Lhasa and the Tibetan Plateau Cumulative Bird List Column A: Total number of tours (out of 6) that the species was recorded Column B: Total number of days that the species was recorded on the 2016 tour Column C: Maximum daily count for that particular species on the 2016 tour Column D: H = Heard Only; (H) = Heard more than seen Globally threatened species as defined by BirdLife International (2004) Threatened birds of the world 2004 CD-Rom Cambridge, U.K. BirdLife International are identified as follows: EN = Endangered; VU = Vulnerable; NT = Near- threatened. A B C D 6 Greylag Goose 2 15 Anser anser 6 Bar-headed Goose 4 300 Anser indicus 3 Whooper Swan 1 2 Cygnus cygnus 1 Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna 6 Ruddy Shelduck 8 700 Tadorna ferruginea 3 Gadwall 2 3 Anas strepera 1 Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope 5 Mallard 2 8 Anas platyrhynchos 2 Eastern Spot-billed Duck Anas zonorhyncha 1 Indian or Eastern Spot-billed Duck Anas poecilorhynchos or A. zonorhyncha 1 Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata 1 Northern Pintail Anas acuta 1 Garganey 2 15 Anas querquedula 4 Eurasian Teal 2 50 Anas crecca 6 Red-crested Pochard 3 2000 Netta rufina 6 Common Pochard 2 200 Aythya ferina 3 Ferruginous Duck NT 1 8 Aythya nyroca 6 Tufted Duck 2 200 Aythya fuligula 5 Common Goldeneye 2 11 Bucephala clangula 4 Common Merganser 3 51 Mergus merganser 5 Chinese Grouse NT 2 1 Tetrastes sewerzowi 4 Verreaux's Monal-Partridge 1 1 H Tetraophasis obscurus 5 Tibetan Snowcock 1 5 H Tetraogallus tibetanus 4 Przevalski's Partridge 1 1 Alectoris magna 1 Daurian Partridge Perdix dauurica 6 Tibetan Partridge 2 11 Perdix hodgsoniae ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 China Lhasa Cumulative Bird List… 2 6 Tibetan Eared Pheasant NT 1 51 Crossoptilon harmani 4 Blue Eared Pheasant 2 8 Crossoptilon auritum 6 Common Pheasant 3 3 Phasianus colchicus strauchi 1 Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis 6 Great Crested Grebe 4 210 Podiceps cristatus 1 Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus 6 Black-necked Grebe 2 43 Podiceps nigricollis 1 Black-cowned Night Heron 1 4 Nycticorax nycticorax 2 Chinese Pond Heron Ardeola bacchus 4 Eastern Cattle Egret Bubulcus coromandus 6 Grey Heron 3 6 Ardea cinerea 2 Great Egret 1 2 Egreta alba 6 Great Cormorant 3 200 Phalacrocorax carbo 6 Bearded Vulture 4 3 Gypaetus barbatus 6 Himalayan Vulture 8 40 Gyps himalayensis 2 Cinereous Vulture NT Aegypius monachus 6 Golden Eagle 3 2 Aquila chrysaetos 4 Eurasian Sparrowhawk 2 2 Accipiter nisus 3 Northern Goshawk 1 1 Accipiter gentilis 3 Accipter sp. Accipter sp. 6 Black Kite 5 4 Milvus migrans 6 Pallas's Fish Eagle VU 1 1 Haliaeetus leucoryphus 6 Upland Buzzard 6 95 Buteo hemilasius 6 Himalayan Buzzard 1 1 Buteo burmanicus 4 Common Moorhen 1 8 Gallinula chloropus 6 Eurasian Coot 3 250 Fulica atra 6 Black-necked Crane VU 4 23 Grus nigricollis 1 Ibisbill 1 3 Ibidorhyncha struthersii 3 Black-winged Stilt 2 10 Himantopus himantopus 1 Pied Avocet 1 20 Recurvirostra avosetta 2 Northern Lapwing 2 3 Vanellus vanellus 3 Pacific Golden Plover 2 1 Pluvialis fulva 1 Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula 3 Little Ringed Plover 4 4 Charadrius dubius 