China · Sichuan
Mount Emei
298 species and 3,817 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: May–June, with up to 118 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Elliot's LaughingthrushTrochalopteron elliotii
Grey-hooded FulvettaFulvetta cinereiceps
Yellow-browed TitSylviparus modestus
Grey-crested TitLophophanes dichrous
Stripe-throated YuhinaYuhina gularis
Golden ParrotbillSuthora verreauxi
Golden-breasted FulvettaLioparus chrysotis
Grey-headed WoodpeckerPicus canus
Great ParrotbillParadoxornis aemodius
Rufous-fronted BushtitAegithalos iouschistosSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Mount Emei – Golden Summit & upper elevations3 km226 species
- Mount Emei – Hongchunping3 km101 species
- Mount Emei – Wannian Temple5 km153 species
- Mount Emei – Fuhu Temple8 km90 species
- Mount Emei – Baoguo Temple9 km198 species
- Wawu Mountain – Jinhuaqiao37 km82 species
All 298 species recorded here
- Green-backed Tit Parus monticolus
- Red-billed Leiothrix Leiothrix lutea
- Plumbeous Water Redstart Phoenicurus fuliginosus
- Elliot's Laughingthrush Trochalopteron elliotii
- Blue Whistling Thrush Myophonus caeruleus
- Large-billed Crow Corvus macrorhynchos
- Collared Finchbill Spizixos semitorques
- Rufous-capped Babbler Cyanoderma ruficeps
- Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus
- White-collared Yuhina Parayuhina diademata
- Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus ruficollis
- Light-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis
- Hair-crested Drongo Dicrurus hottentottus
- Grey-hooded Fulvetta Fulvetta cinereiceps
- Brown-flanked Bush Warbler Horornis fortipes
- Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher Culicicapa ceylonensis
- Large-billed Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus magnirostris
- Vinaceous Rosefinch Carpodacus vinaceus
- Black-chinned Yuhina Yuhina nigrimenta
- Large Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx sparverioides
- Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
- Pygmy Cupwing Pnoepyga pusilla
- Yellow-browed Tit Sylviparus modestus
- Black-throated Bushtit Aegithalos concinnus
- Sichuan Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus forresti
- Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Rufous-vented Tit Periparus rubidiventris
- Slaty-backed Forktail Enicurus schistaceus
- Necklaced Woodpecker Dryobates pernyii
- Himalayan Swiftlet Aerodramus brevirostris
- Cinereous Tit Parus cinereus
- White-browed Laughingthrush Pterorhinus sannio
- Aberrant Bush Warbler Horornis flavolivaceus
- Long-tailed Minivet Pericrocotus ethologus
- Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher Ficedula strophiata
- Great Barbet Psilopogon virens
- Speckled Wood Pigeon Columba hodgsonii
- Little Forktail Enicurus scouleri
- Lesser Cuckoo Cuculus poliocephalus
- Red-winged Laughingthrush Trochalopteron formosum
- Rufous-faced Warbler Abroscopus albogularis
- Coal Tit Periparus ater
- Yellow-bellied Tit Periparus venustulus
- Grey-crested Tit Lophophanes dichrous
- Brown Dipper Cinclus pallasii
- Buff-barred Warbler Phylloscopus pulcher
- Eastern Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica
- Chinese Bamboo Partridge Bambusicola thoracicus
- Warbling White-eye Zosterops japonicus
- David's Fulvetta Alcippe davidi
- Asian House Martin Delichon dasypus
- Chestnut-crowned Warbler Phylloscopus castaniceps
- Stripe-throated Yuhina Yuhina gularis
- Ashy-throated Parrotbill Suthora alphonsiana
- Golden Parrotbill Suthora verreauxi
- Oriental Magpie-Robin Copsychus saularis
- Slaty-blue Flycatcher Ficedula tricolor
- Grey-headed Bullfinch Pyrrhula erythaca
- Darjeeling Woodpecker Dendrocopos darjellensis
- Rufous-breasted Accentor Prunella strophiata
- Lady Amherst's Pheasant Chrysolophus amherstiae
- White-capped Redstart Phoenicurus leucocephalus
- Claudia's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus claudiae
- Mrs. Gould's Sunbird Aethopyga gouldiae
- Spotted Laughingthrush Ianthocincla ocellata
- Martens's Warbler Phylloscopus omeiensis
- Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopaceus
- Golden-breasted Fulvetta Lioparus chrysotis
- Chinese Blackbird Turdus mandarinus
- Brown-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa muttui
- Grey-headed Woodpecker Picus canus
- Yellow-bellied Bush Warbler Horornis acanthizoides
- Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach
- Mountain Bulbul Ixos mcclellandii
- Collared Owlet Taenioptynx brodiei
- White-bellied Redstart Luscinia phaenicuroides
- House Swift Apus nipalensis
- Emei Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus emeiensis
- Grey Treepie Dendrocitta formosae
- Black-headed Sibia Heterophasia desgodinsi
- Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
- Verditer Flycatcher Eumyias thalassinus
- Eurasian Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
- Fork-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga christinae
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Bay Woodpecker Blythipicus pyrrhotis
