Birds Of China

List of Common Birds Found in China

Native Birds

• Amur Falcon
• Ashy-throated Parrotbill
• Asian Brown Flycatcher
• Asian Glossy Starling
• Asian Koel
• Asian Openbill
• Asian Paradise Flycatcher
• Asian Stubtail
• Baer’s Pochard
• Baikal Teal
• Barn Swallow
• Bar-tailed Godwit
• Besra
• Black Drongo
• Black Kite
• Black-billed Capercaillie
• Black-browed Tit
• Black-capped Kingfisher
• Black-faced Bunting
• Black-headed Gull
• Black-throated Bushtit
• Black-throated Thrush
• Blyth’s Pipit
• Broad-billed Sandpiper
• Brown-eared Bulbul
• Brown Dipper
• Brown Eared Pheasant
• Brown-headed Gull
• Brown-throated Treecreeper
• Brown-winged Parrotbill
• Buff-bellied Pipit
• Bufflehead
• Buff-throated Warbler
• Cabot’s Tragopan
• Caspian Gull
• Caspian Tern
• Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch
• Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush
• Chestnut-cheeked Starling
• Chestnut-eared Bunting
• Chestnut-flanked White-eye
• Chestnut-throated Partridge
• Chestnut Thrush
• Chinese Bamboo Partridge
• Chinese Blackbird
• Chinese Bulbul
• Chinese Crested Tern
• Chinese Egret
• Chinese Francolin
• Chinese Gray Shrike
• Chinese Grosbeak
• Chinese Grouse
• Chinese Hill Partridge
• Chinese Hwamei
• Chinese Merganser
• Chinese Monal
• Chinese Penduline Tit
• Chinese Pied Starling
• Chinese Pond Heron
• Chinese Prinia
• Chinese Sparrowhawk
• Chinese Thrush
• Chukar Partridge
• Collared Crow
• Collared Owlet
• Common Buttonquail
• Common Crane
• Common Cuckoo
• Common Eider
• Common Goldeneye
• Common Green Magpie
• Common Gull
• Common Kingfisher
• Common Merganser
• Common Myna
• Common Pheasant
• Common Pochard
• Common Quail
• Common Reed Bunting
• Common Scoter
• Cotton Pygmy Goose
• Crested Goshawk
• Crested Ibis
• Crested Lark
• Crested Myna
• Crimson-breasted Woodpecker
• Dark-sided Flycatcher
• Daurian Partridge
• Daurian Redstart
• Daurian Starling
• Dunlin
• Dusky Thrush
• Dusky Warbler
• Eared Pheasant
• Eastern Imperial Eagle
• Eastern Marsh Harrier
• Eastern Spot-billed Duck
• Eurasian Blackbird
• Eurasian Buzzard
• Eurasian Collared Dove
• Eurasian Curlew
• Eurasian Golden Plover
• Eurasian Hobby
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• Eurasian Kestrel
• Eurasian Sparrowhawk
• Eurasian Treecreeper
• Eurasian Tree Sparrow
• Eurasian Wigeon
• Eyebrowed Thrush
• Falcated Duck
• Ferruginous Duck
• Golden Eagle
• Golden Pheasant
• Gray-headed Bullfinch
• Gray-headed Thrush
• Greater Scaup
• Great Knot
• Great Tit
• Green Bee-eater
• Green Peafowl
• Greenish Warbler
• Gray Heron
• Gull-billed Tern
• Gyrfalcon
• Hair-crested Drongo
• Heuglin’s Gull
• Hill Myna
• Hill Partridge
• Himalayan Cuckoo
• Himalayan Rubythroat
• Indian Peafowl
• Japanese Cormorant
• Japanese Tit
• Japanese White-eye
• Lady Amherst’s Pheasant
• Lanceolated Warbler
• Large Hawk-cuckoo
• Lesser Whistling Duck
• Light-vented Bulbul
• Little Egret
• Little Grebe
• Manchurian Crane
• Mandarin Duck
• Mugimaki Flycatcher
• Naumann’s Thrush
• Olive-backed Sunbird
• Oriental Cuckoo
• Oriental Greenfinch
• Oriental Honey-buzzard
• Oriental Magpie
• Oriental Magpie-robin
• Oriental Plover
• Oriental Turtle Dove
• Oriental White-eye
• Osprey
• Pacific Golden Plover
• Pacific Loon
• Pale Thrush
• Red Collared Dove
• Red-billed Blue Magpie
• Red-vented Bulbul
• Red-wattled Lapwing
• Rock Pigeon
• Saker Falcon
• Sanderling
• Sandhill Crane
• Saunders’s Gull
• Scaly-sided Merganser
• Scaly Thrush
• Siberian Rubythroat
