be parameterized in different way, not the least depending on the scale of observation. Based on a short review of different approaches on how to assess land use intensity (LUI), we propose a new conceptual framework reflecting the scaled nature of the linkages between land management and biodiversity. From the plot to the landscape level, different aspects of LUI are becoming relevant, some of which we illustrate with case studies from China, Greece and Switzer- land. We conclude on how the framework proposed can further our understanding on the interconnectedness of humans and their environment. Keywords Land use change Á Land use intensity (LUI) Á Landscape dynamics Á Biodiversity Á Disturbance Communicated by Mauro Agnoletti. -
A Journey Through the Tibetan Plateau 2 July – 6 August, 2016
A Journey Through the Tibetan Plateau 2 July – 6 August, 2016 PART II 1 ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF BIRDS Species highlighted in bold blue are endemic to China. H = Heard only 1. Greylag Goose Anser anser 22 July: Circa 51 counted at Donggai Cuona Lake. 2. Ph Bar-headed Goose Anser indicus 17 July: Circa 300+ at the margins of a huge area of lakes and marshes immediately south of Maduo; 22 July: Circa 1,000+ including many young at Donggai Cuona Lake; 26 July: Good numbers, including several young on the shores of Koko Nor near Heimahe and at Bird Island reserve. 31 July: Ten in wetlands along the river near Lhasa. As we noted this attractive species typically breeds on a variety of wetlands in highland plateau, generally at 4,000–5,300 m, preferably near rocky outcrops. This species’ breeding population is crudely divided into three discrete populations: The Tibetan Plateau of Qinghai Province such as around Koko Nor; Tibet Proper and the far west of China up into the Tien Shan. 3. Ph Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea 10 July: Widespread but only in small numbers (2-30) Hongyuan to Roergai. 22 July: Circa 100 with young at Donggai Cuona Lake. 26 July: Small numbers with young on the shores of Koko Nor near Heimahe and at Bird Island reserve. 4. Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina 17 July: Just one lovely male at the margins of a huge area of lakes and marshes immediately south of Maduo. 26 July: A lone female on Donggai Cuona Lake. 5. Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca 17 July: One drake at the margins of a huge area of lakes and marshes immediately south of Maduo and 26 July: As many as 40 on the shores of Koko Nor near Heimahe and at Bird Island reserve. -
Near Threatened Species NEAR THREATENED SPECIES
Near Threatened species NEAR THREATENED SPECIES 2483 Threatened birds of Asia DWARF CASSOWARY Casuarius bennetti occurs in New Guinea (Papua, formerly Irian Jaya, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) and, presumably as a long-established introduction, on New Britain, where it is a forest species occurring into the mountains and occasionally to the treeline at 3,600 m (Coates 1985, Beehler et al. 1986). Although probably tolerant of moderate habitat degradation, logging opens up previously inaccessible areas to hunters; despite heavy hunting pressure, it remains relatively common over a wide altitudinal range (Coates 1985, Beehler et al. 1986, B. M. Beehler in litt. 2000, A. Mack in litt. 1999). It is judged to have a substantial population and to be declining more slowly than the other larger and more lowland cassowaries Casuarius. Criteria nearly met: A1b,d; A2b,d. PYGMY CORMORANT Phalacrocorax pygmeus breeds in (all data for pairs, and unless otherwise indicated all information from Crivelli et al. 1996) Bulgaria (20–180), Greece (1,250– 1,310) (Kazantzidis and Nazirides 1999), Italy (30–50) (M. Passarella in litt. 1999), Moldova (30–500), Hungary, Romania (4,000–7,000), Turkey (1,000–1,500) (Eken and Magnin in press), Slovakia, Yugoslavia (1,000–1,200), F.Y.R.O. Macedonia, Croatia, Ukraine (20–320), Russia, Iran (20–30), Azerbaijan (14,749 estimated in 1986), Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzebekistan, plus, possibly, south-east Iraq, and it winters primarily in Albania, Greece, Yugoslavia, F.Y.R.O. Macedonia, Turkey, Cyprus, Iraq, Iran, Azerbaijan and also Israel, Bulgaria, Romania and Syria. There is one record from Pakistan (Grimmett et al. -
Some Bird Observations in Ganzi Prefecture Ofextreme North-West
