Hong Kong (China)
Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve
284 species and 68,578 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: January and April, with up to 154 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Chestnut BulbulHemixos castanonotus
Red-whiskered BulbulPycnonotus jocosus
Warbling White-eyeZosterops japonicus
Yellow-browed WarblerPhylloscopus inornatus
Common TailorbirdOrthotomus sutorius
Cinereous TitParus cinereus
Fork-tailed SunbirdAethopyga christinae
Grey-chinned MinivetPericrocotus solaris
Velvet-fronted NuthatchSitta frontalis
Light-vented BulbulPycnonotus sinensis
Scarlet MinivetPericrocotus speciosus
Blue-winged MinlaActinodura cyanouroptera
Rufous-capped BabblerCyanoderma ruficeps
Spotted DoveSpilopelia chinensisSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Lung A Pai5 km160 species
- Ng Tung Chai5 km185 species
- Lam Tsuen Valley6 km256 species
- Shing Mun6 km188 species
- Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden6 km204 species
- Tai Lam Country Park10 km212 species
All 284 species recorded here
- Red-whiskered Bulbul Pycnonotus jocosus
- Chestnut Bulbul Hemixos castanonotus
- Warbling White-eye Zosterops japonicus
- Cinereous Tit Parus cinereus
- Common Tailorbird Orthotomus sutorius
- Fork-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga christinae
- Grey-chinned Minivet Pericrocotus solaris
- Blue-winged Minla Actinodura cyanouroptera
- Velvet-fronted Nuthatch Sitta frontalis
- Light-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis
- Silver-eared Mesia Leiothrix argentauris
- Spotted Dove Spilopelia chinensis
- Rufous-capped Babbler Cyanoderma ruficeps
- Scarlet Minivet Pericrocotus speciosus
- Yellow-cheeked Tit Machlolophus spilonotus
- Oriental Magpie-Robin Copsychus saularis
- Mountain Tailorbird Phyllergates cucullatus
- Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus
- Huet's Fulvetta Alcippe hueti
- Mountain Bulbul Ixos mcclellandii
- Pygmy Cupwing Pnoepyga pusilla
- Great Barbet Psilopogon virens
- Large-billed Crow Corvus macrorhynchos
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker Dicaeum cruentatum
- Pallas's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus proregulus
- Blue Whistling Thrush Myophonus caeruleus
- White-bellied Erpornis Erpornis zantholeuca
- Crested Serpent Eagle Spilornis cheela
- Orange-bellied Leafbird Chloropsis hardwickii
- Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus ruficollis
- Black-winged Cuckooshrike Lalage melaschistos
- Fire-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum ignipectus
- Asian Stubtail Urosphena squameiceps
- Hainan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis hainanus
- Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher Culicicapa ceylonensis
- Red-billed Leiothrix Leiothrix lutea
- Hartert's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus goodsoni
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Yellow-bellied Prinia Prinia flaviventris
- Lesser Shortwing Brachypteryx leucophris
- Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni
- Speckled Piculet Picumnus innominatus
- Rufous-tailed Robin Larvivora sibilans
- Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
- White-rumped Munia Lonchura striata
- Crested Goshawk Lophospiza trivirgata
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
- Bay Woodpecker Blythipicus pyrrhotis
- Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus
- Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush Pterorhinus pectoralis
- Chinese Barbet Psilopogon faber
- Grey-backed Thrush Turdus hortulorum
- Large Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx sparverioides
- Ashy Drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus
- Eastern Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus coronatus
- House Swift Apus nipalensis
- Plain Flowerpecker Dicaeum minullum
- Indochinese Yuhina Staphida torqueola
- Two-barred Warbler Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus
- Asian Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa dauurica
- Japanese Thrush Turdus cardis
- Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopaceus
- Masked Laughingthrush Pterorhinus perspicillatus
- Verditer Flycatcher Eumyias thalassinus
- Red-billed Blue Magpie Urocissa erythroryncha
- Tristram's Bunting Emberiza tristrami
- Brown-flanked Bush Warbler Horornis fortipes
- Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus
- White-spectacled Warbler Phylloscopus intermedius
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Common Emerald Dove Chalcophaps indica
- Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx nisicolor