6 Kentish Plover 5 40 Charadrius alexandrinus 6 Lesser Sand Plover 1 5 Charadrius mongolus schaeferi 3 Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii 1 Pin-tailed or Swinhoe's Snipe 1 1 Gallinago stenura or G. megala 1 Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago 5 Black-tailed Godwit NT 3 30 Limosa limosa 2 Eurasian Curlew NT Numenius arquata ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 China Lhasa Cumulative Bird List… 3 3 Spotted Redshank 1 9 Tringa erythropus 6 Common Redshank 4 70 Tringa totanus 6 Common Greenshank 3 6 Tringa nebularia 6 Green Sandpiper 4 3 Tringa ochropus 6 Wood Sandpiper 4 25 Tringa glareola 1 Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus 6 Common Sandpiper 1 8 Actitis hypoleucos 1 Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis 2 Little Stint 1 21 Calidris minuta 6 Temminck's Stint 3 168 Calidris temminckii 2 Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta 2 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 1 1 Calidris acuminata 5 Curlew Sandpiper 3 4 Calidris ferruginea 1 Ruff Philomachus pugnax 6 Brown-headed Gull 5 300 Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus 6 Black-headed Gull 2 1 Chroicocephalus ridibundus 1 Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus 6 Pallas's Gull 5 100 Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus 2 Vega Gull 1 1 Larus vegae 1 Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia 1 Little Tern Sternula albifrons 6 Common Tern 6 50 Sterna hirundo 4 Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida 2 White-winged Tern 2 1 Chlidonias leucopterus 1 Tibetan Sandgrouse Syrrhaptes tibetanus 1 Pallas's Sandgrouse Syrrhaptes paradoxus 6 Rock Dove 5 60 Columba livia 6 Hill Pigeon 10 56 Columba rupestris 6 Oriental Turtle Dove 4 13 Streptopelia orientalis 6 Eurasian Collared Dove 5 12 Streptopelia decaocto 5 Spotted Dove 1 1 Spilopelia chinensis 4 Common Cuckoo 2 5 Cuculus canorus 1 Eurasian Eagle-owl 2 2 (H) Bubo bubo 5 Little Owl 2 1 Athene noctua 6 Common Swift 2 60 Apus apus 6 Salim Ali's Swift 4 50 Apus salimalii 6 Eurasian Hoopoe 9 420 Upupa epops 3 Eurasian Wryneck 1 1 Jynx torquilla 1 Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Dendrocopos canicapillus 6 Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 1 Dendrocopos major beicki 4 Black Woodpecker 2 2 (H) Dryocopus martius ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 China Lhasa Cumulative Bird List… 4 5 Grey-headed Woodpecker 2 1 Picus canus 6 Common Kestrel 7 4 Falco tinnunculus 2 Amur Falcon Falco amurensis 5 Eurasian Hobby 2 1 Falco subbuteo 6 Saker Falcon EN 4 42 Falco cherrug 4 Brown Shrike 2 1 Lanius cristatus 6 Isabelline Shrike 1 2 Lanius isabellinus saidamensis 6 Grey-backed Shrike 8 13 Lanius tephronotus 1 Chinese Grey Shrike Lanius sphenocercus 4 Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus 6 Eurasian Jay 2 4 (H) Garrulus glandarius kansuensis 5 Azure-winged Magpie 4 25 Cyanopica cyanus 6 Eurasian Magpie 9 9 Pica pica 6 Henderson's Ground Jay 1 3 Podoces hendersoni 6 Red-billed Chough 11 150 Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax 3 Daurian Jackdaw Coloeus dauuricus 3 Rook Corvus frugilegus 4 Carrion Crow Corvus corone orientalis 