FORKTAIL 6 (1991): 15-23 Some bird observations in Ganzi prefecture of extreme north-west Sichuan province, China BEN KING and PENG Jl TAl A brief survey of birds in Ganzi prefecture, Sichuan, in October-November 1989, resulted in records of 92 species, including two species apparently new to the Sichuan list: Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris and White-winged Snowfinch MontifringilJa nivalis. We visited Ganzi prefecture of extreme north-west Sichuan province of China from 24 October to 2 November 1989 for the purpose of doing a brief bird SUlVey.The main area worked was the Obala valley near Luoxu. Luoxu (Dainkog) lies at 3,260 m in Shiqu County in the Jinsha river valley which, at that point, forms the boundary between Sichuan and Xizang provinces. The river valley is heavily cultivated. The Obala valley extends north of Luoxu to an elevation of 4,730 m at Chawzhela Pass. A road runs right through the valley and north to Shiqu City. While most of Shiqu County is grassy steppe, there are six or seven forested valleys, of which Obala is the only one with road access. The Obala has been completely logged and now is in second-growth forest, spruce Picea on the wetter, north-facing slopes and juniper Juniperus on the drier south- facing slopes. There is a considerable amount of deciduous scrub and bushy growth throughout the valley. A number of smaIl Tibetan communities (a few buildings) exist in the valley with their fairly large herds of yaks, sheep and goats and the attendant heavy overgrazing everywhere. -
Research Article Modeling Extinction Risk of Endemic Birds of Mainland China
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Crossref Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Evolutionary Biology Volume 2013, Article ID 639635, 5 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/639635 Research Article Modeling Extinction Risk of Endemic Birds of Mainland China Youhua Chen Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4 Correspondence should be addressed to Youhua Chen; [email protected] Received 5 July 2013; Revised 20 October 2013; Accepted 4 November 2013 Academic Editor: Hirohisa Kishino Copyright © 2013 Youhua Chen. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The extinction risk of endemic birds of mainland China was modeled over evolutionary time. Results showed that extinction risk of endemic birds in mainland China always tended to be similar within subclades over the evolutionary time of species divergence, and the overall evolution of extinction risk of species presented a conservatism pattern, as evidenced by the disparity-through- time plot. A constant-rate evolutionary model was the best one to quantify the evolution of extinction risk of endemic birds of mainland China. Thus, there was no rate shifting pattern for the evolution of extinction risk of Chinese endemic birds over time. In a summary, extinction risk of endemic birds of mainland China is systematically quantified under the evolutionary framework in the present work. 1. Introduction priorities [15, 16], or threatened risk [2, 17, 18]. -
Qinghai Hoh Xil
ASIA / PACIFIC QINGHAI HOH XIL CHINA Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii) © IUCN / Chimed Ochir-Bazarsad China – Qinghai Hoh Xil WORLD HERITAGE NOMINATION – IUCN TECHNICAL EVALUATION QINGHAI HOH XIL (CHINA) – ID N° 1540 IUCN RECOMMENDATION TO WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE: To inscribe the property under natural criteria. Key paragraphs of Operational Guidelines: Paragraph 77: Nominated property meets World Heritage criteria. Paragraph 78: Nominated property meets integrity, protection and management requirements. 1. DOCUMENTATION Schaller G.B., and Wulin L. 1996. Distribution, status and conservation of wild yak Bos grunniens. Biological a) Date nomination received by IUCN: 24 March Conservation 76: 1-8. Qi D., Chao Y., Guo S., Zhao L., 2016 Li T., WeiF., and Zhao X. 2012. Convergent, Parallel and Correlated Evolution of Trophic Morphologies in b) Additional information officially requested from the Subfamily Schizothoracinae from the Qinghai- and provided by the State Party: Following the IUCN Tibetan Plateau. PLoS One 7(3): e34070. WWF (2016) World Heritage Panel a progress report was sent to List of ecoregions. Downloaded from the State Party on 20 December 2016. This letter http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/ecoregions/ecor advised on the status of the evaluation process and egion_list/, accessed in November 2016. sought responses/clarifications on a range of issues including clarifications in relation to the delimitation of d) Consultations: 14 desk reviews received. The the property, the justification of boundaries, future mission met with a wide range of stakeholders plans and management of the transport corridor that including national level officials from the Ministry of crosses the area, commitments in relation to traditional Housing and Urban-Rural Development and a range of communities within the nominated property, and senior technical specialists and scientists. -
The India Checklist