- White-crowned Forktail Enicurus leschenaulti
- Sulphur-breasted Warbler Phylloscopus ricketti
- Spotted Forktail Enicurus maculatus
- Ferruginous Flycatcher Muscicapa ferruginea
- Fujian Niltava Niltava davidi
- Pacific Swift Apus pacificus
- Blue-winged Minla Actinodura cyanouroptera
- Himalayan Cuckoo Cuculus saturatus
- Chestnut Thrush Turdus rubrocanus
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
- Temminck's Tragopan Tragopan temminckii
- Black-faced Laughingthrush Trochalopteron affine
- Red-tailed Minla Minla ignotincta
- Spotted Dove Spilopelia chinensis
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Chinese Blue Flycatcher Cyornis glaucicomans
- Greenish Warbler Phylloscopus trochiloides
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Chestnut-crowned Bush Warbler Cettia major
- Dark-breasted Rosefinch Procarduelis nipalensis
- Dusky Fulvetta Schoeniparus brunneus
- Golden Bush Robin Tarsiger chrysaeus
- Bianchi's Warbler Phylloscopus valentini
- Slaty Bunting Emberiza siemsseni
- Blyth's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus reguloides
- Pere David's Tit Poecile davidi
- Chestnut-flanked White-eye Zosterops erythropleurus
- Ashy-throated Warbler Phylloscopus maculipennis
- Eurasian Nuthatch Sitta europaea
- White-rumped Munia Lonchura striata
- Chestnut-headed Tesia Cettia castaneocoronata
- Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa sibirica
- Chestnut-vented Nuthatch Sitta nagaensis
- Asian Barred Owlet Glaucidium cuculoides
- Brown-breasted Bulbul Pycnonotus xanthorrhous
- Alström's Warbler Phylloscopus soror
- Scaly-breasted Cupwing Pnoepyga albiventer
- Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus
- White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus
- Rufous-bellied Niltava Niltava sundara
- Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon Treron sphenurus
- White-browed Shrike-babbler Pteruthius aeralatus
- Grey-headed Parrotbill Paradoxornis gularis
- Chinese Vivid Niltava Niltava oatesi
- White-throated Laughingthrush Pterorhinus albogularis
- Hodgson's Treecreeper Certhia hodgsoni
- Pallas's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus proregulus
- Black Baza Aviceda leuphotes
- White-tailed Robin Myiomela leucura
- Buff-throated Warbler Phylloscopus subaffinis
- Speckled Piculet Picumnus innominatus
- Kloss's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus ogilviegranti
- Fire-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum ignipectus
- White-browed Bush Robin Tarsiger indicus
- Himalayan Shortwing Brachypteryx cruralis
- Chinese Babax Pterorhinus lanceolatus
- Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus
- Spectacled Fulvetta Fulvetta ruficapilla
- Indochinese Yuhina Staphida torqueola
- Spotted Bush Warbler Locustella thoracica
- Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus canicapillus
- Asian Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa dauurica
- Collared Scops Owl Otus lettia
- Brown Parrotbill Paradoxornis unicolor
- Tiger Shrike Lanius tigrinus
- Oriental Scops Owl Otus sunia
- Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus
- Grey-sided Bush Warbler Cettia brunnifrons
- Two-barred Warbler Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus
- Southern Nutcracker Nucifraga hemispila
- Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni
- Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus
- Green Shrike-babbler Pteruthius xanthochlorus
- Brown Bullfinch Pyrrhula nipalensis
- Chinese Fulvetta Fulvetta striaticollis
- Long-tailed Thrush Zoothera dixoni
- Grey Bush Chat Saxicola ferreus
- Grey-hooded Parrotbill Suthora zappeyi
- Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus
- Oriental Greenfinch Chloris sinica
- Indian Cuckoo Cuculus micropterus
- Chinese Thrush Turdus mupinensis
- Purple Cochoa Cochoa purpurea
- Great Parrotbill Paradoxornis aemodius
- Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros
- Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus
- Swinhoe's Minivet Pericrocotus cantonensis
- Indian White-eye Zosterops palpebrosus
- Fulvous Parrotbill Suthora fulvifrons
- Grey Nightjar Caprimulgus jotaka
- Tickell's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus affinis
- Blanford's Rosefinch Agraphospiza rubescens
- Crested Serpent Eagle Spilornis cheela
- Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus
- Dusky Thrush Turdus eunomus
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Fire-capped Tit Cephalopyrus flammiceps
- Indian Blue Robin Larvivora brunnea
- Oriental Magpie Pica serica
- Bar-winged Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis troglodytoides
- Yellow-throated Bunting Emberiza elegans
- Common Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus
- Eastern Cattle Egret Ardea coromanda
- Slaty-backed Flycatcher Ficedula erithacus
- Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo Surniculus lugubris
- Eyebrowed Thrush Turdus obscurus
- Chinese Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza soloensis