6 Large-billed Crow 3 6 Corvus macrorhynchos 6 Northern Raven 2 203 Corvus corax 4 Rufous-vented Tit 1 4 Periparus rubidiventris 6 Grey Crested Tit 2 5 Lophophanes dichrous 6 White-browed Tit 2 6 Poecile superciliosus 1 Marsh Tit Poecile palustris 6 Willow Tit 2 15 Poecile montanus 6 Ground Tit 7 100 Parus humilis 6 Japanese Tit 4 8 Parus minor tibetanus 3 Bearded Reedling 1 2 Panurus biarmicus russicus 6 Oriental Skylark 5 ##### Alauda gulgula 5 Crested Lark Galerida cristata 6 Horned Lark 7 30 Eremophila alpestris 6 Hume's Short-toed Lark 1 4 Calandrella acutirostris 1 Greater Short-toed Lark 5 125 Calandrella brachydactyla dukhunensis 6 Mongolian Lark 1 7 Melanocorypha mongolica 6 Tibetan Lark 1 6 Melanocorypha maxima 1 Asian Short-toed Lark Calandrella cheleensis 3 Light-vented Bulbul 1 2 Pycnonotus sinensis 6 Pale Martin 6 100 Riparia diluta 6 Eurasian Crag Martin 5 25 Ptyonoprogne rupestris 6 Barn Swallow 3 15 Hirundo rustica 6 Asian House Martin 5 40 Delichon dasypus cashmeriense ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 China Lhasa Cumulative Bird List… 5 2 Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica 1 Silver-throated Bushtit Aegithalos glaucogularis 6 White-browed Tit-warbler 3 6 Leptopoecile sophiae 1 Dusky Warbler 1 1 Phylloscopus fuscatus 6 Smoky Warbler 1 2 Phylloscopus fuligiventer weigoldi 6 Tickell's Leaf Warbler 2 4 Phylloscopus affinis 6 Alpine Leaf Warbler 7 8 Phylloscopus occisinensis 6 Yellow-streaked Warbler 2 10 Phylloscopus armandii 5 Buff-barred Warbler Phylloscopus pulcher 6 Gansu Leaf Warbler 2 10 (H) Phylloscopus kansuensis 2 Chinese Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus yunnanensis 3 Yellow-browed Warbler 1 1 H Phylloscopus inornatus 6 Hume's Leaf Warbler 3 20 (H) Phylloscopus humei 6 Greenish Warbler 2 16 (H) Phylloscopus trochiloides obscuratus 5 Large-billed Leaf Warbler 1 1 H Phylloscopus magnirostris 5 Spotted Bush Warbler 3 4 (H) Locustella thoracica 6 Plain Laughingthrush 3 5 Garrulax davidi 6 Elliot's Laughingthrush 3 15 (H) Trochalopteron elliotii 6 Brown-cheeked Laughingthrush 1 40 Trochalopteron henrici 6 Giant Babax 1 21 Babax waddelli 1 Lesser Whitethroat 1 1 Sylvia curruca margelanica 1 Goldcrest 2 2 Regulus regulus 6 Eurasian Wren 1 1 H Troglodytes troglodytes 6 Chinese Nuthatch 2 4 Sitta villosa 6 Przevalski's Nuthatch 1 4 Sitta przewalskii 2 Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria 6 Eurasian Treecreeper 2 4 Certhia familiaris bianchii 1 Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus 2 White-cheeked Starling Spodiopsar cineraceus 2 Rosy Starling Pastor roseus 6 Tibetan Blackbird 2 4 Turdus maximus 5 Chestnut Thrush 2 3 Turdus rubrocanus 5 Kessler's Thrush 2 1 Turdus kessleri 2 Chinese Thrush 1 1 Turdus mupinensis 2 Grey-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta 1 Asian Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa latirostris 4 White-bellied Redstart 1 2 Hodgsonius phoenicuroides 1 White-tailed Rubythroat Luscinia pectoralis tschebaiewi 5 Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliope 6 Red-flanked Bluetail 2 15 Tarsiger cyanurus albocoeruleus 2 Slaty-backed Flycatcher 1 1 Ficedula hodgsonii ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N.