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<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/07/23/field-guide-to-the-reptiles-and-amphibians-of-beijing/" rel="bookmark">Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Beijing</a></h2> </header><!-- .entry-header -->
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<p>Beijing is blessed with a surprising amount of biodiversity. More than 500 species of bird have been recorded, around 70 species of Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) and more than 1,500 native plants. This also holds true for reptiles and amphibians, with 25 reptiles (including 17 snake species) and eight species of amphibian. These totals compare favourably with the six species of reptile and seven species of amphibian that can be found in all of the UK.</p>
<p>English language resources about Beijing’s wildlife are still scarce, so it is wonderful to see the publication of the terrific “<em>A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Beijing</em>” by W. Scott Lupien, a Beijing-based herpetologist.</p>
<p>This book is a comprehensive guide to identifying all 33 species of reptile and amphibian to be found in Beijing Municipality. For each species there are stunning photographs, detailed descriptions, including how to distinguish from similar species, and maps with range information. Videos are available by scanning QR codes.</p>
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<p>The book is a very reasonable CNY 288 and can be purchased directly from the author via the website <a href="http://beijingherps.com">beijingherps.com</a>. Payment via PayPal is accepted.</p>
<p>Scott is to be congratulated on a book of the highest quality that will serve as THE reference for anyone with an interest in these magnificent creatures. And all the more appropriate that is has been published in the Year of the Snake! </p>
<p>Go and buy it!</p>
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<p>Some great news from Beijing!</p>
<p>The French Embassy in China has officially opened its Biodiversity Garden, a 3,600m² urban green space created to enhance ecological resilience and environmental awareness within the city. Launched under France’s Green Embassy initiative — a program driven by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs to reduce the environmental footprint of French diplomatic missions — the project transforms a former unused land lot into a biodiversity sanctuary for over 100 plant species, many of them native or endangered.</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="65574" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/the-ambassadors-for-nature-initiative/3_1600_3000_gif/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/3_1600_3000_gif.jpg?fit=1600%2C2400&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1600,2400" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="3_1600_3000_gif" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/3_1600_3000_gif.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/3_1600_3000_gif.jpg?fit=660%2C990&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-65574" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/3_1600_3000_gif.jpg?resize=660%2C990&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="990" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/3_1600_3000_gif.jpg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/3_1600_3000_gif.jpg?resize=200%2C300&ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/3_1600_3000_gif.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&ssl=1 683w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/3_1600_3000_gif.jpg?resize=100%2C150&ssl=1 100w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/3_1600_3000_gif.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/3_1600_3000_gif.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/3_1600_3000_gif.jpg?resize=1365%2C2048&ssl=1 1365w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/3_1600_3000_gif.jpg?resize=181%2C272&ssl=1 181w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>The project, developed in partnership with the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, not only fosters biodiversity in an urban setting but also provides a model for nature-based solutions to climate challenges, including urban cooling, improved air quality, and water retention. It also highlights the importance of international scientific cooperation – in this case between France and China – to tackle global challenges such as climate change and the protection of biodiversity.</p>
<p>The initiative also forms an integral part of the <a href="https://wildbeijing.org/the-ambassadors-for-nature-initiative/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Ambassadors for Nature</strong></a> pledge, reaffirming the Embassy’s commitment to biodiversity protection and sustainable urban living. Through this garden, France further seeks to carry forward the commitments successfully achieved in 2015 with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, whose tenth anniversary is being marked this year as well as the upcoming COP 30 taking place in Belem. By joining this collective diplomatic effort in Beijing, the French Embassy underscores the importance of international cooperation in addressing environmental challenges.</p>
<p>Together, these initiatives reflect a shared ambition to accelerate the ecological transition, promote science-driven solutions, and contribute meaningfully to the protection of our planet’s biodiversity.</p>
