Big Year in Xinjiang. Rick Wang. Birds of Xinjiang, China

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1. House Sparrow (2025-01-01)

2. Cinereous Vulture (2025-01-02)

3. Solitary Snipe (2025-01-02)

4. Brown Accentor (2025-01-05)

5. Black-throated Accentor (2025-01-05)

6. Chukar Partridge (2025-01-05)

7. White-browned Tit Warber (2025-01-05)

8. Golden Eagle (2025-01-05)

9. White-tailed Sea Eagle (2025-01-09)

10. Tufted Duck (2025-01-09)

11. Smew (2025-01-09)

12. Gadwall (2025-01-09)

13. Red-crested Pochard (2025-01-09)

14. Northern Shoveler (2025-01-09)

15. Eurasian Teal (2025-01-09)

16. Common Merganser (2025-01-09)

17. Common Shelduck (2025-01-09)

18. Northern Pintail (2025-01-09)

19. Great Crested Grebe (2025-01-09)

20. Common Pochard (2025-01-09)

21. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-01-09)

22. Ferruginous Pochard (2025-01-09)

23. Common Crane (2025-01-09)

24. Common Moorhen (2025-01-09)

25. Black-headed Gull (2025-01-09)

26. Greater White-fronted Goose (2025-01-10)

27. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-01-10)

28. Western Marsh Harrier (2025-01-10)

29. Green Sandpiper (2025-01-10)

30. Chinese Spot-billed Duck (2025-01-10)

31. Water Pipit (2025-01-10)

32. Little Grebe (2025-01-10)

33. Great Cormorant (2025-01-10)

34. Graylag Goose (2025-01-10)

35. Great Egret (2025-01-10)

36. Yellow-legged Gull (2025-01-10)

37. Eurasian Coot (2025-01-11)

38. Great Bittern (2025-01-11)

39. Common Buzzard (2025-01-11)

40. Spanish Sparrow (2025-01-11)

41. Black Stork (2025-01-11)

42. Black Kite (2025-01-11)

43. Common Kestrel (2025-01-11)

44. Northern Lapwing (2025-01-11)

45. White Wagtail (2025-01-11)

46. Grey Heron (2025-01-11)

47. Eurasian Tree Sparrow (2025-01-11)

48. Swan Goose (2025-01-11)

49. Azure Tit (2025-01-11)

50. Black-crowned Night Heron (2025-01-11)

51. Steppe Eagle (2025-01-13)

52. Carrion Crow (2025-01-13)

53. Redwing (2025-01-15)

54. Bearded Reedling (2025-01-15)

55. Great Gray Shrike (2025-01-15)

56. Long-eared Owl (2025-01-15)

57. Grey Partridge (2025-01-17)

58. Tundra Swan (2025-01-18)

59. Common Goldeneye (2025-01-18)

60. Reed Bunting (2025-01-18)

61. Hooded Crow (2025-01-18)

62. Naumann's Thrush (2025-01-20)

63. European Greenfinch (2025-01-20)

64. European Robin (2025-01-20)

65. Greater Scaup (2025-01-22)

66. Mew Gull (2025-01-22)

67. Mongolian Gull (2025-01-22)

68. Water Rail (2025-01-22)

69. Pallas's Gull (2025-01-22)

70. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-01-22)

71. Mallard (2025-01-22)

72. Eversmann's Redstart (2025-01-22)

73. White-throated Dipper (2025-01-25)

74. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-01-25)

75. Ural Owl (2025-01-25)

76. Boreal Owl (2025-01-26)

77. Eurasian Siskin (2025-01-30)

78. Brambling (2025-01-30)

79. White-winged Woodpecker (2025-01-30)

80. Goldcrest (2025-01-30)

81. Common Blackbird (2025-01-30)

82. Peregrine Falcon (2025-01-31)

83. Little Owl (2025-02-01)

84. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-02-01)

85. Ibisbill (2025-02-01)

86. White-winged Redstart (2025-02-01)

87. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2025-02-01)

