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Nanhui Dongtan
392 species and 136,290 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: April–May and October, with up to 259 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Little EgretEgretta garzetta
Long-tailed ShrikeLanius schach
Daurian RedstartPhoenicurus auroreus
Grey HeronArdea cinerea
White WagtailMotacilla alba
Light-vented BulbulPycnonotus sinensis
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
Spotted DoveSpilopelia chinensis
Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
Eastern Spot-billed DuckAnas zonorhyncha
Crested MynaAcridotheres cristatellus
Red-flanked BluetailTarsiger cyanurus
Great EgretArdea alba
Pale ThrushTurdus pallidusSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Nanhui2 km240 species
- Nanhui Dongtan – Basic Farmland3 km81 species
- Nanhui Dongtan – No.3-8 Woods4 km118 species
- Nanhuizui Sea-viewing Park4 km250 species
- Dishui Lake4 km235 species
- Chifenggang Wetlands4 km102 species
All 392 species recorded here
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach
- Light-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis
- Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Spotted Dove Spilopelia chinensis
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Plain Prinia Prinia inornata
- Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
- Vinous-throated Parrotbill Suthora webbiana
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail Motacilla tschutschensis
- Kentish Plover Anarhynchus alexandrinus
- Eastern Spot-billed Duck Anas zonorhyncha
- Black-faced Bunting Emberiza spodocephala
- Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
- Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Oriental Magpie Pica serica
- Asian Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa dauurica
- Eastern Cattle Egret Ardea coromanda
- White-cheeked Starling Spodiopsar cineraceus
- Chinese Pond Heron Ardeola bacchus
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Pale Thrush Turdus pallidus
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
- Chinese Blackbird Turdus mandarinus
- Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis
- Reed Parrotbill Paradoxornis heudei
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus
- Blue-and-white Flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelana
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus
- Medium Egret Ardea intermedia
- Pallas's Reed Bunting Emberiza pallasi
- Eastern Marsh Harrier Circus spilonotus
- Siberian Pipit Anthus japonicus
- Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni
- Cinereous Tit Parus cinereus
- Oriental Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis
- Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Eastern Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus coronatus
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
- Manchurian Bush Warbler Horornis canturians
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Black-collared Starling Gracupica nigricollis
- Oriental Skylark Alauda gulgula
- Chinese Penduline Tit Remiz consobrinus
- Falcated Duck Mareca falcata
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Dusky Thrush Turdus eunomus
- Pallas's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus proregulus
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia
- Oriental Reed Warbler Acrocephalus orientalis
- Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Grey-backed Thrush Turdus hortulorum
- White's Thrush Zoothera aurea
- Eurasian Wigeon Mareca penelope
- Tristram's Bunting Emberiza tristrami
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Arctic Warbler Phylloscopus borealis
- Narcissus Flycatcher Ficedula narcissina
- Black Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone atrocaudata
- Chinese Grosbeak Eophona migratoria
- Lesser Coucal Centropus bengalensis
- Eastern Buzzard Buteo japonicus
- Mugimaki Flycatcher Ficedula mugimaki
- Richard's Pipit Anthus richardi
- Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Chestnut-eared Bunting Emberiza fucata
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- Oriental Magpie-Robin Copsychus saularis
- Pale-legged Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus tenellipes
- Brambling Fringilla montifringilla
- Amur Stonechat Saxicola stejnegeri
- Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus
- Yellow-throated Bunting Emberiza elegans
- Garganey Spatula querquedula
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Yellow-rumped Flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia
- Common Redshank Tringa totanus
- Yellow Bittern Botaurus sinensis
- Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta
- Black-naped Oriole Oriolus chinensis
- Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus
- Japanese Thrush Turdus cardis
- Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum
- Siberian Blue Robin Larvivora cyane
- Grey-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa sibirica
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Eyebrowed Thrush Turdus obscurus
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Eastern Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Grey-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta
- Siberian Rubythroat Calliope calliope
- Warbling White-eye Zosterops japonicus
- Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
- Red-billed Starling Spodiopsar sericeus
- Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica
- Rufous-tailed Robin Larvivora sibilans
- Oriental Greenfinch Chloris sinica
- Black-tailed Gull Larus crassirostris
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Tiger Shrike Lanius tigrinus
- Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris
- Siberian Thrush Geokichla sibirica
- Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus
- Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna
- Hair-crested Drongo Dicrurus hottentottus
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
- Marsh Grassbird Helopsaltes pryeri
- Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla
- Little Tern Sternula albifrons
- Bluethroat Luscinia svecica
- Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva
- Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Japanese Quail Coturnix japonica
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Amur Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone incei
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- Red Collared Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica
- Black-winged Cuckooshrike Lalage melaschistos
- Sakhalin Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus borealoides
- Bull-headed Shrike Lanius bucephalus
- Eurasian Siskin Spinus spinus
- Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
- Brown-eared Bulbul Hypsipetes amaurotis
- Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus
- Northern Boobook Ninox japonica
- Oriental Dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis
- White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis
- Asian Stubtail Urosphena squameiceps
- Goldcrest Regulus regulus
- Yellow-bellied Tit Periparus venustulus
- Brown-headed Thrush Turdus chrysolaus
- Yellow-browed Bunting Emberiza chrysophrys
- Mongolian Gull Larus mongolicus
- Oriental Scops Owl Otus sunia
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
- Pacific Swift Apus pacificus
- Chinese Grey Shrike Lanius sphenocercus
- Himalayan Swiftlet Aerodramus brevirostris
- White-throated Rock Thrush Monticola gularis
- Scaly-breasted Munia Lonchura punctulata
- Black-browed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus bistrigiceps
- Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta
- Pechora Pipit Anthus gustavi
- Grey-headed Lapwing Vanellus cinereus
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Ashy Minivet Pericrocotus divaricatus
- Naumann's Thrush Turdus naumanni
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Ashy Drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus
- Asian Dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata
- Chestnut Bunting Emberiza rutila
- Pied Harrier Circus melanoleucos
- Lesser Cuckoo Cuculus poliocephalus
- Pheasant-tailed Jacana Hydrophasianus chirurgus
- Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
- Vega Gull Larus vegae
- Azure-winged Magpie Cyanopica cyanus
- Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Japanese Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza gularis
- Little Curlew Numenius minutus
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
- Baikal Teal Sibirionetta formosa
- Ochre-rumped Bunting Emberiza yessoensis
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Grey Treepie Dendrocitta formosae
- Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus
- Radde's Warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi
- Grey Nightjar Caprimulgus jotaka
- Rufous-faced Warbler Abroscopus albogularis
- Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola
- Collared Finchbill Spizixos semitorques
- Tundra Bean Goose Anser serrirostris
- Brown-flanked Bush Warbler Horornis fortipes
- Red-breasted Flycatcher Ficedula parva
- Indian Cuckoo Cuculus micropterus
- Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
- Verditer Flycatcher Eumyias thalassinus
- Sulphur-breasted Warbler Phylloscopus ricketti
- Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola
- Swinhoe's Snipe Gallinago megala
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- Large-billed Crow Corvus macrorhynchos
- Kamchatka Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus examinandus
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Two-barred Warbler Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus
- Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Japanese Cormorant Phalacrocorax capillatus
- Pin-tailed Snipe Gallinago stenura
- Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
- White-rumped Munia Lonchura striata
- Japanese Robin Larvivora akahige
- Swinhoe's Minivet Pericrocotus cantonensis
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Taiga Bean Goose Anser fabalis
- Chestnut Bulbul Hemixos castanonotus
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Crested Goshawk Lophospiza trivirgata
- Black Scoter Melanitta americana
- Brown Crake Zapornia akool
- Claudia's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus claudiae
- Chinese Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza soloensis
- Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea
- Cinnamon Bittern Botaurus cinnamomeus
- Alström's Warbler Phylloscopus soror
- Eurasian Goshawk Astur gentilis
- Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
- White-shouldered Starling Sturnia sinensis
- Black-throated Bushtit Aegithalos concinnus
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Brown-cheeked Rail Rallus indicus
- Grey-faced Buzzard Butastur indicus
- Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Smew Mergellus albellus
- Brown-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa muttui
- Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus
- Japanese Grosbeak Eophona personata
- Chestnut-cheeked Starling Agropsar philippensis
- Rook Corvus frugilegus
- Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopaceus
- Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
- Japanese Waxwing Bombycilla japonica
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Chinese Thrush Turdus mupinensis
- Northern Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx hyperythrus