• Siberian Accentor
• Sichuan Leaf Warbler
• Sichuan Treecreeper 
• Silver Pheasant
• Slaty-backed Flycatcher
• Slaty Bunting 
• Slavonian Grebe
• Slender-billed Gull
• Smew
• Smoky Warbler
• Spoon-billed Sandpiper
• Spotted Dove
• Stejneger’s Scoter
• Swan Goose
• Taiga Flycatcher
• Temminck’s Stint
• Tibetan Partridge
• Tibetan Rosefinch 
• Tibetan Snowcock
• Varied Tit
• Velvet Scoter
• Vinous-throated Parrotbill
• Wallcreeper
• Water Pipit
• Whiskered Tern
• White Wagtail
• White-throated Kingfisher
• Willow Tit
• Xinjiang Ground Jay 
• Yellow-bellied Tit
• Yellow-browed Warbler
• Zebra Dove
• Ala Shan Redstart
• Alström’s Warbler
• Altai Snowcock
• Amur Stonechat
• Arctic Warbler
• Ashy-headed Green-pigeon
• Ashy-throated Warbler
• Ashy Wood-pigeon
• Asian Desert Warbler
• Asian Emerald Cuckoo
• Asian Emerald Dove
• Asian Rosy-finch
• Azure-winged Magpie
• Banded Bay Cuckoo
• Bar-backed Partridge
• Barred Cuckoo-dove
• Barred Warbler
• Bay Woodpecker
• Beijing Babbler
• Bianchi’s Warbler
• Black-backed Forktail
• Black Bittern
• Black-chinned Fruit-dove
• Black-crowned Night-heron
• Black Eagle
• Black Grouse
• Black-headed Greenfinch
• Black-headed Mountain Finch
• Black-hooded Oriole
• Black-naped Oriole
• Black Redstart
• Black-rumped Magpie
• Blackthroat
• Black-throated Parrotbill
• Blanford’s Rosefinch
• Blood Pheasant
• Blue-and-white Flycatcher
• Blue-breasted Quail
• Blue-capped Redstart
• Blue Eared-pheasant
• Blue-fronted Redstart
• Blue-fronted Robin
• Blue Rock-thrush
• Bluethroat
• Blue-throated Flycatcher
• Blue Whistling-thrush
• Blyth’s Leaf Warbler
• Blyth’s Rosefinch
• Blyth’s Tragopan
• Bonelli’s Eagle
• Booted Eagle
• Brahminy Kite
• Brambling
• Brant
• Brown-breasted Flycatcher
• Brown Bullfinch
• Brown-chested Jungle-flycatcher
• Brown Parrotbill
• Brown-throated Fulvetta
• Buff-barred Warbler
• Burmese Collared-dove
• Carrion Crow
• Chestnut-breasted Partridge
• Chestnut-crowned Warbler
• Chestnut-winged Cuckoo
• Chinese Beautiful Rosefinch
• Chinese Blue Flycatcher
• Chinese Fulvetta
• Chinese Grassbird
• Chinese Leaf Warbler
• Chinese Rubythroat
• Chinese Shortwing
• Chinese Vivid Niltava
• Chinese White-browed Rosefinch
• Cinnamon Bittern
• Claudia’s Leaf Warbler
• Collared Grosbeak
• Collared Treepie
• Common Chaffinch
• Common Chiffchaff
• Common Flameback
• Common Nightingale
• Common Raven
• Common Redpoll
• Common Redstart
• Common Rosefinch
• Common Shelduck
• Common Wood-pigeon
• Crested Serpent-eagle
• Crimson-browed Finch
• Crimson-winged Finch
• Darjeeling Woodpecker
• Dark-breasted Rosefinch
• Dark-rumped Rosefinch
• Daurian Jackdaw
• Davison’s Leaf Warbler
• Desert Finch
• Desert Wheatear
• Eared Grebe
• Eastern Crowned Warbler
• Elliot’s Pheasant
• Emei Leaf Warbler
• Eurasian Bullfinch
• Eurasian Golden Oriole
• Eurasian Jackdaw
• Eurasian Jay
• Eurasian Linnet
• Eurasian Magpie
• Eurasian Marsh Harrier
• Eurasian Nutcracker
• Eurasian Siskin
• Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker
• Eurasian Wryneck
• European Goldfinch
• European Greenfinch
• European Robin
• European Turtle-dove
• Ferruginous Flycatcher
• Fire-fronted Serin
• Fire-tailed Myzornis
• Firethroat
• Fork-tailed Drongo-cuckoo
• Fujian Niltava
• Fulvous Parrotbill
• Gadwall
• Gansu Leaf-warbler
• Garganey
• Giant Shrike
• Golden-breasted Fulvetta
• Golden Bush-robin
• Golden Parrotbill
• Gold-naped Finch
• Gould’s Shortwing
• Gray-backed Shrike
• Gray Bushchat
• Gray-capped Pygmy Woodpecker
• Gray-cheeked Warbler