- Amur Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone incei
- Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa sibirica
- Chinese Hwamei Garrulax canorus
- Black-collared Starling Gracupica nigricollis
- Sulphur-breasted Warbler Phylloscopus ricketti
- Arctic Warbler Phylloscopus borealis
- Black Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone atrocaudata
- Besra Tachyspiza virgata
- Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus
- Hair-crested Drongo Dicrurus hottentottus
- Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus
- Brown-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa muttui
- Chestnut-crowned Warbler Phylloscopus castaniceps
- Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach
- Oriental Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis
- Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus
- White's Thrush Zoothera aurea
- Blue-winged Leafbird Chloropsis moluccensis
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Scaly-breasted Munia Lonchura punctulata
- Asian Barred Owlet Glaucidium cuculoides
- Mrs. Gould's Sunbird Aethopyga gouldiae
- Rufous-faced Warbler Abroscopus albogularis
- Kloss's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus ogilviegranti
- Mugimaki Flycatcher Ficedula mugimaki
- Oriental Magpie Pica serica
- Plaintive Cuckoo Cacomantis merulinus
- Eyebrowed Thrush Turdus obscurus
- Chinese Pond Heron Ardeola bacchus
- Orange-headed Thrush Geokichla citrina
- Pale-legged Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus tenellipes
- Hume's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus humei
- Greater Coucal Centropus sinensis
- Japanese Robin Larvivora akahige
- Blue-and-white Flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelana
- Lesser Cuckoo Cuculus poliocephalus
- Collared Owlet Taenioptynx brodiei
- Plain Prinia Prinia inornata
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Chestnut-winged Cuckoo Clamator coromandus
- Brown Wood Owl Strix leptogrammica
- Slaty-backed Forktail Enicurus schistaceus
- Black-naped Monarch Hypothymis azurea
- Eastern Buzzard Buteo japonicus
- Forest Wagtail Dendronanthus indicus
- Collared Scops Owl Otus lettia
- Chinese Blackbird Turdus mandarinus
- Alström's Warbler Phylloscopus soror
- Pale Thrush Turdus pallidus
- Sooty-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus aurigaster
- Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Collared Crow Corvus torquatus
- Black-throated Bushtit Aegithalos concinnus
- Narcissus Flycatcher Ficedula narcissina
- Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
- Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus
- Oriental Dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis
- Grey Treepie Dendrocitta formosae
- Ferruginous Flycatcher Muscicapa ferruginea
- Siberian Rubythroat Calliope calliope
- Grey-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta
- Radde's Warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi
- Chinese Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza soloensis
- Chestnut-flanked White-eye Zosterops erythropleurus
- Siberian Thrush Geokichla sibirica
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail Motacilla tschutschensis
- Pacific Swift Apus pacificus
- Ashy Minivet Pericrocotus divaricatus
- Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus
- Yellow-rumped Flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia
- Indian Cuckoo Cuculus micropterus
- Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
- Fujian Niltava Niltava davidi
- Chestnut Bunting Emberiza rutila
- White-rumped Shama Copsychus malabaricus
- Brown-headed Thrush Turdus chrysolaus
- Siberian Blue Robin Larvivora cyane
- Japanese Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza gularis
- Bull-headed Shrike Lanius bucephalus
- Grey-faced Buzzard Butastur indicus
- Chinese Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus yunnanensis
- Amur Stonechat Saxicola stejnegeri
- Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola
- Slaty-legged Crake Rallina eurizonoides
- Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush Garrulax monileger
- Eurasian Siskin Spinus spinus
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
- White-browed Laughingthrush Pterorhinus sannio
- Manchurian Bush Warbler Horornis canturians
- House Crow Corvus splendens
- Barred Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia unchall
- Sakhalin Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus borealoides
- Eastern Cattle Egret Ardea coromanda
- Yellow-bellied Tit Periparus venustulus
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- White-shouldered Starling Sturnia sinensis
