China · Yunnan
Napa Lake
200 species and 3,077 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: December, with up to 78 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Bar-headed GooseAnser indicus
Ruddy ShelduckTadorna ferruginea
Common MerganserMergus merganser
Red-billed ChoughPyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
Eurasian CootFulica atra
White WagtailMotacilla alba
Elliot's LaughingthrushTrochalopteron elliotii
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
Great EgretArdea alba
Grey HeronArdea cinerea
Brown-headed GullChroicocephalus brunnicephalus
Large-billed CrowCorvus macrorhynchos
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Shangri-La Alpine Botanical Garden3 km176 species
- Ganden Sumtseling Monastery7 km111 species
- Lamuyangtso Lake7 km93 species
- Potatso National Park25 km129 species
- Shudu Lake30 km104 species
- Black Snub-nosed Monkey NP38 km139 species
All 200 species recorded here
- Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea
- Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
- Bar-headed Goose Anser indicus
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca
- Eastern Spot-billed Duck Anas zonorhyncha
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Carrion Crow Corvus corone
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Himalayan Vulture Gyps himalayensis
- Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Oriental Skylark Alauda gulgula
- Pallas's Gull Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus
- Daurian Jackdaw Coloeus dauuricus
- Brown-headed Gull Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus
- Large-billed Crow Corvus macrorhynchos
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Elliot's Laughingthrush Trochalopteron elliotii
- Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
- Eurasian Wigeon Mareca penelope
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Grey-backed Shrike Lanius tephronotus
- Greylag Goose Anser anser
- Oriental Magpie Pica serica
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
- Plain Mountain Finch Leucosticte nemoricola
- Oriental Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis
- Smew Mergellus albellus
- Godlewski's Bunting Emberiza godlewskii
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina
- Eastern Cattle Egret Ardea coromanda
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Chinese Pond Heron Ardeola bacchus
- Hodgson's Redstart Phoenicurus hodgsoni
- Common Crane Grus grus
- Eurasian Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
- White-browed Fulvetta Fulvetta vinipectus
- Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla
- Rosy Pipit Anthus roseatus
- Black-rumped Magpie Pica bottanensis
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Black-headed Greenfinch Chloris ambigua
- Medium Egret Ardea intermedia
- Northern Raven Corvus corax
- Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris
- Chinese Babax Pterorhinus lanceolatus
- White-throated Redstart Phoenicurus schisticeps
- Rufous-breasted Accentor Prunella strophiata
- Common Redshank Tringa totanus
- Mongolian Gull Larus mongolicus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Common Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus
- Chestnut-vented Nuthatch Sitta nagaensis
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
- Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta
- Cinereous Tit Parus cinereus
- Chestnut Thrush Turdus rubrocanus
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- White-winged Grosbeak Mycerobas carnipes
- Rufous-tailed Babbler Moupinia poecilotis
- Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Himalayan Beautiful Rosefinch Carpodacus pulcherrimus
- Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria
- Sichuan Tit Poecile weigoldicus
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Falcated Duck Mareca falcata
- Rufous-fronted Bushtit Aegithalos iouschistos
- Giant Laughingthrush Ianthocincla maxima
- Coal Tit Periparus ater
- Siberian Stonechat Saxicola maurus
- Alpine Chough Pyrrhocorax graculus
- Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
- Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna
- Common Gull Larus canus
- Brown-breasted Bulbul Pycnonotus xanthorrhous
- Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus
- Grey-crested Tit Lophophanes dichrous
- Chinese White-browed Rosefinch Carpodacus dubius
- Oriental Magpie-Robin Copsychus saularis
- Siberian Long-tailed Rosefinch Carpodacus sibiricus
- Blue-fronted Redstart Phoenicurus frontalis
- Yellow-streaked Warbler Phylloscopus armandii
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Asian House Martin Delichon dasypus
- Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola
- White-browed Tit-warbler Leptopoecile sophiae
- Chinese Fulvetta Fulvetta striaticollis
- Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
- Himalayan Buzzard Buteo refectus
- Siberian Pipit Anthus japonicus
- Brown Accentor Prunella fulvescens
- Naumann's Thrush Turdus naumanni
- Red-throated Thrush Turdus ruficollis
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Goldcrest Regulus regulus
- Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Black-bibbed Tit Poecile hypermelaenus
- Spotted Dove Spilopelia chinensis
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Pink-rumped Rosefinch Carpodacus waltoni
- White-browed Laughingthrush Pterorhinus sannio
- White-cheeked Starling Spodiopsar cineraceus
- Tickell's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus affinis
- Rufous-vented Tit Periparus rubidiventris
- White-capped Redstart Phoenicurus leucocephalus
- Southern Nutcracker Nucifraga hemispila
- Maroon-backed Accentor Prunella immaculata
- Oriental Greenfinch Chloris sinica
- Black-throated Thrush Turdus atrogularis
- Grey-headed Bullfinch Pyrrhula erythaca
- Dusky Thrush Turdus eunomus
- Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva
- Green-backed Tit Parus monticolus
- Asian Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia episcopus
- Red Collared Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica
- White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus
- Hume's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus humei
- Himalayan Prinia Prinia crinigera
- Pacific Swift Apus pacificus
- Taiga Bean Goose Anser fabalis
- Russet Sparrow Passer cinnamomeus
- Upland Buzzard Buteo hemilasius
- Buff-barred Warbler Phylloscopus pulcher
- Güldenstädt's Redstart Phoenicurus erythrogastrus
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Grey-headed Lapwing Vanellus cinereus
- Yunnan Nuthatch Sitta yunnanensis
- Hill Prinia Prinia superciliaris
- Lady Amherst's Pheasant Chrysolophus amherstiae
- Hill Pigeon Columba rupestris
- Eurasian Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne rupestris
- Sharpe's Rosefinch Carpodacus verreauxii
- Eurasian Goshawk Astur gentilis
- Yellow Bittern Botaurus sinensis
- Collared Crow Corvus torquatus
- Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus
- Eastern Buzzard Buteo japonicus
- Brambling Fringilla montifringilla
- Chinese Blackbird Turdus mandarinus
- Cotton Pygmy Goose Nettapus coromandelianus
- Indian Spot-billed Duck Anas poecilorhyncha
- Bluethroat Luscinia svecica
- Pale Martin Riparia diluta
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Large Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx sparverioides
- Pacific Swift Apus pacificus
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
- Pheasant-tailed Jacana Hydrophasianus chirurgus
- Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- Plain Prinia Prinia inornata
- Grey-headed Swamphen Porphyrio poliocephalus
- Aberrant Bush Warbler Horornis flavolivaceus
- Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus
- Red-billed Starling Spodiopsar sericeus
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher Culicicapa ceylonensis
- Pied Bush Chat Saxicola caprata
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- Garganey Spatula querquedula
- Black-throated Bushtit Aegithalos concinnus
- Upland Pipit Anthus sylvanus
- Blood Pheasant Ithaginis cruentus
- White Eared Pheasant Crossoptilon crossoptilon
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Tundra Bean Goose Anser serrirostris
- Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius
- Short-billed Minivet Pericrocotus brevirostris
- Warbling White-eye Zosterops japonicus
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach
- Plumbeous Water Redstart Phoenicurus fuliginosus
- Yellow-throated Bunting Emberiza elegans
- Buff-throated Warbler Phylloscopus subaffinis
- House Swift Apus nipalensis
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Napa Lake?
December. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 78 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Napa Lake?
200 species, from 3,077 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Napa Lake in November?
The most recorded in November: Bar-headed Goose, Ruddy Shelduck, Common Merganser, Red-billed Chough and Eurasian Coot.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.