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<p>Big congratulations to the French Embassy and, in particular H.E. Ambassador Bertrand Lortholary, for the leadership. The project demonstrates how we can all do something to support nature in our own communities, and I am certain it will inspire others to act!</p>
<p>Click on the link to read more about the <a href="https://wildbeijing.org/the-ambassadors-for-nature-initiative/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Ambassadors for Nature initiative.</strong></a></p>
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<p>The Beijing Swift (<em>Apus apus pekinensis</em>) is a special bird. I remember Australian evolutionary biologist, Tim Flannery, saying that the swift is at the vanguard of evolution, the species that is closest to conquering the air. There are species that have their whole life cycle in the ocean and on land but no species, yet, has its whole life cycle in the air. The swift, landing only to lay its eggs and feed its young, is pushing the boundaries and it is possible to envisage a world in which, eventually, the swift will evolve to give birth to live young on the wing that can immediately fly and support themselves.</p>
<p>On 7 June, appropriately World Swift Day, international cooperation on the Beijing Swift formally resumed, with the fitting of 41 new, state of the art, loggers to birds at the Summer Palace involving a team from China and Belgium. These loggers will provide rich data about the migration and foraging patterns of these unique birds that spend only three months on the breeding grounds in Beijing, before heading on a c30,000km round trip to southern Africa. Some of the new loggers include accelerometers that will tell us whether these birds – that eat, drink and sleep in the air – make that journey to Africa and back without landing, as many suspect.</p>
<figure id="attachment_65227" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65227" style="width: 4032px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="65227" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/06/14/international-cooperation-on-beijing-swift-resumes-at-the-summer-palace/img_7905/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7905.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&ssl=1" data-orig-size="4032,3024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="IMG_7905" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7905.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7905.jpg?fit=660%2C495&ssl=1" class="wp-image-65227 size-full" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7905.jpg?resize=660%2C495&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="495" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7905.jpg?w=4032&ssl=1 4032w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7905.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7905.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7905.jpg?resize=150%2C113&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7905.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7905.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7905.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7905.jpg?resize=363%2C272&ssl=1 363w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7905.jpg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7905.jpg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65227" class="wp-caption-text">The KuoRu Pavilian at the Summer Palace at 2am, as preparations began for the day’s banding.</figcaption></figure>
<p>The catch at the Summer Palace, coordinated by the China Birdwatching Society, the Beijing Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center and the Beijing Municipal Academy of Forestry and Landscaping, was joined by UK-Belgian swift expert and veteran bird bander, Lyndon Kearsley.</p>
<figure id="attachment_65245" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65245" style="width: 1048px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="65245" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/06/14/international-cooperation-on-beijing-swift-resumes-at-the-summer-palace/640-3/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-3.jpeg?fit=1048%2C1375&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1048,1375" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="640 (3)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-3.jpeg?fit=229%2C300&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-3.jpeg?fit=660%2C866&ssl=1" class="wp-image-65245 size-full" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-3.jpeg?resize=660%2C866&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="866" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-3.jpeg?w=1048&ssl=1 1048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-3.jpeg?resize=229%2C300&ssl=1 229w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-3.jpeg?resize=780%2C1024&ssl=1 780w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-3.jpeg?resize=114%2C150&ssl=1 114w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-3.jpeg?resize=768%2C1008&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-3.jpeg?resize=207%2C272&ssl=1 207w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65245" class="wp-caption-text">Lyndon retrieving a swift from the special net, assisted by one of the young volunteers.</figcaption></figure>