88. Eurasian Wren (2025-02-01)

89. Red-fronted Serin (2025-02-01)

90. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-02-01)

91. Stock Dove (2025-02-01)

92. Whooper Swan (2025-02-01)

93. Red-billed Chough (2025-02-03)

94. Rock Dove (2025-02-03)

95. Black Lark (2025-02-03)

96. Rock Sparrow (2025-02-03)

97. Horned Lark (2025-02-03)

98. Fieldfare (2025-02-03)

99. Rough-legged Hawk (2025-02-04)

100. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2025-02-04)

101. Eurasian Treecreeper (2025-02-04)

102. Black Woodpecker (2025-02-04)

103. Grey-headed Woodpecker (2025-02-05)

104. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2025-02-05)

105. White-backed Woodpecker (2025-02-05)

106. Eurasian Nuthatch (2025-02-05)

107. European Goldfinch (2025-02-06)

108. Eurasian Bullfinch (2025-02-06)

109. Silver-throated Bushtit (2025-02-06)

110. Common Wood Pigeon (2025-02-06)

111. Hen Harrier (2025-02-06)

112. Great Tit (2025-02-06)

113. Saker Falcon (2025-02-07)

114. White-winged Grosbeak (2025-02-07)

115. Coal Tit (2025-02-07)

116. Common Chaffinch (2025-02-07)

117. Eastern Buzzard (2025-02-07)

118. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-02-07)

119. Rook (2025-02-07)

120. Mongolian Ground Jay (2025-02-07)

121. Eurasian Woodcock (2025-02-18)

122. Himalayan Griffon (2025-02-18)

123. Eurasian Sparrow Hawk (2025-03-03)

124. Common Myna (2025-03-03)

125. Common Starling (2025-03-03)

126. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-03-03)

127. Eurasian Magpie (2025-03-03)

128. Mistle Thrush (2025-03-03)

129. Black-throated Thrush (2025-03-03)

130. Azure-winged Magpie (2025-03-08)

131. Yellowhammer (2025-03-09)

132. Pine Bunting (2025-03-09)

133. Godlewski's Bunting (2025-03-09)

134. Plain Mountain Finch (2025-03-09)

135. Wallcreeper (2025-03-09)

136. Common Chiff-chaff (2025-03-13)

137. Xinjiang Ground Jay (2025-03-14)

138. Crested Lark (2025-03-14)

139. Greater Spotted Eagle (2025-03-15)

140. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-03-15)

141. Isabelline Shrike (2025-03-15)

142. Common Pheasant (2025-03-15)

143. Desert Finch (2025-03-16)

144. Common Hoopoe (2025-03-16)

145. Tarim Babbler (2025-03-17)

146. Saxaul Sparrow (2025-03-17)

147. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2025-03-17)

148. Garganey (2025-03-17)

149. Black-necked Grebe (2025-03-18)

150. Citrine Wagtail (2025-03-18)

151. Blue Whistling Thrush (2025-03-19)

152. Eurasian Crag Martin (2025-03-19)

153. Common Raven (2025-03-19)

154. Cetti's Warbler (2025-03-20)

155. Common Redshank (2025-03-20)

156. Black-winged Stilt (2025-03-20)

157. Asian Short-toed Lark (2025-03-20)

158. Buff-bellied Pipit (2025-03-20)

159. Little Ringed Plover (2025-03-21)

160. Laughing Dove (2025-03-23)

161. Kentish Plover (2025-03-23)

162. Booted Eagle (2025-03-24)

163. Pale Sand Swallow (2025-03-24)

164. Desert Wheatear (2025-03-26)

165. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-03-26)

166. Twite (2025-03-26)

167. Mongolian Finch (2025-03-26)

168. Hill Pigeon (2025-03-26)

169. Alpine Chough (2025-03-26)

170. Rufous-naped Tit (2025-03-26)

171. Lammergeier (2025-03-26)

172. Himalayan Snowcock (2025-03-26)

173. Common Swift (2025-03-29)

174. Steppe Grey Shrike (2025-03-30)

175. Desert Whitethroat (2025-03-30)

176. Bluethroat (2025-04-01)

177. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-04-05)

