Summer birds recorded in Xiong Se Valley
Species |
Population size |
Black Kite Milvus korschun |
+ |
Sparrow Hawk Accipiter nisus |
+ |
Buzzard Buteo buteo |
+ |
Golden Kagle Aquila chrysaetos |
+ |
Himalayan Griffon Gyps himalayensis |
+ |
Kestrel Falco tinnunculus |
+ |
Tibetan Snow Cock Tetraogallus tibetanus |
++ |
Tibetan Perdix hodgsoniae |
++ |
Tibetan Eared Pheasant Crossoptilon harmani |
+++ |
Snow Pigeon Columba leuconota |
+ |
Blue Hill Pigeon Columba rupestris |
+ |
Rufous Turle Dove Streptopelia orientalis |
+++ |
Cuckoo Cuculus canorus |
+ |
Eagle owl Bubo bubo |
+ |
Large White-rumped Swift Apus pacificus |
++ |
Hoopoe Upupa epops |
+++ |
Long-billed Calandra lark Melanocorypha maxima |
+ |
Lesser Skylark Alauda gulgula |
+ |
Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne rupestris |
+ |
House Martin Delichon urbica |
++ |
Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba |
++ |
Grey-backed Shrike Lanius tephronotus |
++ |
Magpie Pica pica |
++ |
Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax |
++ |
Dipper Cinclus cinclus |
+ |
Wrens Troglodytes troglodytes |
+ |
Robin Hedge Sparrow Prunella rubeculoides |
++ |
Brown Accentor Prunella fulvescens |
++ |
Black Red-start Phoenicurus ochruros |
++ |
Hodgson's Redstart Phoenicurus hodgsoni |
++ |
White-throated Redstart Phoenicurus schisticeps |
++ |
Chinese Shortwing Hodgsonius phoenicuroides |
+ |
Stonechat Saxicola torquata |
+ |
White-capped Water Redstart Chaimarrornis leucocephalus |
+ |
White-collared Blackbird Turdus albocinctus |
+ |
Blackbird Turdus merula |
++ |
Giant Tibetan Babax Babax waddelli |
+ |
Henry’s Laughing Thrush Garrulax henrici |
+++ |
Tickell’s Willow Warbler Phylloscopus affinis |
+++ |
Stoliczka’s Tit Warbler Leptopoecile sophiae |
+++ |
Great Tit Parus major |
++ |
Black Crested Tit Parus rubidiventris |
+ |
Red-winged Wall creeper Tichodroma muraria |
+ |
Tree Sparrow Passer montanus |
++ |
White-rumped Snow Finch Montifringilla taczanowskii |
++ |
Twite Carduelis thibetana |
+ |
Brandt’s Mountain Finch Leucosticte brandti |
++ |
Great Rosrfinch Carpodacus rubicilla |
++ |
Streaked Great Rosefinch Carpodacus rubicilloides |
++ |
Red-breasted Rosrfinch Carpodacus puniceus |
++ |
Beartiful Rosefinch Carpodacus pulcherrimus |
++ |
Common Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus |
+++ |
Red-headed Rosefinch Pinicola subhimachala |
+ |
White-winged Grosbeak Mycerobas carnipes |
++ |
Rock Bunting Emberiza cia |
++ |
+ = rarely seen species’¬ ++ = common species’¬ +++ = dominant species
The autumn birds commonly encountered in Lake Nam Tso:
Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea, Great Crested Podiceps cristatus, Goosander Mergus merganser, Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus, Saker Falco Falco cherrug, Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax’¬several species of larks