Bird List for Chongming Island, Shanghai in August
English Name |
Latin Name |
Number |
Little Grebe |
Podiceps ruficollis poggei |
+++ |
Grey Heron |
Ardea cinerea |
++ |
Purple Heron |
Ardea purpurea manilensis |
+ |
Green-backed Heron |
Butorides striatus |
++ |
Chinese Pond Heron |
Ardeola bacchus |
++ |
Cattle Egret |
Bubulcus ibus |
+ |
Great Egret |
Egretta a. alba |
++ |
Intermediate Egret |
Egretta intermedia |
++ |
Little Egret |
Egretta garzetta |
+++ |
Swinhoe’s Egret |
Egretta eulophotes |
+ |
Black-faced Spoonbill |
Platalea minor |
+ |
Moorhen |
Gollinula chloropus |
++ |
Palaearctic Oystercatcher |
Haematopns ostralegus osculans |
+ |
Black-winged Stilt |
Himantopus h. Himantopus |
+ |
Eastern Collared Pratincole |
Glareola maldivarum |
++ |
Grey Plover |
Pluvialius squaiarola |
++ |
Pacific Golden Plover |
Pluvialius dominica |
++ |
Ringed Plover |
Charadrius hiaticula |
++ |
Little Ringed Plover |
Charadrius dubius |
++ |
Kentish Plover |
Charadrius alexandrinus |
+++ |
Lesser Sand Plover |
Charadrius monholus |
+++ |
Great Sand Plover |
Charadrius leschenaultii |
+++ |
Black-tailed Godwit |
Limosa limosa |
+++ |
Bar-tailed Godwit |
Limosa lapponica |
+++ |
Little Curlew |
Numenius borealis minutus |
++ |
Whimbrel |
Numenius phaeopus |
++ |
Eurasian Curlew |
Numenius arquata |
++ |
Eastern Curlew |
Numenius madagascariensis |
+ |
Spotted Redshank |
Tringa erythropus |
++ |
Common Redshank |
Tringa totanus |
++ |
Marsh Sandpiper |
Tringa stagnatilis |
+ |
Common Greenshank |
Tringa nebularia |
+++ |
Green Sandpiper |
Tringa ochropus |
+++ |
Wood Sandpiper |
Tringa glareola |
++ |
Spootted Greenshank |
Tringa guttifer |
+ |
Common Sandpiper |
Tringa hypolercos |
++ |
Terek Sandpiper |
Xenus cinereus |
++ |
Ruddy Turnstone |
Arenaria interpres |
++ |
Pintail Snipe |
Capella stenura |
++ |
Red Knot |
Calidris canutus |
++ |
Great Knot |
Calidris tenuirostris |
++ |
Rufous-necked Stint |
Calidris ruficollis |
++ |
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper |
Calidris acuminata |
+++ |
Dunlin |
Calidris alpina |
+++ |
Curlew Sandpiper |
Calidris forruginea |
+++ |
Sanderling |
Crocethia alba |
+ |
Spoon-billed Sandpiper |
Eurynorhynchus pygmeus |
+ |
Broad-billed Sandpiper |
Limicola falcinellus sibirica |
++ |
Japanese Gull |
Larus crassirostris |
++ |
Black-headed Gull |
Larus ridibundus |
+++ |
White-winged Black Tern |
Chlidonias leucoptera |
++ |
Common Tern |
Sterna h. Hirundo |
+ |
Little Tern |
Sterna albifrons sinensis |
++ |