- Black Baza Aviceda leuphotes
- White-throated Rock Thrush Monticola gularis
- Red-billed Starling Spodiopsar sericeus
- Plumbeous Water Redstart Phoenicurus fuliginosus
- White-tailed Robin Myiomela leucura
- Hill Blue Flycatcher Cyornis whitei
- Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Azure-winged Magpie Cyanopica cyanus
- Medium Egret Ardea intermedia
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo Surniculus lugubris
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Black-naped Oriole Oriolus chinensis
- Lesser Coucal Centropus bengalensis
- Golden-fronted Leafbird Chloropsis aurifrons
- Bianchi's Warbler Phylloscopus valentini
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Red Collared Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- White-throated Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla
- Asian House Martin Delichon dasypus
- Black-faced Bunting Emberiza spodocephala
- Russet Bush Warbler Locustella mandelli
- Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher Ficedula strophiata
- Red-breasted Flycatcher Ficedula parva
- Eurasian Wigeon Mareca penelope
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata
- Small Niltava Niltava macgrigoriae
- Tiger Shrike Lanius tigrinus
- Yellow Bunting Emberiza sulphurata
- White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Richard's Pipit Anthus richardi
- Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler Helopsaltes certhiola
- Brown Fish Owl Ketupa zeylonensis
- Rufous-bellied Woodpecker Dendrocopos hyperythrus
- Oriental Reed Warbler Acrocephalus orientalis
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
- Eastern Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica
- Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Chinese Grosbeak Eophona migratoria
- Silver-backed Needletail Hirundapus cochinchinensis
- Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush Monticola rufiventris
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Bluethroat Luscinia svecica
- Indochinese Green Magpie Cissa hypoleuca
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Oriental Scops Owl Otus sunia
- White-cheeked Starling Spodiopsar cineraceus
- Vinous-throated Parrotbill Suthora webbiana
- Chinese Francolin Francolinus pintadeanus
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Russet Sparrow Passer cinnamomeus
- Red-tailed Minla Minla ignotincta
- Malayan Night Heron Gorsachius melanolophus
- Grey-headed Parrotbill Paradoxornis gularis
- Lanceolated Warbler Locustella lanceolata
- Pacific Reef Heron Egretta sacra
- Golden-headed Cisticola Cisticola exilis
- Alexandrine Parakeet Psittacula eupatria
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- Emei Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus emeiensis
- Garganey Spatula querquedula
- Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius
- Goldcrest Regulus regulus
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Eastern Spot-billed Duck Anas zonorhyncha
- Chestnut Munia Lonchura atricapilla
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Indian Spot-billed Duck Anas poecilorhyncha
- Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- White-headed Munia Lonchura maja
- Grey-headed Lapwing Vanellus cinereus
- Falcated Duck Mareca falcata
- Eastern Marsh Harrier Circus spilonotus
- Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Japanese Quail Coturnix japonica
- White-bellied Green Pigeon Treron sieboldii
- Oriental Greenfinch Chloris sinica
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Common Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus
- Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Savanna Nightjar Caprimulgus affinis
- Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus optatus
- Brown Bush Warbler Locustella luteoventris
- Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata
- Indian Peafowl Pavo cristatus
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Dusky Thrush Turdus eunomus
- Siberian Pipit Anthus japonicus
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius
- Grey Nightjar Caprimulgus jotaka
- Brambling Fringilla montifringilla
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve?
January and April. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 154 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve?
284 species, from 68,578 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve in November?
The most recorded in November: Chestnut Bulbul, Red-whiskered Bulbul, Warbling White-eye, Yellow-browed Warbler and Common Tailorbird.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.