Bird AlbumChina · Yunnan
Elephant Valley
235 species and 4,920 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: February and December, with up to 94 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Black-crested BulbulRubigula flaviventris
Asian Palm SwiftCypsiurus balasiensis
Common TailorbirdOrthotomus sutorius
Puff-throated BulbulAlophoixus pallidus
Sooty-headed BulbulPycnonotus aurigaster
Pin-striped Tit-BabblerMixornis gularis
Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
Indian White-eyeZosterops palpebrosus
Maroon OrioleOriolus traillii
Great BarbetPsilopogon virens
Yellow-browed WarblerPhylloscopus inornatus
White-rumped ShamaCopsychus malabaricus
Grey-headed Canary-flycatcherCulicicapa ceylonensis
Black-throated SunbirdAethopyga saturataSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Jinghong Riverside Wetlands19 km76 species
- Xishuangbanna Tropical Flowers Garden19 km96 species
- Jinghong [urban area]20 km77 species
- Lake LongDe36 km95 species
- Yinchang Shangzhai44 km47 species
- Medeng Shangzhai47 km110 species
All 235 species recorded here
- Black-crested Bulbul Rubigula flaviventris
- Pin-striped Tit-Babbler Mixornis gularis
- Grey-eyed Bulbul Iole propinqua
- Puff-throated Bulbul Alophoixus pallidus
- Common Tailorbird Orthotomus sutorius
- Indian White-eye Zosterops palpebrosus
- Red-whiskered Bulbul Pycnonotus jocosus
- Blue-winged Leafbird Chloropsis moluccensis
- Great Iora Aegithina lafresnayei
- Great Barbet Psilopogon virens
- Dark-necked Tailorbird Orthotomus atrogularis
- Common Iora Aegithina tiphia
- Asian Palm Swift Cypsiurus balasiensis
- Blue-throated Barbet Psilopogon asiaticus
- Sooty-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus aurigaster
- Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus
- Purple-naped Spiderhunter Kurochkinegramma hypogrammicum
- Brown-cheeked Fulvetta Alcippe poioicephala
- White-rumped Shama Copsychus malabaricus
- Crimson Sunbird Aethopyga siparaja
- Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher Culicicapa ceylonensis
- Black-throated Sunbird Aethopyga saturata
- White-bellied Erpornis Erpornis zantholeuca
- Scarlet Minivet Pericrocotus speciosus
- Maroon Oriole Oriolus traillii
- Ashy Drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus
- Black-eared Barbet Psilopogon duvaucelii
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Green-legged Partridge Tropicoperdix chloropus
- Asian Fairy-bluebird Irena puella
- Greater Racket-tailed Drongo Dicrurus paradiseus
- Blyth's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus reguloides
- Oriental Magpie-Robin Copsychus saularis
- Bay Woodpecker Blythipicus pyrrhotis
- White-throated Fantail Rhipidura albicollis
- Verditer Flycatcher Eumyias thalassinus
- Silver-breasted Broadbill Serilophus lunatus
- Puff-throated Babbler Pellorneum ruficeps
- Bronzed Drongo Dicrurus aeneus
- Chinese Pond Heron Ardeola bacchus
- Cinereous Tit Parus cinereus
- Black-breasted Thrush Turdus dissimilis
- Black-naped Monarch Hypothymis azurea
- House Swift Apus nipalensis
- Plain Flowerpecker Dicaeum minullum
- Grey-crowned Warbler Phylloscopus tephrocephalus
- Pied Falconet Microhierax melanoleucos
- Crested Serpent Eagle Spilornis cheela
- Ruby-cheeked Sunbird Chalcoparia singalensis
- Green-billed Malkoha Phaenicophaeus tristis
- Little Spiderhunter Arachnothera longirostra
- Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo Dicrurus remifer
- Hill Blue Flycatcher Cyornis whitei
- Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
- Ashy Woodswallow Artamus fuscus
- Little Pied Flycatcher Ficedula westermanni
- Large Woodshrike Tephrodornis virgatus
- Asian Barred Owlet Glaucidium cuculoides
- Hainan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis hainanus
- Red Junglefowl Gallus gallus
- Short-billed Minivet Pericrocotus brevirostris
- Crested Goshawk Lophospiza trivirgata
- Yellow-bellied Warbler Abroscopus superciliaris
- Black-headed Bulbul Microtarsus melanocephalos
- Greenish Warbler Phylloscopus trochiloides
- Davison's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus intensior
- Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike Hemipus picatus
- Thick-billed Green Pigeon Treron curvirostra
- Eastern Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica
- Bianchi's Warbler Phylloscopus valentini
- Grey-backed Shrike Lanius tephronotus
- Yellow-vented Flowerpecker Pachyglossa chrysorrhea
- Blue-bearded Bee-eater Nyctyornis athertoni
- Orange-bellied Leafbird Chloropsis hardwickii
- White-spectacled Warbler Phylloscopus intermedius
- Asian House Martin Delichon dasypus
- Coppersmith Barbet Psilopogon haemacephalus
- White-browed Piculet Sasia ochracea
- Velvet-fronted Nuthatch Sitta frontalis
- Buff-breasted Babbler Pellorneum tickelli
- Black-winged Cuckooshrike Lalage melaschistos
- Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
- Pallas's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus proregulus
- Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus
- Plaintive Cuckoo Cacomantis merulinus
- Warbling White-eye Zosterops japonicus
- Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo Surniculus lugubris
- Banded Bay Cuckoo Cacomantis sonneratii
- Rufous-bellied Niltava Niltava sundara
- Siberian Blue Robin Larvivora cyane
- Streaked Spiderhunter Arachnothera magna
- Two-barred Warbler Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus
- Snowy-browed Flycatcher Ficedula hyperythra
- Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus
- White-rumped Munia Lonchura striata
- Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker Dicaeum cruentatum
- Sultan Tit Melanochlora sultanea
- Speckled Piculet Picumnus innominatus
- Claudia's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus claudiae
- Rufescent Prinia Prinia rufescens
- Pale Blue Flycatcher Cyornis unicolor
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Indian Cuckoo Cuculus micropterus
- Rufous Woodpecker Micropternus brachyurus
- Yellow-vented Warbler Phylloscopus cantator
- White-tailed Robin Myiomela leucura
- Hair-crested Drongo Dicrurus hottentottus
- Crested Treeswift Hemiprocne coronata
- Buff-barred Warbler Phylloscopus pulcher
- Orange-breasted Trogon Harpactes oreskios
- Rosy Minivet Pericrocotus roseus
- Radde's Warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi
- Rufous-capped Babbler Cyanoderma ruficeps
- Lesser Shortwing Brachypteryx leucophris
- Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus
- Lesser Yellownape Picus chlorolophus
- Brown-throated Sunbird Anthreptes malacensis
- White-browed Shrike-babbler Pteruthius aeralatus
- Common Emerald Dove Chalcophaps indica
- Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla
- Chinese Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus yunnanensis
- Yunnan Fulvetta Alcippe fratercula
- Western Hooded Pitta Pitta sordida
- Himalayan Swiftlet Aerodramus brevirostris
- Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
- Plumbeous Water Redstart Phoenicurus fuliginosus
- Hume's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus humei
- Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus
- Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus
- Thick-billed Flowerpecker Pachyglossa agilis
- Brown-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa muttui
- Himalayan Bluetail Tarsiger rufilatus
- Kloss's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus ogilviegranti
- Blue Whistling Thrush Myophonus caeruleus
- Violet Cuckoo Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus
- Grey-breasted Prinia Prinia hodgsonii
- Crow-billed Drongo Dicrurus annectens
- Chestnut-winged Cuckoo Clamator coromandus
- Grey-headed Woodpecker Picus canus
- Greater Coucal Centropus sinensis
- Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch Sitta cinnamoventris
- Fire-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum ignipectus
- Chestnut-flanked White-eye Zosterops erythropleurus
- White-crowned Forktail Enicurus leschenaulti
- Large Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx sparverioides
- Yellow-browed Tit Sylviparus modestus
- Rufous-faced Warbler Abroscopus albogularis
- Grey-faced Buzzard Butastur indicus
- Long-tailed Broadbill Psarisomus dalhousiae
- Martens's Warbler Phylloscopus omeiensis
- White-tailed Flycatcher Leucoptilon concretum
- White-throated Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis
- Grey Bush Chat Saxicola ferreus
- Greater Yellownape Chrysophlegma flavinucha
- Golden-fronted Leafbird Chloropsis aurifrons
- Spotted Dove Spilopelia chinensis
- Indochinese Roller Coracias affinis