• Gray-crowned Warbler
• Gray-faced Buzzard
• Gray-headed Parrotbill
• Gray-hooded Fulvetta
• Gray-hooded Parrotbill
• Gray-hooded Warbler
• Graylag Goose
• Gray Partridge
• Gray Peacock-pheasant
• Gray-streaked Flycatcher
• Gray Treepie
• Great-billed Heron
• Great Bittern
• Great Bustard
• Great Crested Grebe
• Great Egret
• Greater Coucal
• Greater Flameback
• Greater Spotted Eagle
• Greater White-fronted Goose
• Greater Whitethroat
• Great Gray Shrike
• Great Parrotbill
• Great Rosefinch
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Green-backed Flycatcher
• Green-billed Malkoha
• Green-crowned Warbler
• Green Imperial-pigeon
• Hainan Blue Flycatcher
• Hainan Leaf Warbler
• Hainan Partridge
• Hainan Peacock-pheasant
• Hartert’s Leaf Warbler
• Hawfinch
• Hazel Grouse
• Hen Harrier
• Hill Blue Flycatcher
• Hill Pigeon
• Himalayan Beautiful Rosefinch
• Himalayan Bluetail
• Himalayan Monal
• Himalayan Shortwing
• Himalayan Snowcock
• Himalayan White-browed Rosefinch
• Hoary Redpoll
• Hodgson’s Hawk-cuckoo
• Hodgson’s Redstart
• Hooded Crow
• Horned Grebe
• House Crow
• Hume’s Pheasant
• Hume’s Warbler
• Imperial Eagle
• Indian Blue Robin
• Indian Cuckoo
• Indian Golden Oriole
• Indochinese Green-magpie
• Intermediate Egret
• Isabelline Wheatear
• Japanese Grosbeak
• Japanese Leaf Warbler
• Japanese Night-heron
• Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker
• Japanese Quail
• Japanese Robin
• Japanese Sparrowhawk
• Japanese Wood-pigeon
• Jerdon’s Bushchat
• Kalij Pheasant
• Kamchatka Leaf Warbler
• Kloss’s Leaf Warbler
• Knob-billed Duck
• Koklass Pheasant
• Large-billed Crow
• Large-billed Leaf Warbler
• Large Niltava
• Laughing Dove
• Lemon-rumped Warbler
• Lesser Coucal
• Lesser Cuckoo
• Lesser Gray Shrike
• Lesser Shortwing
• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
• Lesser White-fronted Goose
• Lesser Whitethroat
• Lesser Yellownape
• Limestone Leaf Warbler
• Little Bittern
• Little Cuckoo-dove
• Little Forktail
• Little Pied Flycatcher
• Long-tailed Rosefinch
• Long-tailed Shrike
• Malayan Night-heron
• Maroon Oriole
• Martens’s Warbler
• Mongolian Finch
• Mongolian Ground-jay
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Mountain Bamboo-partridge
• Mountain Chiffchaff
• Mountain Hawk-eagle
• Mountain Imperial-pigeon
• Mute Swan
• Narcissus Flycatcher
• Northern Goshawk
• Northern Hawk-cuckoo
• Northern Shoveler
• Northern Shrike
• Northern Wheatear
• Orange-breasted Green-pigeon
• Pale-billed Parrotbill
• Pale Blue Flycatcher
• Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher
• Pale-headed Woodpecker
• Pale-legged Leaf Warbler
• Pale Rosefinch
• Pallas’s Fish Eagle
• Pallas’s Leaf Warbler
• Pallas’s Rosefinch
• Pallid Harrier
• Pied Bushchat
• Pied Cuckoo
• Pied Harrier
• Pied Wheatear
• Pine Grosbeak
• Pink-browed Rosefinch
• Pink-rumped Rosefinch
• Pin-tailed Green-pigeon
• Plain Mountain Finch
• Plaintive Cuckoo
• Plumbeous Redstart
• Przevalski’s Partridge
• Przevalski’s Pinktail
• Purple Heron
• Pygmy Flycatcher
• Radde’s Warbler
• Ratchet-tailed Treepie
• Red-billed Chough
• Red Crossbill
• Red-flanked Bluetail
• Red-fronted Rosefinch
• Red-headed Bullfinch
• Red Junglefowl
• Red-mantled Rosefinch
• Red-necked Grebe
• Reed Parrotbill
• Reeves’s Pheasant
• Ring-necked Pheasant
• Rock Ptarmigan
• Rook
• Ruddy Shelduck
• Rufous-backed Redstart
• Rufous-bellied Eagle
• Rufous-bellied Niltava
• Rufous-breasted Bush-robin
• Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher
