Hong Kong (China)
Pak Sha O
244 species and 27,569 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: November–December, with up to 136 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Yellow-browed WarblerPhylloscopus inornatus
Chestnut BulbulHemixos castanonotus
Red-whiskered BulbulPycnonotus jocosus
Fork-tailed SunbirdAethopyga christinae
Light-vented BulbulPycnonotus sinensis
Mountain TailorbirdPhyllergates cucullatus
Cinereous TitParus cinereus
Warbling White-eyeZosterops japonicus
Spotted DoveSpilopelia chinensis
Rufous-capped BabblerCyanoderma ruficeps
Common TailorbirdOrthotomus sutorius
Asian StubtailUrosphena squameiceps
Daurian RedstartPhoenicurus auroreus
Dusky WarblerPhylloscopus fuscatusSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Yung Shue O4 km186 species
- Ho Chung Valley13 km182 species
- Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve14 km284 species
- Wutongshan National Forest Park18 km123 species
- Lung A Pai19 km160 species
- Lam Tsuen Valley19 km256 species
All 244 species recorded here
- Red-whiskered Bulbul Pycnonotus jocosus
- Chestnut Bulbul Hemixos castanonotus
- Cinereous Tit Parus cinereus
- Fork-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga christinae
- Common Tailorbird Orthotomus sutorius
- Warbling White-eye Zosterops japonicus
- Rufous-capped Babbler Cyanoderma ruficeps
- Spotted Dove Spilopelia chinensis
- Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus
- Light-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis
- Grey-chinned Minivet Pericrocotus solaris
- Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker Dicaeum cruentatum
- Mountain Bulbul Ixos mcclellandii
- White-bellied Erpornis Erpornis zantholeuca
- Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus ruficollis
- Large-billed Crow Corvus macrorhynchos
- Oriental Magpie-Robin Copsychus saularis
- Mountain Tailorbird Phyllergates cucullatus
- Scarlet Minivet Pericrocotus speciosus
- Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush Pterorhinus pectoralis
- Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni
- Pallas's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus proregulus
- Asian Stubtail Urosphena squameiceps
- Blue-winged Minla Actinodura cyanouroptera
- Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus
- Grey Treepie Dendrocitta formosae
- Rufous-tailed Robin Larvivora sibilans
- Japanese Thrush Turdus cardis
- Common Emerald Dove Chalcophaps indica
- Hartert's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus goodsoni
- Orange-bellied Leafbird Chloropsis hardwickii
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach
- Hainan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis hainanus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Grey-backed Thrush Turdus hortulorum
- Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus
- Bay Woodpecker Blythipicus pyrrhotis
- Speckled Piculet Picumnus innominatus
- Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus
- Two-barred Warbler Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus
- Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
- Amur Stonechat Saxicola stejnegeri
- Blue Whistling Thrush Myophonus caeruleus
- Pale-legged Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus tenellipes
- Great Barbet Psilopogon virens
- Black-naped Monarch Hypothymis azurea
- Black-winged Cuckooshrike Lalage melaschistos
- Mugimaki Flycatcher Ficedula mugimaki
- Crested Serpent Eagle Spilornis cheela
- Verditer Flycatcher Eumyias thalassinus
- Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx nisicolor
- Manchurian Bush Warbler Horornis canturians
- Chinese Blackbird Turdus mandarinus
- Pygmy Cupwing Pnoepyga pusilla
- Large Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx sparverioides
- Chestnut-flanked White-eye Zosterops erythropleurus
- Alström's Warbler Phylloscopus soror
- Crested Goshawk Lophospiza trivirgata
- Eastern Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus coronatus
- Fire-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum ignipectus
- White-rumped Munia Lonchura striata
- House Swift Apus nipalensis
- Lesser Shortwing Brachypteryx leucophris
- Brown-flanked Bush Warbler Horornis fortipes
- White's Thrush Zoothera aurea
- Besra Tachyspiza virgata
- Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher Culicicapa ceylonensis
- Eastern Cattle Egret Ardea coromanda
- Scaly-breasted Munia Lonchura punctulata
- Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola
- Arctic Warbler Phylloscopus borealis
- Rufous-faced Warbler Abroscopus albogularis
- Asian Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa dauurica
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Bull-headed Shrike Lanius bucephalus
- Sulphur-breasted Warbler Phylloscopus ricketti
- Black-faced Bunting Emberiza spodocephala
- Fujian Niltava Niltava davidi
- Amur Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone incei
- Hair-crested Drongo Dicrurus hottentottus
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Greater Coucal Centropus sinensis
- Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla
- Chinese Hwamei Garrulax canorus
- Eyebrowed Thrush Turdus obscurus
- Pale Thrush Turdus pallidus
- Eastern Buzzard Buteo japonicus
- Red-billed Blue Magpie Urocissa erythroryncha
- Pacific Swift Apus pacificus
- Hume's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus humei
- Yellow-cheeked Tit Machlolophus spilonotus
- Grey Nightjar Caprimulgus jotaka
- Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla
- Russet Bush Warbler Locustella mandelli
- Indochinese Yuhina Staphida torqueola
- Radde's Warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi
- Siberian Rubythroat Calliope calliope
- Kloss's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus ogilviegranti
- Chinese Pond Heron Ardeola bacchus
- Chestnut-winged Cuckoo Clamator coromandus
- Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa sibirica
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Martens's Warbler Phylloscopus omeiensis
- Brown Fish Owl Ketupa zeylonensis
- Bianchi's Warbler Phylloscopus valentini
- Plaintive Cuckoo Cacomantis merulinus
- Velvet-fronted Nuthatch Sitta frontalis
- Japanese Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza gularis
- Ashy Drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
- Black Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone atrocaudata
- Hill Blue Flycatcher Cyornis whitei
- Collared Scops Owl Otus lettia