- Daurian Starling Agropsar sturninus
- Long-eared Owl Asio otus
- Oriental Plover Anarhynchus veredus
- Large Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx sparverioides
- Thick-billed Warbler Arundinax aedon
- Bianchi's Warbler Phylloscopus valentini
- Ryukyu Minivet Pericrocotus tegimae
- Hume's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus humei
- Greater Crested Tern Thalasseus bergii
- Common Gull Larus canus
- Common Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus
- Yellow Bunting Emberiza sulphurata
- Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher Culicicapa ceylonensis
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Carrion Crow Corvus corone
- Pale Martin Riparia diluta
- Asian House Martin Delichon dasypus
- Forest Wagtail Dendronanthus indicus
- Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes
- Stejneger's Scoter Melanitta stejnegeri
- Cotton Pygmy Goose Nettapus coromandelianus
- White-bellied Green Pigeon Treron sieboldii
- Grey-crowned Warbler Phylloscopus tephrocephalus
- Lesser Frigatebird Fregata ariel
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus
- Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii
- Lanceolated Warbler Locustella lanceolata
- Japanese Scops Owl Otus semitorques
- Blue Whistling Thrush Myophonus caeruleus
- Masked Laughingthrush Pterorhinus perspicillatus
- House Crow Corvus splendens
- Red-throated Thrush Turdus ruficollis
- Japanese Bush Warbler Horornis diphone
- Chestnut-flanked White-eye Zosterops erythropleurus
- Black Bittern Botaurus flavicollis
- Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros
- Gray's Grasshopper Warbler Helopsaltes fasciolatus
- Silver-throated Bushtit Aegithalos glaucogularis
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Upland Buzzard Buteo hemilasius
- Eurasian Treecreeper Certhia familiaris
- Black-throated Loon Gavia arctica
- Hartert's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus goodsoni
- Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
- House Swift Apus nipalensis
- Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus
- Tickell's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus affinis
- Masked Bunting Emberiza personata
- Japanese Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus xanthodryas
- Chinese Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus yunnanensis
- Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler Helopsaltes ochotensis
- Greylag Goose Anser anser
- Common Crane Grus grus
- Green-backed Flycatcher Ficedula elisae
- Orange-headed Thrush Geokichla citrina
- Grey Bush Chat Saxicola ferreus
- Brown-breasted Bulbul Pycnonotus xanthorrhous
- Ryukyu Flycatcher Ficedula owstoni
- Bridled Tern Onychoprion anaethetus
- Besra Tachyspiza virgata
- Redpoll Acanthis flammea
- Coal Tit Periparus ater
- Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler Helopsaltes certhiola
- Speckled Piculet Picumnus innominatus
- Black-naped Monarch Hypothymis azurea
- Black Swan Cygnus atratus
- Chestnut-winged Cuckoo Clamator coromandus
- Yellow-streaked Warbler Phylloscopus armandii
- White-spectacled Warbler Phylloscopus intermedius
- Collared Owlet Taenioptynx brodiei
- Grey-chinned Minivet Pericrocotus solaris
- Paddyfield Warbler Acrocephalus agricola
- Von Schrenck's Bittern Botaurus eurhythmus
- Collared Crow Corvus torquatus
- Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
- Pallas's Rosefinch Carpodacus roseus
- Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
- White-browed Laughingthrush Pterorhinus sannio
- Watercock Gallicrex cinerea
- Bar-headed Goose Anser indicus
- Russet Sparrow Passer cinnamomeus
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater Ardenna pacifica
- Sooty-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus aurigaster
- Marsh Tit Poecile palustris
- Yellow-legged Buttonquail Turnix tanki
- Chestnut-crowned Warbler Phylloscopus castaniceps
- Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus
- Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus canicapillus
- Rufous-bellied Niltava Niltava sundara
- Slaty-backed Flycatcher Ficedula erithacus
- Great Barbet Psilopogon virens
- Ruddy-breasted Crake Zapornia fusca
- Daurian Jackdaw Coloeus dauuricus
- Band-bellied Crake Zapornia paykullii
- Rosy Starling Pastor roseus
- Ruddy Kingfisher Halcyon coromanda
- Mountain Bulbul Ixos mcclellandii
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra
- Baillon's Crake Zapornia pusilla
- Fork-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga christinae
- European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria
- Scarlet Minivet Pericrocotus speciosus
- Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius
- Eurasian Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
- Indochinese Yuhina Staphida torqueola
- Red-billed Leiothrix Leiothrix lutea
- Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus optatus
- Ortolan Bunting Emberiza hortulana
- Fujian Niltava Niltava davidi
- Collared Scops Owl Otus lettia
- White-throated Laughingthrush Pterorhinus albogularis
- Rosy Pipit Anthus roseatus
- Sichuan Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus forresti
- Zappey's Flycatcher Cyanoptila cumatilis
- Slaty-breasted Rail Lewinia striata
- Meadow Bunting Emberiza cioides
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Nanhui Dongtan?
April–May and October. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 259 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Nanhui Dongtan?
392 species, from 136,290 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Nanhui Dongtan in November?
The most recorded in November: Little Egret, Long-tailed Shrike, Daurian Redstart, Grey Heron and White Wagtail.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.