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Ming Tombs Reservoir
215 species and 7,046 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: March–April, with up to 88 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Oriental MagpiePica serica
Common MerganserMergus merganser
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
Oriental GreenfinchChloris sinica
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
Grey HeronArdea cinerea
Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
Carrion CrowCorvus corone
BramblingFringilla montifringilla
SmewMergellus albellus
Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo60 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 215 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Ming Tombs3 km83 species
- Changping City Riverside Forest Park6 km187 species
- Peking University - Changping Campus7 km40 species
- Heishanzhai11 km69 species
- Shahe Reservoir – North Shore15 km231 species
- Shahe Reservoir – Gonghuacheng Peninsula15 km261 species
All 215 species recorded here
- Oriental Magpie Pica serica
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
- Oriental Greenfinch Chloris sinica
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Carrion Crow Corvus corone
- Pallas's Reed Bunting Emberiza pallasi
- Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
- Azure-winged Magpie Cyanopica cyanus
- Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis
- Naumann's Thrush Turdus naumanni
- Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla
- Cinereous Tit Parus cinereus
- Light-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis
- Meadow Bunting Emberiza cioides
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Brambling Fringilla montifringilla
- Pine Bunting Emberiza leucocephalos
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Large-billed Crow Corvus macrorhynchos
- Vinous-throated Parrotbill Suthora webbiana
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Smew Mergellus albellus
- Silver-throated Bushtit Aegithalos glaucogularis
- Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Siberian Accentor Prunella montanella
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
- Spotted Dove Spilopelia chinensis
- Beijing Babbler Rhopophilus pekinensis
- Oriental Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Siberian Pipit Anthus japonicus
- Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus canicapillus
- Eastern Spot-billed Duck Anas zonorhyncha
- Ochre-rumped Bunting Emberiza yessoensis
- Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
- Mongolian Gull Larus mongolicus
- Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
- Chinese Grey Shrike Lanius sphenocercus
- Marsh Tit Poecile palustris
- Japanese Quail Coturnix japonica
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Dusky Thrush Turdus eunomus
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Amur Stonechat Saxicola stejnegeri
- Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus
- Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus
- Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
- Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
- Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus
- Eastern Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica
- Yellow-throated Bunting Emberiza elegans
- Eastern Buzzard Buteo japonicus
- Grey-headed Woodpecker Picus canus
- Falcated Duck Mareca falcata
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
- Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
- Chinese Nuthatch Sitta villosa
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Tundra Bean Goose Anser serrirostris
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Baikal Teal Sibirionetta formosa
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail Motacilla tschutschensis
- Richard's Pipit Anthus richardi
- Upland Buzzard Buteo hemilasius
- Yellow-bellied Tit Periparus venustulus
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- Red-throated Thrush Turdus ruficollis
- Pallas's Gull Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus
- Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
- Chinese Pond Heron Ardeola bacchus
- Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis
- Taiga Bean Goose Anser fabalis
- Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni
- Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola
- Godlewski's Bunting Emberiza godlewskii
- Asian Short-toed Lark Alaudala cheleensis
- Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Daurian Jackdaw Coloeus dauuricus
- Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus
- White-cheeked Starling Spodiopsar cineraceus
- Pallas's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus proregulus
- Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata
- Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus
- Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Eastern Cattle Egret Ardea coromanda
- Hill Pigeon Columba rupestris
- Chinese Blackbird Turdus mandarinus
- Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla
- Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus
- Swinhoe's Rail Coturnicops exquisitus
- Lanceolated Warbler Locustella lanceolata
- Eurasian Goshawk Astur gentilis
- Long-billed Plover Thinornis placidus
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Greylag Goose Anser anser
- Eurasian Wigeon Mareca penelope
- Black-faced Bunting Emberiza spodocephala
- Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Japanese Waxwing Bombycilla japonica
- Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
- Grey-headed Lapwing Vanellus cinereus
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
- Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Eastern Marsh Harrier Circus spilonotus
- Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus
- Chestnut-eared Bunting Emberiza fucata
- Black-throated Loon Gavia arctica
- Common Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus
- Kentish Plover Anarhynchus alexandrinus
- Siberian Rubythroat Calliope calliope
- Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus
- Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach
- Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Crested Kingfisher Megaceryle lugubris
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Chinese Grosbeak Eophona migratoria
- Blyth's Pipit Anthus godlewskii
- Common Crane Grus grus
- Stejneger's Scoter Melanitta stejnegeri
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Pied Harrier Circus melanoleucos
- Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis
- Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
- Baikal Bush Warbler Locustella davidi
- Eurasian Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
- Mongolian Short-toed Lark Calandrella dukhunensis
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Desert Wheatear Oenanthe deserti
- Rook Corvus frugilegus
- Black-browed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus bistrigiceps
- Band-bellied Crake Zapornia paykullii
- Medium Egret Ardea intermedia
- Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus
- Radde's Warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi
- Bluethroat Luscinia svecica
- Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler Helopsaltes certhiola
- Pin-tailed Snipe Gallinago stenura
- Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- Warbling White-eye Zosterops japonicus
- Redpoll Acanthis flammea
- Eurasian Siskin Spinus spinus
- Black Swan Cygnus atratus
- Red-billed Starling Spodiopsar sericeus
- Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum
- Grey-faced Buzzard Butastur indicus
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
- Long-tailed Minivet Pericrocotus ethologus
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca
- Tristram's Bunting Emberiza tristrami
- Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella
- Black-throated Thrush Turdus atrogularis
- Pacific Swift Apus pacificus
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Coal Tit Periparus ater
- Common Gull Larus canus
- Thick-billed Warbler Arundinax aedon
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopaceus
- Large Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx sparverioides
- Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva
- Yellow-browed Bunting Emberiza chrysophrys
- Indian Cuckoo Cuculus micropterus
- Manchurian Bush Warbler Horornis canturians
- Yellow-rumped Flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia
- Oriental Scops Owl Otus sunia
- Eurasian Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs
- Eurasian Nuthatch Sitta europaea
- Mute Swan Cygnus olor
- Bar-headed Goose Anser indicus
- Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Chinese Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza soloensis
- Two-barred Warbler Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus
- Japanese Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza gularis
- Crested Lark Galerida cristata
- Goldcrest Regulus regulus
- Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
- Pallas's Rosefinch Carpodacus roseus
- Russet Sparrow Passer cinnamomeus
- Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris
- Oriental Dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Ming Tombs Reservoir?
March–April. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 88 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Ming Tombs Reservoir?
215 species, from 7,046 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Ming Tombs Reservoir in November?
The most recorded in November: Oriental Magpie, Common Merganser, Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe and Oriental Greenfinch.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.