• Rufous-headed Parrotbill
• Rufous-headed Robin
• Rufous-tailed Babbler
• Rufous-tailed Robin
• Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush
• Rufous-tailed Scrub-robin
• Rufous-throated Partridge
• Rufous Treepie
• Rufous-winged Buzzard
• Rufous Woodpecker
• Rusty-bellied Shortwing
• Rusty-throated Parrotbill
• Ryukyu Flycatcher
• Ryukyu Robin
• Sapphire Flycatcher
• Satyr Tragopan
• Scaly-bellied Woodpecker
• Scaly-breasted Partridge
• Scarlet Finch
• Schrenck’s Bittern
• Sclater’s Monal
• Severtzov’s Grouse
• Sharpe’s Rosefinch
• Shikra
• Short-tailed Parrotbill
• Short-toed Snake-eagle
• Siberian Blue Robin
• Siberian Grouse
• Siberian Jay
• Siberian Stonechat
• Sichuan Jay
• Sichuan Partridge
• Sillem’s Rosefinch
• Silver Oriole
• Slaty-backed Forktail
• Slaty-blue Flycatcher
• Slender-billed Oriole
• Small Niltava
• Snow Partridge
• Snow Pigeon
• Snowy-browed Flycatcher
• Speckled Piculet
• Speckled Wood-pigeon
• Spectacled Fulvetta
• Spectacled Parrotbill
• Spot-breasted Parrotbill
• Spotted Flycatcher
• Spotted Forktail
• Spot-winged Grosbeak
• Spot-winged Rosefinch
• Square-tailed Drongo-cuckoo
• Steppe Eagle
• Stock Dove
• Streaked Rosefinch
• Streak-throated Fulvetta
• Streak-throated Woodpecker
• Striated Heron
• Stripe-breasted Woodpecker
• Sulphur-bellied Warbler
• Sulphur-breasted Warbler
• Szecheny’s Partridge
• Taiga Bean-goose
• Tarim Babbler
• Temminck’s Tragopan
• Thick-billed Green-pigeon
• Three-banded Rosefinch
• Three-toed Parrotbill
• Tibetan Eared-pheasant
• Tibetan Sandgrouse
• Tibetan Serin
• Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher
• Tickell’s Leaf Warbler
• Tundra Bean-goose
• Tundra Swan
• Twite
• Two-barred Warbler
• Ultramarine Flycatcher
• Variable Wheatear
• Verditer Flycatcher
• Verreaux’s Partridge
• Vinaceous Rosefinch
• Violet Cuckoo
• Wedge-tailed Green-pigeon
• Western Capercaillie
• Western Tragopan
• Whistler’s Warbler
• Whistling Green-pigeon
• White-backed Woodpecker
• White-bellied Green-pigeon
• White-bellied Heron
• White-bellied Redstart
• White-breasted Parrotbill
• White-browed Bush-robin
• White-browed Fulvetta
• White-browed Piculet
• White-capped Redstart
• White-cheeked Partridge
• White-crowned Forktail
• White-eared Night-heron
• White Eared-pheasant
• White-eyed Buzzard
• White-gorgeted Flycatcher
• White-necklaced Partridge
• White-rumped Shama
• White-spectacled Warbler
• White-tailed Eagle
• White-tailed Flycatcher
• White-tailed Robin
• White-throated Bushchat
• White-throated Redstart
• White-throated Rock-thrush
• White-winged Crossbill
• White-winged Grosbeak
• White-winged Magpie
• White-winged Redstart
• White-winged Woodpecker
• Whooper Swan
• Willow Ptarmigan
• Yellow-billed Blue-magpie
• Yellow-billed Chough
• Yellow-billed Grosbeak
• Yellow Bittern
• Yellow-breasted Greenfinch
• Yellow-crowned Woodpecker
• Yellow-eyed Babbler
• Yellow-eyed Pigeon
• Yellow-footed Green-pigeon
• Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
• Yellow-streaked Warbler
• Yellow-vented Warbler
• Zappey’s Flycatcher

Non-native Birds

• Barnacle Goose
• Black-chinned Babbler
• Cackling Goose
• Eurasian Blackcap
• Greater Flamingo
• Snow Goose
• Variegated Laughingthrush

There are several places where one can go birdwatching in China, including Qinghai Lake, Yunnan Province, and Emei Shan, a mountain in southwestern China that is also a UNESCO World Heritage site. The best time to see these birds is in the spring and summer, between April and August.