<p>The banding at the Summer Palace was the culmination of a week-long programme of engagement by a visiting Belgian delegation involving Lyndon and Martine Wauters, founder of Swifts Without Frontiers and creator of World Swift Day. The project, spearheaded by the Belgian Ambassador to China (and lifelong swift fan), Bruno Angelet, will run for three years with the aim of discovering more about the ecology of the Beijing Swift, including both during the breeding season in Beijing and during the non-breeding season in Africa. After the initial fitting of the loggers at the Summer Palace, the plan is to return next year to retrieve the data and, at the same time, involve African scientists from Botswana, Namibia and South Africa (the core wintering range). The scientific knowledge gained from the new loggers will not only help to inform actions to support swift conservation across its range but will also create the foundation for greater people to people connections, including schools and conservation organisations, in Beijing and southwest Africa.</p>
<figure id="attachment_65247" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65247" style="width: 1080px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="65247" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/06/14/international-cooperation-on-beijing-swift-resumes-at-the-summer-palace/640-1/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-1.jpeg?fit=1080%2C768&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1080,768" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="640 (1)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-1.jpeg?fit=300%2C213&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-1.jpeg?fit=660%2C469&ssl=1" class="wp-image-65247 size-full" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-1.jpeg?resize=660%2C469&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="469" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-1.jpeg?w=1080&ssl=1 1080w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C213&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-1.jpeg?resize=1024%2C728&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-1.jpeg?resize=150%2C107&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C546&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-1.jpeg?resize=383%2C272&ssl=1 383w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65247" class="wp-caption-text">Belgian Swift fanatic and founder of World Swift Day, Martine Wauters, with Jane Goodall.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Lyndon and Martine began their week in Beijing with a visit to the Beijing Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center (the bird banding authority), after which a day-long symposium on the Beijing Swift was held, involving senior government officials, scientists and civil society organisations. </p>
<figure id="attachment_65246" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65246" style="width: 1080px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="65246" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/06/14/international-cooperation-on-beijing-swift-resumes-at-the-summer-palace/640-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-2.jpeg?fit=1080%2C811&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1080,811" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="640 (2)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-2.jpeg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-2.jpeg?fit=660%2C496&ssl=1" class="wp-image-65246 size-full" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-2.jpeg?resize=660%2C496&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="496" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-2.jpeg?w=1080&ssl=1 1080w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-2.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-2.jpeg?resize=1024%2C769&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-2.jpeg?resize=150%2C113&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-2.jpeg?resize=768%2C577&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-2.jpeg?resize=362%2C272&ssl=1 362w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65246" class="wp-caption-text">The International Symposium on the Beijing Swift, involving government, schools, NGOs and scientists, heard a dedicated message from Jane Goodall about the Beijing Swift project.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Field visits to Yeyahu and Miyun Reservoir were followed by a training session for volunteers from the China Birdwatching Society, hosted by the Belgian Embassy, on how to fit the loggers.</p>
<figure id="attachment_65253" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65253" style="width: 1080px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="65253" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/06/14/international-cooperation-on-beijing-swift-resumes-at-the-summer-palace/640-5-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-5.jpeg?fit=1080%2C721&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1080,721" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="640 (5)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-5.jpeg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-5.jpeg?fit=660%2C441&ssl=1" class="wp-image-65253 size-full" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-5.jpeg?resize=660%2C441&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="441" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-5.jpeg?w=1080&ssl=1 1080w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-5.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-5.jpeg?resize=1024%2C684&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-5.jpeg?resize=150%2C100&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-5.jpeg?resize=768%2C513&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-5.jpeg?resize=407%2C272&ssl=1 407w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65253" class="wp-caption-text">Lyndon Kearsley explaining to volunteers how to fit the loggers, using a life size model of a Beijing Swift, at a special training session at the Belgian Embassy. Photo by Zhao Xinru.</figcaption></figure>