178. Barn Swallow (2025-04-06)

179. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-04-07)

180. Pied Avocet (2025-04-07)

181. Common Tern (2025-04-07)

182. Pallid Scops Owl (2025-04-09)

183. White-winged Snowfinch (2025-04-10)

184. Black Redstart (2025-04-10)

185. Spotted Great Rosefinch (2025-04-10)

186. Northern Wheatear (2025-04-10)

187. Pied Wheatear (2025-04-10)

188. Black-bellied Sandgrouse (2025-04-14)

189. Greater Short-toed Lark (2025-04-14)

190. Eurasian Skylark (2025-04-14)

191. Eurasian Scops Owl (2025-04-14)

192. Rufous-tailed Shrike (2025-04-14)

193. Corn Bunting (2025-04-14)

194. Tawny Pipit (2025-04-14)

195. Bimaculated Lark (2025-04-17)

196. Northern House Martin (2025-04-17)

197. Hume's Leaf Warbler (2025-04-17)

198. Grey Wagtail (2025-04-17)

199. Demoiselle Crane (2025-04-17)

200. Common Cuckoo (2025-04-21)

201. Daurian Partridge (2025-04-21)

202. Great Reed Warbler (2025-04-21)

203. Common Sandpiper (2025-04-21)

204. Caspian Tern (2025-04-21)

205. Lesser Kestrel (2025-04-22)

206. Siberian Stonechat (2025-04-22)

207. Western Osprey (2025-04-26)

208. Eurasian Curlew (2025-04-26)

209. Greater Sand Plover (2025-04-26)

210. Western Yellow Wagtail (2025-04-26)

211. Little Tern (2025-04-26)

212. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2025-04-30)

213. Little Bittern (2025-04-30)

214. Barred Warbler (2025-04-30)

215. Sykes' Warbler (2025-05-01)

216. Common Kingfisher (2025-05-01)

217. Mute Swan (2025-05-01)

218. Common Nightingale (2025-05-01)

219. Shikra (2025-05-01)

220. Common Quail (2025-05-02)

221. European Roller (2025-05-02)

222. Brown-headed Bunting (2025-05-02)

223. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-05-02)

224. Tree Pipit (2025-05-02)

225. Blue Rock Thrush (2025-05-02)

226. Common Linnet (2025-05-02)

227. Rock Bunting (2025-05-02)

228. Ortolan Bunting (2025-05-02)

229. European Bee-eater (2025-05-02)

230. Richard' s Pipit (2025-05-02)

231. Short-toed Snake Eagle (2025-05-02)

232. Eurasian Wryneck (2025-05-03)

233. Black Tern (2025-05-04)

234. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-07)

235. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2025-05-12)

236. European Nightjar (2025-05-13)

237. Asian Desert Warbler (2025-05-16)

238. Pacific Golden Plover (2025-05-16)

239. Spotted Redshank (2025-05-16)

240. Terek Sandpiper (2025-05-16)

241. Common Greenshank (2025-05-16)

242. Temminck's Stint (2025-05-16)

243. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-16)

244. White-headed Duck (2025-05-16)

245. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-05-17)

246. Grey-necked Bunting (2025-05-17)

247. Sulphur-bellied Warbler (2025-05-17)

248. Upland Buzzard (2025-05-17)

249. Booted Warbler (2025-05-17)

250. Red-backed Shrike (2025-05-17)

251. Savi's Warbler (2025-05-17)

252. Common Snipe (2025-05-17)

253. Common Redstart (2025-05-18)

254. Greater Whitethroat (2025-05-18)

255. Eurasian Golden Oriole (2025-05-18)

256. Whimbrel (2025-05-18)

257. Gull-billed Tern (2025-05-18)

258. Corncrake (2025-05-18)

259. Sand Martin (2025-05-19)

260. Red-footed Falcon (2025-05-19)

261. Horned Grebe (2025-05-19)

262. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-05-19)

