West by southeast

Asian Glossy Starling (D. Fettes)

I've been back in the UK for four days since coming back from Taiwan. I hit the ground running with wall to wall writing deadlines, talk designing and meetings. I managed to spend some quality time at The Scrubs, but more about that tomorrow, especially seeing that I am leading a London Natural History Society walk there tomorrow morning.

Anyway, I have had a few requests for a species list of the birds I saw whilst in Taiwan. For those of a less listy disposition please look away now:

[denotes an escaped species]
((denotes heard))

Dabchick

[Sacred Ibis]

Black-faced Spoonbill

Yellow Bittern

Cinnamon Bittern

Malayan Night Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

Chinese Pond Heron

Eastern Cattle Egret

Great White Egret

Intermediate Egret

Little Egret

Pacific Reef Heron

Grey Heron

 ((Taiwan Hill Partridge))

 ((Chinese Bamboo Partridge))

Swinhoe’s Pheasant

Ring-necked Pheasant

Eastern Spot-billed Duck

Peregrine

Oriental Honey Buzzard

Osprey

Black-shouldered Kite

Black-eared Kite

Crested Serpent Eagle

Crested Goshawk

Poss. Chinese Sparrowhawk

Besra

Poss. Eastern Buzzard

White-breasted Waterhen

Common Moorhen

Black-winged Stilt

Avocet

Pacific Golden Plover

Kentish Plover

Little Ringed Plover

Lesser Sand Plover

Pheasant-tailed Jacana

Whimbrel

Curlew

Redshank

Marsh Sandpiper

Greenshank

Terek Sandpiper

Common Sandpiper

Grey-tailed Tattler

Turnstone

Great Knot

Red-necked Stint

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

Curlew Sandpiper

Dunlin

Oriental Pratincole

Black-tailed Gull

Little Tern

Whiskered Term

White-winged Black Tern

Feral Pigeon

Oriental Turtle Dove

Red Turtle Dove

Spotted Dove

Emerald Dove

Oriental Cuckoo

Lesser Coucal

 ((Savanna Nightjar))

Silver-backed Needletail

House Swift

Common Kingfisher

Taiwan Barbet

Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker

Fairy Pitta

Grey-chinned Minivet

Brown Shrike

Long-tailed Shrike

Black Drongo

Bronzed Drongo

 ((Black-naped Monarch))

Taiwan Blue Magpie

Grey Treepie

Black-billed Magpie

Large-billed Crow

Yellow Tit

Grey-throated Martin

Sand Martin

Barn Swallow

Pacific Swallow

Asian House Martin

Striated Swallow

Oriental Skylark

Zitting Cisticola

Yellow-bellied Prinia

Plain Prinia

Collared Finchbill

Chinese Bulbul

Himalayan Black Bulbul

Rufous-faced Warbler

Black-necklaced Scimitar Babbler

Taiwan Scimitar Babbler

Rufous-capped Babbler

White-whiskered Laughing Thrush

Steere’s Liocichla

Dusky Fulvetta

Grey-cheeked Fulvetta

Taiwan Sibia

Taiwan Yuhina

Japanese White-eye

Asian Glossy Starling

 [Great Myna]

Crested Myna

 [Jungle Myna]

 [Common Myna]

 [Black-collared Starling]

 [Asian Pied Starling]

Taiwan Whistling Thrush

Johnstone’s Robin

 [Oriental Magpie Robin]

[White-rumped Shama]

Plumbeous Redstart

White-tailed Robin

Blue Rock Thrush

Brown Dipper

Tree Sparrow

White-rumped Munia

Scaly-breasted Munia

Eastern Yellow Wagtail

White Wagtail

Vinaceous Rosefinch

117 species (excluding exotics)

61 lifers