Bird AlbumChina · Beijing
Grand Canal Forest Park
217 species and 5,706 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: September, with up to 95 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
Azure-winged MagpieCyanopica cyanus
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
Oriental MagpiePica serica
Marsh TitPoecile palustris
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
Common MerganserMergus merganser
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
Light-vented BulbulPycnonotus sinensis
Grey HeronArdea cinerea
Cinereous TitParus cinereus
Grey-headed WoodpeckerPicus canus73 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 217 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Central Green Forest Park2 km83 species
- Liangshui River4 km110 species
- Chaobai & Yunchaojian River Confluence4 km148 species
- Xiaotaihou River - Tianjiafu Section7 km82 species
- Northern Canal - Yulinzhuang Section11 km99 species
- Wenyu River12 km289 species
All 217 species recorded here
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Oriental Magpie Pica serica
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
- Azure-winged Magpie Cyanopica cyanus
- Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
- Marsh Tit Poecile palustris
- Oriental Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Grey-headed Woodpecker Picus canus
- Light-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis
- Spotted Dove Spilopelia chinensis
- Eastern Spot-billed Duck Anas zonorhyncha
- Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Cinereous Tit Parus cinereus
- Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus canicapillus
- Vinous-throated Parrotbill Suthora webbiana
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Oriental Greenfinch Chloris sinica
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
- Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
- Chinese Blackbird Turdus mandarinus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Smew Mergellus albellus
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Falcated Duck Mareca falcata
- Brambling Fringilla montifringilla
- Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla
- White-cheeked Starling Spodiopsar cineraceus
- Silver-throated Bushtit Aegithalos glaucogularis
- Oriental Reed Warbler Acrocephalus orientalis
- Chinese Grosbeak Eophona migratoria
- Chinese Pond Heron Ardeola bacchus
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
- Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus
- Yellow-throated Bunting Emberiza elegans
- Black-browed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus bistrigiceps
- Pallas's Reed Bunting Emberiza pallasi
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Eastern Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica
- Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach
- Yellow-bellied Tit Periparus venustulus
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
- Pallas's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus proregulus
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Reed Parrotbill Paradoxornis heudei
- Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni
- Black-faced Bunting Emberiza spodocephala
- Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes
- Indian Cuckoo Cuculus micropterus
- Common Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus
- Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla
- Mongolian Gull Larus mongolicus
- Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta
- Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus
- Carrion Crow Corvus corone
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Yellow Bittern Botaurus sinensis
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail Motacilla tschutschensis
- Goldcrest Regulus regulus
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca
- Eurasian Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
- Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus
- Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
- Naumann's Thrush Turdus naumanni
- Two-barred Warbler Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica
- Amur Stonechat Saxicola stejnegeri
- Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
- Chinese Penduline Tit Remiz consobrinus
- Warbling White-eye Zosterops japonicus
- Richard's Pipit Anthus richardi
- Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea
- Crested Kingfisher Megaceryle lugubris
- Black Scoter Melanitta americana
- Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus
- Large-billed Crow Corvus macrorhynchos
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- Arctic Warbler Phylloscopus borealis
- Siberian Rubythroat Calliope calliope
- Daurian Jackdaw Coloeus dauuricus
- Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Baikal Teal Sibirionetta formosa
- Siberian Accentor Prunella montanella
- Radde's Warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi
- Lesser Whitethroat Curruca curruca
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa sibirica
- Eyebrowed Thrush Turdus obscurus
- Siberian Pipit Anthus japonicus
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Thick-billed Warbler Arundinax aedon
- Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata
- Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus
- Rook Corvus frugilegus
- Eurasian Siskin Spinus spinus
- Pine Bunting Emberiza leucocephalos
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Grey-headed Lapwing Vanellus cinereus
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Eurasian Wigeon Mareca penelope
- Rufous-bellied Woodpecker Dendrocopos hyperythrus
- Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus
- Little Owl Athene noctua
- Redpoll Acanthis flammea
- Coal Tit Periparus ater
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Chinese Nuthatch Sitta villosa
- Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler Helopsaltes certhiola
- Chestnut-eared Bunting Emberiza fucata
- Yellow-browed Bunting Emberiza chrysophrys
- Black-naped Oriole Oriolus chinensis
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Asian Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa dauurica
- Lanceolated Warbler Locustella lanceolata
- Ashy Minivet Pericrocotus divaricatus
- Eastern Buzzard Buteo japonicus
- Ochre-rumped Bunting Emberiza yessoensis
- Medium Egret Ardea intermedia
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Forest Wagtail Dendronanthus indicus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Blyth's Pipit Anthus godlewskii
- Siberian Blue Robin Larvivora cyane
- Garganey Spatula querquedula
- Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
- Beijing Babbler Rhopophilus pekinensis
- Dusky Thrush Turdus eunomus
- Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopaceus
- Eastern Marsh Harrier Circus spilonotus
- Tristram's Bunting Emberiza tristrami
- Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Eastern Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus coronatus
- Eastern Cattle Egret Ardea coromanda
- Chinese Grey Shrike Lanius sphenocercus
- Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
- Baikal Bush Warbler Locustella davidi
- Daurian Starling Agropsar sturninus
- Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Chestnut-flanked White-eye Zosterops erythropleurus
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Marsh Grassbird Helopsaltes pryeri
- Yellow-rumped Flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia
- Japanese Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza gularis
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Japanese Grosbeak Eophona personata
- Pallas's Gull Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus
- Vega Gull Larus vegae
- Tundra Bean Goose Anser serrirostris
- Japanese Waxwing Bombycilla japonica
- Bearded Reedling Panurus biarmicus
- Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva
- Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- Brown-cheeked Rail Rallus indicus
- Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
- Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus
- Von Schrenck's Bittern Botaurus eurhythmus
- Pacific Swift Apus pacificus
- Hume's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus humei
- Scaly-breasted Munia Lonchura punctulata
- Meadow Bunting Emberiza cioides
- Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus
- Siberian Long-tailed Rosefinch Carpodacus sibiricus
- Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus
- Japanese Quail Coturnix japonica
- Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
- Red-throated Thrush Turdus ruficollis
- Chinese Beautiful Rosefinch Carpodacus davidianus
- Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
- Long-tailed Minivet Pericrocotus ethologus
- Chinese Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza soloensis
- Red-billed Starling Spodiopsar sericeus
- Pale-legged Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus tenellipes
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Claudia's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus claudiae
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Pied Harrier Circus melanoleucos
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Chestnut Bunting Emberiza rutila
- Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Black Swan Cygnus atratus
- Asian Short-toed Lark Alaudala cheleensis
- Bluethroat Luscinia svecica
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Grey Nightjar Caprimulgus jotaka
- Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia
- Kentish Plover Anarhynchus alexandrinus
- Long-billed Plover Thinornis placidus
- Upland Buzzard Buteo hemilasius
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Grand Canal Forest Park?
September. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 95 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Grand Canal Forest Park?
217 species, from 5,706 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Grand Canal Forest Park in November?
The most recorded in November: Little Grebe, Azure-winged Magpie, Mallard, Oriental Magpie and Marsh Tit.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.