- White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus
- Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus
- Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus
- Plain Prinia Prinia inornata
- Barred Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia unchall
- Oriental Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis
- Ashy Minivet Pericrocotus divaricatus
- Small Niltava Niltava macgrigoriae
- Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Chestnut Bunting Emberiza rutila
- Oriental Dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis
- Blue-and-white Flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelana
- Masked Laughingthrush Pterorhinus perspicillatus
- Narcissus Flycatcher Ficedula narcissina
- Tristram's Bunting Emberiza tristrami
- White-rumped Shama Copsychus malabaricus
- Yellow-rumped Flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia
- Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
- Black-collared Starling Gracupica nigricollis
- Sakhalin Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus borealoides
- Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopaceus
- Slaty-legged Crake Rallina eurizonoides
- Yellow Bunting Emberiza sulphurata
- White-spectacled Warbler Phylloscopus intermedius
- Chestnut-crowned Warbler Phylloscopus castaniceps
- Yellow-bellied Prinia Prinia flaviventris
- Blue-winged Leafbird Chloropsis moluccensis
- Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus
- Mrs. Gould's Sunbird Aethopyga gouldiae
- Emei Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus emeiensis
- Grey-faced Buzzard Butastur indicus
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo Surniculus lugubris
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail Motacilla tschutschensis
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Brown-headed Thrush Turdus chrysolaus
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Asian Barred Owlet Glaucidium cuculoides
- Grey Bush Chat Saxicola ferreus
- Savanna Nightjar Caprimulgus affinis
- Grey-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta
- Ferruginous Flycatcher Muscicapa ferruginea
- White-tailed Robin Myiomela leucura
- Forest Wagtail Dendronanthus indicus
- Lesser Coucal Centropus bengalensis
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus
- Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius
- Red-billed Starling Spodiopsar sericeus
- Yellow-browed Bunting Emberiza chrysophrys
- Siberian Thrush Geokichla sibirica
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Chestnut-eared Bunting Emberiza fucata
- Himalayan Swiftlet Aerodramus brevirostris
- Orange-headed Thrush Geokichla citrina
- Chinese Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza soloensis
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Siberian Blue Robin Larvivora cyane
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Brown-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa muttui
- White-throated Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis
- Collared Crow Corvus torquatus
- Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon Treron sphenurus
- Silver-eared Mesia Leiothrix argentauris
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Asian House Martin Delichon dasypus
- Chinese Grosbeak Eophona migratoria
- Brambling Fringilla montifringilla
- Swinhoe's Minivet Pericrocotus cantonensis
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Black-browed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus bistrigiceps
- Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler Helopsaltes certhiola
- Red Collared Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Medium Egret Ardea intermedia
- Cinnamon Bittern Botaurus cinnamomeus
- Indian Cuckoo Cuculus micropterus
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Eastern Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Eastern Marsh Harrier Circus spilonotus
- Black-naped Oriole Oriolus chinensis
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- Common Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus
- Oriental Reed Warbler Acrocephalus orientalis
- Oriental Magpie Pica serica
- Sooty-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus aurigaster
- Lanceolated Warbler Locustella lanceolata
- Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus optatus
- Silver-backed Needletail Hirundapus cochinchinensis
- Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus
- Pied Harrier Circus melanoleucos
- Red-breasted Flycatcher Ficedula parva
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Brown Wood Owl Strix leptogrammica
- Oriental Greenfinch Chloris sinica
- Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica
- Baikal Bush Warbler Locustella davidi
- Chinese Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus yunnanensis
- Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata
- Lesser Cuckoo Cuculus poliocephalus
- Von Schrenck's Bittern Botaurus eurhythmus
- Chestnut Munia Lonchura atricapilla
- Chinese Barbet Psilopogon faber
- Japanese Quail Coturnix japonica
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- Yellow-legged Buttonquail Turnix tanki
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Richard's Pipit Anthus richardi
- Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris
- Indochinese Green Magpie Cissa hypoleuca
- Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii
- Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
- White-headed Munia Lonchura maja
- Black-naped Tern Sterna sumatrana
- Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva
- Bridled Tern Onychoprion anaethetus
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Black-headed Bunting Emberiza melanocephala
- Dusky Thrush Turdus eunomus
- Pechora Pipit Anthus gustavi
- Tiger Shrike Lanius tigrinus
- Blue-tailed Bee-eater Merops philippinus
- White-shouldered Starling Sturnia sinensis
- Malayan Night Heron Gorsachius melanolophus
- White-throated Rock Thrush Monticola gularis
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Pak Sha O?
November–December. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 136 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Pak Sha O?
244 species, from 27,569 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Pak Sha O in November?
The most recorded in November: Yellow-browed Warbler, Chestnut Bulbul, Red-whiskered Bulbul, Fork-tailed Sunbird and Light-vented Bulbul.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.