<p>The Belgium-China cooperation on this project is being implemented under the auspices of the <a href="https://wildbeijing.org/the-ambassadors-for-nature-initiative/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ambassadors for Nature</a> initiative. It is a wonderful example of how countries can work together to support biodiversity conservation. It recognises that to conserve migratory species, there is a need to understand the ecology and to protect habitats not only on the breeding grounds, but also at the non-breeding grounds and important stopover habitats along the way. And, at the same time, involve more people to raise awareness of the incredible wildlife we have all around us, even in major cities, thus building support for policies and measures to protect it.</p>
<p>This project builds on the international cooperation on the Beijing Swift that took place from 2014-2017 which, thanks to new technology, discovered for the first time the incredible migration route from Beijing to southern Africa.</p>
<p>Huge kudos to H.E. Bruno Angelet, the Belgian Ambassador to China, for his enthusiasm, determination and leadership to make this happen. It is exceptional for a senior diplomat to put such energy into a project about nature, and I am sure that it will inspire others to follow. He was supported by a wonderful team at the embassy that crossed political, communications and logistics teams. </p>
<figure id="attachment_65254" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65254" style="width: 1080px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="65254" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/06/14/international-cooperation-on-beijing-swift-resumes-at-the-summer-palace/640-6/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-6.jpeg?fit=1080%2C745&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1080,745" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="640 (6)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-6.jpeg?fit=300%2C207&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-6.jpeg?fit=660%2C455&ssl=1" class="wp-image-65254 size-full" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-6.jpeg?resize=660%2C455&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="455" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-6.jpeg?w=1080&ssl=1 1080w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-6.jpeg?resize=300%2C207&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-6.jpeg?resize=1024%2C706&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-6.jpeg?resize=150%2C103&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-6.jpeg?resize=768%2C530&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/640-6.jpeg?resize=394%2C272&ssl=1 394w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65254" class="wp-caption-text">H.E. Bruno Angelet, Belgian Ambassador to China, with Professor Zhao Xinru at the Summer Palace. Photo by Gao Jingxin.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Huge thanks also to the Beijing Forest and Parks Bureau, the Beijing Municipal Academy for Forestry and Landscape, the Beijing Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center and, of course, the China Birdwatching Society, including the legendary Professor Zhao Xinru and his team of volunteers.</p>
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<p>You can hear Jane Goodall’s special message for the Beijing Swift Project below:</p>
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<p>One of the scarcest native amphibians in Beijing is the <strong>Mongolian Toad</strong> (<em>Strauchbufo raddei</em> 花背蟾蜍 Huā bèi chán chú). In other parts of the range, it is sometimes known as the <strong>P</strong><b>iebald Toad</b> or the <b>Siberian Sand Toad.</b> It is found in North China, Mongolia, Far Eastern Russia and North Korea. The scientific name <em>raddei</em>, is in honour of German naturalist Gustav Radde.</p>
<p>As far as I am aware, in Beijing it has been recorded only in the far northwest, around Guanting Reservoir. I saw my first a couple of years ago at the Kangxi Grassland, adjacent to the reservoir. During my visits this spring to ShaCheng Wetlands, on the western side of Guanting Reservoir and over the border in Hebei Province, it was a species that I had hoped to encounter. I have been lucky to see several and have heard a few calling amongst the ubiquitous Dark-spotted Frogs (<em>Pelophylax nigromaculatus</em> ⿊斑侧褶蛙 Hēi bān cè zhě wā). Last weekend, I heard a few calling as I drove along a track at dusk in perfectly still conditions, providing a fabulous opportunity to record the voice.</p>
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<p>The ‘call’ of the Mongolian Toad, May 2025</p>
<p>The northernmost known population is found on Olkhon Island in Lake Baikal. Apparently it hibernates in burrows, often communally. If you ever find yourself in an area with sandy soil and some wet grass or puddles/dykes and hear the croaking of a toad, it could be this guy!</p>