- Brown-breasted Bulbul Pycnonotus xanthorrhous
- Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus
- Red-headed Trogon Harpactes erythrocephalus
- Black-headed Sibia Heterophasia desgodinsi
- Mrs. Gould's Sunbird Aethopyga gouldiae
- Yellow-bellied Fantail Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus
- Asian Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx maculatus
- Flavescent Bulbul Pycnonotus flavescens
- Collared Owlet Taenioptynx brodiei
- White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus
- Siberian Rubythroat Calliope calliope
- Lesser Coucal Centropus bengalensis
- Besra Tachyspiza virgata
- Pale-chinned Flycatcher Cyornis poliogenys
- Ferruginous Flycatcher Muscicapa ferruginea
- Chestnut-crowned Warbler Phylloscopus castaniceps
- Yellow-bellied Bush Warbler Horornis acanthizoides
- Mountain Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus nipalensis
- Slaty-backed Flycatcher Ficedula erithacus
- Blue-winged Minla Actinodura cyanouroptera
- Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach
- Bar-backed Partridge Arborophila brunneopectus
- Scaly-breasted Munia Lonchura punctulata
- Pacific Swift Apus pacificus
- Blyth's Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone affinis
- Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopaceus
- Ashy-throated Warbler Phylloscopus maculipennis
- Rufous-throated Partridge Arborophila rufogularis
- Garden Sunbird Cinnyris jugularis
- Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni
- Grey-backed Thrush Turdus hortulorum
- Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius
- Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush Monticola rufiventris
- Fujian Niltava Niltava davidi
- Mountain Tailorbird Phyllergates cucullatus
- Purple Sunbird Cinnyris asiaticus
- Mountain Bamboo Partridge Bambusicola fytchii
- Purple Cochoa Cochoa purpurea
- Ashy-headed Green Pigeon Treron phayrei
- Slaty-backed Forktail Enicurus schistaceus
- Hill Prinia Prinia superciliaris
- Mugimaki Flycatcher Ficedula mugimaki
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Grey-cheeked Warbler Phylloscopus poliogenys
- Golden-throated Barbet Psilopogon franklinii
- Brown Wood Owl Strix leptogrammica
- Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush Pterorhinus pectoralis
- White-hooded Babbler Gampsorhynchus rufulus
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Oriental Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis
- Eastern Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus coronatus
- Blue-tailed Bee-eater Merops philippinus
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Himalayan Buzzard Buteo refectus
- Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus ruficollis
- Red-billed Leiothrix Leiothrix lutea
- Grey Treepie Dendrocitta formosae
- Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea
- Sapphire Flycatcher Ficedula sapphira
- Mountain Bulbul Ixos mcclellandii
- Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa sibirica
- Grey-throated Babbler Stachyris nigriceps
- Ashy Bulbul Hemixos flavala
- Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon Treron sphenurus
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Rufous-tailed Robin Larvivora sibilans
- Small Niltava Niltava macgrigoriae
- Black Eagle Ictinaetus malaiensis
- Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
- Common Flameback Dinopium javanense
- Eastern Cattle Egret Ardea coromanda
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Eastern Buzzard Buteo japonicus
- Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus
- Large Niltava Niltava grandis
- Swinhoe's Minivet Pericrocotus cantonensis
- Green-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga nipalensis
- Amur Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone incei
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Elephant Valley?
February and December. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 94 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Elephant Valley?
235 species, from 4,920 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Elephant Valley in November?
The most recorded in November: Black-crested Bulbul, Asian Palm Swift, Common Tailorbird, Puff-throated Bulbul and Sooty-headed Bulbul.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.