The India Checklist VOL. 11 NOS. 5 & 6 | Vol. 11 Nos. 5 & 6 11 | Vol. BIRDS Indian CONTENTS Indian BIRDS 113 A checklist of the birds of India www.indianbirds.in VOL. 11 NOS. 5 & 6 Praveen J., Rajah Jayapal & Aasheesh Pittie DATE OF PUBLICATION: 14 JULY 2016 Introduction ISSN 0973-1407 113 How to use the India Checklist EDITOR: Aasheesh Pittie 118 [email protected] The India Checklist ASSOCIATE EDITORS: V. Santharam, Praveen J. 123 EDITORIAL BOARD Appendix 1. List of bird species known/presumed/hypothesised to occur in South Asia, Maan Barua, Anwaruddin Choudhury 165 Bill Harvey, Farah Ishtiaq, Rajah Jayapal, Girish Jathar but excluded from the India Checklist either for want of corroboration, or on account of Ragupathy Kannan, Madhusudan Katti their absence from Indian limits R. Suresh Kumar, Taej Mundkur, Rishad Naoroji Prasad Ganpule, Suhel Quader Appendix 2. List of bird species endemic to India Harkirat Singh Sangha, C. Sashikumar 169 Manoj Sharma, S. Subramanya, K. S. Gopi Sundar 172 Index CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Clement Francis, Ramki Sreenivasan LAYOUT & COVER DESIGN: K. Jayaram OffICE: P. Rambabu Editorial NEW ORNIS FOUNDATION The publication of the India Checklist is a milestone for Indian Registration No. 314/2004 ornithology—as it is a first. Ideally, a rarities committee is an essential part of such an exercise. It’s brief is to whet records that FOUNDER TRUSTEES Zafar Futehally (1920–2013) add new species to the country list, or grapple with the provenance Aasheesh Pittie, V. Santharam of those that perch on the branch of hypotheticals. Since such a committee does not exist in India, the authors of this checklist TRUSTEES were at pains—communicating worldwide with specialists, original Aasheesh Pittie, V. -
The Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau and the Himalayas
Received: 16 January 2020 | Revised: 12 June 2020 | Accepted: 29 June 2020 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6615 ORIGINAL RESEARCH “Into and Out of” the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Himalayas: Centers of origin and diversification across five clades of Eurasian montane and alpine passerine birds Martin Päckert1 | Adrien Favre2 | Jan Schnitzler3,4 | Jochen Martens5 | Yue-Hua Sun6 | Dieter Thomas Tietze7,8 | Frank Hailer9,10 | Ingo Michalak4 | Patrick Strutzenberger1,11 1Senckenberg Natural History Collections, Museum of Zoology, Dresden, Germany 2Entomology III, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 3German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 4Department of Molecular Evolution and Plant Systematics & Herbarium (LZ), Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany 5Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany 6Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 7Natural History Museum Basel, Basel, Switzerland 8Centrum für Naturkunde, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany 9School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 10Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 11Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria Correspondence Martin Päckert, Senckenberg Natural Abstract History Collections, Museum of Zoology, Encompassing some of the major -
Qinghai-Tibet Birding Tour & Lhasa Extension
Qinghai-Tibet Birding Tour & Lhasa Extension 14 Days Classic Qinghai-Tibet Birding Tour Jun 20 - Jul 3, 2021 4 Days Lhasa Culture & Birding Extension Jul 3-6, 2021 Outline: Qinghai Section ·Day 1: Xining, Qinghai, China ·Day 2: Xining / Huzhu Beishan ·Day 3: Huzhu Beishan ·Day 4: Huzhu Beishan / Heimahe ·Day 5: Heimahe / Chaka ·Day 6-7: Chaka ·Day 8: Chaka / Wenquan ·Day 9: Wenquan / Maduo ·Day 10: Maduo / Yushu ·Day 11: Yushu / Nangqian ·Day 12: Nangqian ·Day 13: Nangqian / Yushu ·Day 14: Yushu / Depart Tibetan Partridge Outline: Lhasa Section ·Day 1: Lhasa, Tibet, China ·Day 2-3: Lhasa and surrounds ·Day 4: Lhasa / Depart Tibetan Eared Pheasant [email protected]; www.alpinebirding.com 2 14 Days Classic Qinghai-Tibet Birding Tour Jun 20 - Jul 3, 2021 Overview: Our trip starts in Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province, followed by about 14 days birding in some carefully-picked sites. The high elevation has made this vast and sparsely populated plateau different from tropical areas in the regard of bird varieties, only a small group of bird species can survive in the highland. So this trip will highlight the real endemics and plateau specials instead of varieties, we can expect birds like Hume's Ground Jay, Tibetan Rosefinch, Tibetan Snowcock, Buff-throated Partridge, Tibetan Lark, Tibetan Bunting, etc. Though the birding on the high-elevation and remote areas is quite tough, we will be rewarded by the good view of some rare endemics you can only see them here beside the stunning landscapes, beautiful wildflowers, authentic Tibetan culture and different wild animal flocks.