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<p>Title image: a Mongolian Toad photographed at night with assistance from the car headlights, May 2025 (Terry Townshend)</p>
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<p>Early to mid-May sees peak passage of Bluethroat (<em>Luscinia svecica</em> 蓝喉歌鸲 Lán hóu gē qú) through Beijing. In suitable habitat it’s not unusual to see multiple birds at a single site during this time. On 6 May I visited ShaCheng wetlands, west of Guanting Reservoir, just over the border in Hebei Province. That morning, in one 500m stretch of reedbed and wet grassland, there were over 20 Bluethroats, the majority males, with a few singing. </p>
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<p>One of the male Bluethroats (<em>Luscinia svecica</em> 蓝喉歌鸲 Lán hóu gē qú) at ShaCheng Wetlands, Hebei Province, on 6 May 2025.</p>
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<p>It’s a long time since I have heard a Bluethroat singing and I was immediately struck by the incredible mimicry. Several times I thought I had heard a Spotted Redshank (<em>Tringa erythropus</em> 鹤鹬 Hè yù) and looked around frantically to see it only to realise it was a Bluethroat! I began to listen carefully to one male that was singing close by and logged the mimicry of other species I could recognise:</p>
<p>Spotted Redshank (<em>Tringa erythropus</em> 鹤鹬 Hè yù)</p>
<p>Common Tern (<em>Sterna hirundo</em> 普通燕鸥 Pǔ tōng yàn ōu)</p>
<p>Zitting Cisticola (<em>Cisticola juncidis</em> 棕扇尾莺 Zōng shàn wěi yīng)</p>
<p>Ashy Minivet (<em>Pericrocotus divaricatus</em> 灰山椒鸟 Huī shān jiāo niǎo)</p>
<p>Arctic Warbler (Phylloscopus borealis 极北柳莺 Jí běi liǔ yīng)</p>
<p>Eastern Yellow Wagtail (<em>Motacilla tschutschensis</em> 黄鹡鸰 Huáng jí líng)</p>
<p>White Wagtail (<em>Motacilla alba</em> 白鹡鸰 Bái jí líng)</p>
<p>Oriental Greenfinch (<em>Carduelis sinica</em> 金翅雀 Jīn chì què)</p>
<p>Brambling (<em>Fringilla montifringilla</em> 燕雀 Yàn què)</p>
<p>I am sure there were more!</p>
<p>I recorded a few minutes of song – three bursts of around four minutes in total (with a background chorus of Dark-spotted Frogs) – have a listen and let me know what species you can hear!</p>
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<p>In Bent, A. C. (1949)’s “Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies”, published in the U. S. National Museum Bulletin 196, the species account for Bluethroat reads: “The delightful song of the bluethroat has charmed all naturalists who have heard it in its northern haunts and has earned for it among the Lapps of its native country a name meaning “a hundred tongues.”</p>
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<p>Header image: a singing male Bluethroat (<em>Luscinia svecica</em> 蓝喉歌鸲 Lán hóu gē qú) at ShaCheng Wetlands, Hebei Province, 6 May 2025.</p>
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<p>The most recent confirmed Beijing sighting of the North China Leopard (<em>Panthera pardus japonensis</em>), a subspecies of leopard endemic to China, was in the 1970s. A combination of persecution, habitat loss and hunting of the leopard’s prey meant that this magnificent animal was forced to retreat to its stronghold deep in the inaccessible Taihang mountains of Shanxi Province. </p>
<p>For some time there has been a dream to ‘bring home the leopard’ to Beijing and, following greater protection and awareness, habitat restoration and the recovery of populations of prey species, such as Siberian Roe Deer (<em>Capreolus pygargus</em>) and Wild Boar (<em>Sus scrofa</em>), it seems that this dream now seems to be a genuine possibility and most conservationists say it is a matter of when, and not if, the North China Leopard will again be recorded in the capital.</p>
<p>At the end of April, to help accelerate the leopard’s return, a collaborative conservation project titled “Oaks for Leopards” was launched in Beijing. The capital is joining forces with Hebei and Shanxi provinces to restore habitat and provide greater protection for the wilderness of North China, with a view to providing food and habitat for the endangered North China leopard. </p>
<p>The project is jointly initiated by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, the Chinese Society of Forestry, the Beijing Forestry and Parks Bureau, and the forestry and grassland authorities of Hebei and Shanxi. </p>
<p>The article below appeared in the China Daily on 30 April. </p>
<p>I suspect that the first modern record of leopard in Beijing will be a roaming young male looking for a territory and it may take many more years to establish a viable population. </p>
<p>It’s refreshing to see a positive attitude towards the potential return of an apex predator and it will be fascinating to see how the public reacts if and when this magnificent animal reappears in China’s capital. </p>
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<p>It’s heartwarming to be able to report some good news about a critically endangered species! On 19th April 2025, the National Forest and Grassland Administration (NFGA) published the results of the first comprehensive and synchronous winter survey of Baer’s Pochard (<em>Aythya baeri </em>青头潜鸭 Qīng tóu qián yā) in China. </p>
<p>The survey, undertaken by recorded that the population of the Baer’s Pochard in China reached 2,555, a significant increase from the approximately 1,000 reported in 2012.</p>
