Links relevant for birds in Tibet, birdwatching in Tibet and Travel in Tibet
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Also please don't link me if you have such a webpage. I am sorry for that.
Here links to birdwatching in Tibet relevant sites and some scientific articles about Tibetan birds.
For birding in Sichuan: Roland Zeidler, a German living in Chengdu/ Sichuan doing beautiful birdwatching and trecking tours especially into the Tibetan areas of Sichuan
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Windhorse travel: a Tibetan private travel agency in Lhasa, guides, drivers and partners are Tibetans, NOT government and NOT Chinese! They usually only take requests from bigger agencies, but I can arrange a bird watching tour as well
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www.windhorsetibet.com
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Highland Trecking Initiatives: A Lhasa based Eco-tourism Company specializing in High Altitude Trekking.
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My own blog: tibetbirds.blogspot.com sometimes I will have some more pictures or stories here.
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MushRoaming: Daniel Winkler's Webpages Dedicated to Mushrooms and Nature Tours
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For pictures of Asian birds
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orientalbirdimages.org |
xeno-canto: a community database of shared bird sounds from the whole world
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AVoCet (Avian Vocalizations Center) provides a global database of well-documented, downloadable bird sounds
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Avibase - Bird Checklists of the World
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avibase.bsc-eoc.org/checklist |
An English-Chinese online Dictionary ... there may be many but this one found ALL the Latin bird names and gave me the corresponding Chinese name.
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Chinese language encyclopedia with all/ most of the birds. It only works with entering the Chinese bird names.
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Group Names for Birds: A Partial List
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Nesting records of 20 bird species in Lhasa region, Tibet Article in Chinese Birds 2010, 1(3):167–174 (a PDF file will open here!)
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An annotated list of birds wintering in the Lhasa Article in FORKTAIL 23 (2007): 1–11 (a PDF file will open here!)
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www.orientalbirdclub.org/Birds wintering in Lhasa, Tibet |
Tickell's Thrush Turdus unicolor at Zhangmu, Short note in Forktail 24 (2008): 133, 134 (a PDF file will open here!)
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Ground-dwelling birds near the Qinghai-Tibet highway and railway Article in Press: Transportation Research Part D xxx (2010) xxx–xxx (a PDF file will open here!)
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Reproductive Ecology of Three Tibetan Waterbird Species, with Special Article in: Zoological Studies 50(2): 192-202 (2011) (a PDF file will open here!)
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Important Bird Areas in Tibet Autonomous Region (a PDF file will open here!)
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Breeding ecology of ground tits in northeastern Tibetan plateau, (a PDF file will open here!)
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Habitat use of Tibetan Eared Pheasant Article in: Ibis (2002), 144, 17–22 (a PDF file will open here!)
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Very nice article: it is about Pikas (German: Pfeifhasen) but relevant for birdwatchers because many birds live in the holes of Pikas! The plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) is a keystone species for Article in: Animal Conservation (1999) 2, 235–240 (a PDF file will open here!)
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More about Pikas and birds: Keystone status of plateau pikas (Ochotona Article in: Biodiversity and Conservation 12: 1901–1912, 2003 (a PDF file will open here!)
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Roosting Behavior and Roost Selection by Buff-throated Partridges Article in: Zoological Studies 49(4): 461-469 (2010) (a PDF file will open here!)
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Reproductive ecology of Tibetan Eared Pheasant Article in: Ibis (2003), 145, 657–666 (a PDF file will open here!)
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I warn you, it gets quite scientific here ...!!! Postglacial colonization of the Tibetan plateau inferred from Article in: Molecular Ecology (2005) (a PDF file will open here!)
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Dominance-dependent microroost use in flock-living ARDEA 95(2), 2007, 225-234 (a PDF file will open here!)
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Foraging habitats and utilization distributions Article in: Journal of Field Ornithology 81(1):21–30, 2010 (a PDF file will open here!)
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BREEDING ECOLOGY OF A BURROW-NESTING PASSERINE, Article in: Ardeola 56(2), 2009, 173-187 (a PDF file will open here!)
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