263. Grey Plover (2025-05-19)

264. Eurasian Oystercatcher (2025-05-20)

265. Whiskered Tern (2025-05-23)

266. Collared Pratincole (2025-05-23)

267. Rosy Starling (2025-05-23)

268. Eurasian Hobby (2025-05-26)

269. Blue-capped Redstart (2025-05-26)

270. Songar Tit (2025-05-26)

271. Greenish Warbler (2025-05-26)

272. Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker (2025-05-26)

273. Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler (2025-05-30)

274. White-winged Tern (2025-06-01)

275. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-06-02)

276. Eastern Yellow Wagtail (2025-06-02)

277. Crested Honey-buzzard (2025-06-02)

recent uploads

2025-06-02. Black Tern, White-winged Tern, Dalmatian Pelican, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Crested Honey-buzzard.

2025-06-01. Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler.

2025-05-27. Eurasian Hobby, Blue-capped Redstart, Songar Tit, Greenish Warbler, Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker.

2025-05-23. Whiskered Tern, Collared Pratincole, Rosy Starling, Little Owl, White-crowned Penduline Tit.

2025-05-20. Sand Martin, Red-footed Falcon, Horned Grebe, Ruddy Turnstone, Grey Plover, White-headed Duck, Eurasian Oystercatcher.

2025-05-19. Common Redstart, Greater Whitethroat, Eurasian Golden Oriole, Whimbrel, Gull-billed Tern, Corncrake.

2025-05-18. Spotted Flycatcher, Grey-necked Bunting, Sulphur-bellied Warbler, Upland Buzzard, Booted Warbler, Red-backed Shrike, Savi's Warbler, Common Snipe.

2025-05-17. Asian Desert Warbler, Pacific Golden Plover, Spotted Redshank, Terek Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Temminck's Stint, Blyth's Reed Warbler.

2025-05-13. Eurasian Stone Curlew, European Nightjar.

2025-05-07. Common Rosefinch, Oriental Turtle Dove.

2025-05-05. Black Tern, Paddyfield Warbler.

2025-05-03. Short-toed Snake Eagle, Eurasian Wryneck.

2025-05-02. Sykes' Warbler, Common Kingfisher, Mute Swan, Common Nightingale, Shikra, Common Quail, European Roller, Brown-headed Bunting, Lesser Grey Shrike, Tree Pipit, Blue Rock Thrush, Common Linnet, Rock Bunting, Ortolan Bunting, European Bee-eater, Richard' s Pipit, Short-toed Snake Eagle.

2025-04-30. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Little Bittern, Barred Warbler.

2025-04-27. Western Osprey, Eurasian Curlew, Greater Sand Plover, Western Yellow Wagtail, Little Tern.

Big Year 2025

1. Rick Wang (276)
2. AhuiVision (192)
3. dinmin (142)
4. yang feifei (135)
5. Yang (133)
6. YXSHZ wolf (128)
7. Black lark (86)
8. hongliangyang (85)
9. lixiangren (70)
10. Rezaq Hassan (69)

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rare birds records

Pygmy Cormorant (Microcarbo pygmeus)

Dec. 28, 2018, LIU Zhongde found this species in Manas River wetland.

Pied Bushchat (Saxicola caprata)

15 Sept 2018, shot from Dafdar,Tashkurghan has been confirmed a new record in Xinjiang.

Sinai Rosefinch (Carpodacus synoicus)

Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea)

27 May 2018, photo by Allan from Kuntibes,Akto has been confirmed a new record in Xinjiang.

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2025-04-22

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2025-04-16

Дмитрий Коробов: Aythya marila (Linnaeus, 1761)Greater Scaup

2025-04-16

Дмитрий Коробов: Anas formosa (Georgi, 1775)Baikal Teal

2025-04-04

Ольга Васик: Anas formosa (Georgi, 1775)Baikal Teal

2025-03-31