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
- Vinous-throated Parrotbill Suthora webbiana
- Arctic Warbler Phylloscopus borealis
- Goldcrest Regulus regulus
- Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush Pterorhinus pectoralis
- Dark-rumped Rosefinch Carpodacus edwardsii
- Rufous-fronted Bushtit Aegithalos iouschistos
- Yellow-bellied Fantail Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus
- Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
- Red-billed Starling Spodiopsar sericeus
- Hume's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus humei
- White-spectacled Warbler Phylloscopus intermedius
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Besra Tachyspiza virgata
- Snowy-browed Flycatcher Ficedula hyperythra
- Grey-backed Shrike Lanius tephronotus
- Pacific Swift Apus pacificus
- Siberian Thrush Geokichla sibirica
- Brown Bush Warbler Locustella luteoventris
- White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Maroon-backed Accentor Prunella immaculata
- Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla
- Yellow-streaked Warbler Phylloscopus armandii
- Rosy Pipit Anthus roseatus
- Black Eagle Ictinaetus malaiensis
- Crested Goshawk Lophospiza trivirgata
- Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus
- Streaked Barwing Actinodura souliei
- Plain Prinia Prinia inornata
- Oriental Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis
- Plain Mountain Finch Leucosticte nemoricola
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush Monticola rufiventris
- Himalayan Bluetail Tarsiger rufilatus
- Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides tridactylus
- Black-winged Cuckooshrike Lalage melaschistos
- White-winged Grosbeak Mycerobas carnipes
- Chinese Pond Heron Ardeola bacchus
- Chinese Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus yunnanensis
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus
- Russet Bush Warbler Locustella mandelli
- Chinese Bush Warbler Locustella tacsanowskia
- Medium Egret Ardea intermedia
- Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla
- Blue-fronted Redstart Phoenicurus frontalis
- Lesser Shortwing Brachypteryx leucophris
- Rufous-winged Buzzard Butastur liventer
- Short-billed Minivet Pericrocotus brevirostris
- Alpine Accentor Prunella collaris
- Himalayan Owl Strix nivicolum
- Brown Boobook Ninox scutulata
- Cinnamon Bittern Botaurus cinnamomeus
- Grey-crowned Warbler Phylloscopus tephrocephalus
- Three-toed Parrotbill Paradoxornis paradoxus
- Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx nisicolor
- Spectacled Parrotbill Suthora conspicillata
- Meadow Bunting Emberiza cioides
- Chestnut-winged Cuckoo Clamator coromandus
- Russet Sparrow Passer cinnamomeus
- Mugimaki Flycatcher Ficedula mugimaki
- Firethroat Calliope pectardens
- Amur Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone incei
- Sooty Bushtit Aegithalos fuliginosus
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Radde's Warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi
- Yellow-rumped Flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia
- Spot-breasted Parrotbill Paradoxornis guttaticollis
- Rufous-tailed Robin Larvivora sibilans
- Three-banded Rosefinch Carpodacus trifasciatus
- Pale Martin Riparia diluta
- Grey-faced Buzzard Butastur indicus
- Red-whiskered Bulbul Pycnonotus jocosus
- Siberian Stonechat Saxicola maurus
- Grey-winged Blackbird Turdus boulboul
- Grey-backed Thrush Turdus hortulorum
- Carrion Crow Corvus corone
- White-throated Fantail Rhipidura albicollis
- Eurasian Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne rupestris
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Rufous-bellied Woodpecker Dendrocopos hyperythrus
- Gould's Shortwing Heteroxenicus stellatus
- Scaly Thrush Zoothera dauma
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Scaly-breasted Munia Lonchura punctulata
- Sichuan Thrush Zoothera griseiceps
- Chinese White-browed Rosefinch Carpodacus dubius
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Eastern Spot-billed Duck Anas zonorhyncha
- Black-naped Oriole Oriolus chinensis
- Red-headed Trogon Harpactes erythrocephalus
- Chestnut-eared Bunting Emberiza fucata
- White-winged Magpie Urocissa whiteheadi
- Rusty-capped Fulvetta Schoeniparus dubius
- Japanese Grosbeak Eophona personata
- Bull-headed Shrike Lanius bucephalus
- Siberian Pipit Anthus japonicus
- Collared Grosbeak Mycerobas affinis
- Tristram's Bunting Emberiza tristrami
- Bar-tailed Treecreeper Certhia himalayana
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Mount Emei?
May–June. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 118 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Mount Emei?
298 species, from 3,817 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Mount Emei in November?
The most recorded in November: Elliot's Laughingthrush, Grey-hooded Fulvetta, Yellow-browed Tit, Grey-crested Tit and Stripe-throated Yuhina.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.