<p>The survey was led and organized by the China Baer’s Pochard Conservation and Monitoring Working Group at Beijing Forestry University, under the guidance of NFGA, and involved over 400 individual surveyors at 212 sites in 21 Provinces that hold wintering populations of this species.</p>
<p>According to Professor Ding Changqing, Chair of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership and the China Baer’s Pochard Task Force, this is the first comprehensive wintering population census of Baer’s Pochard based and provides a strong scientific basis for formulating targeted conservation measures. It also provides important data support for the IUCN Red List to update the global population change trend.</p>
<p>Among the sites covered by the survey, there are 16 sites with a population of over 30 individuals (see Table 1 below), involving a total of 2,136 individuals, accounting for 83.6% of the total. Monitoring and protection of these sites must be a priority. Among the wintering habitats, freshwater lakes dominate, accounting for 71.51% of all habitats, followed by rivers and ponds. The investigation also discovered that wintering Baer’s Pochard prefer small abandoned fish ponds and medium to small-sized lakes with rich vegetation.</p>
<p><strong>Table 1: the most important wintering sites for Baer’s Pochard in China.</strong></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><b>Province</b></span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><b>Site name and location</b></span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Shandong</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Dongping lake, Taian</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Jiangxi</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">East lake, Jiujiang</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Henan</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Minquan Ancient Yellow-river National Wetland Park</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Shandong</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">South Four Lake Provincial Nature Reserve, Jining</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">5</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Hebei</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Baiyangdian wetland, Xiongan New District</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">6</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Hubei</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Fuhe wetland, Wuhan</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">7</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Anhui</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Jiaogang Wetland Park, Huainan</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">8</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Hubei</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Baoxiehu park, Wuhan</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">9</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Hubei</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Honghu Wetland National Nature Reserve</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">10</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Hubei</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Fanwan Lake National Wetland Park</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">11</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Hebei</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Hengshui Lake National Nature Reserve</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">12</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Jiangsu</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Feng County Ancient Yellow-river National Wetland Park</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">13</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Anhui</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Huangpi Lake, Hefei</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">14</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Hubei</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Jijia Lake Wetland Park, Dangyang</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">15</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Shandong</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Coal mining subsidence wetland, Jining</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">16</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Hubei</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Liangzi Lake Provincial Nature Reserve</span></p>
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</table>
<p>Source: Baer’s Pochard Task Force, EAAFP</p>
<p>The results of this survey are a key milestone in the protection of Baer’s Pochard in China and build on the work over the last ten years. It was in 2016 that NFGA invited Beijing Forestry University to establish the “China Baer’s Pochard Protection and Monitoring Working Group”, with the responsibility for organising and coordinating the protection and monitoring the species in China. In recent years, the group has been engaged in ecological research on the Baer’s Pochard, established a national conservation and monitoring network, hosted international conferences, compiled the “National Baer’s Pochard Conservation Action Plan”, and collaborated with Beijing Zoo to establish China’s first ex-situ breeding population. Based on the research results, habitat restoration has been carried out in several important distribution areas in China, including at Hengshui Hu in Hebei Province.</p>
<p>It was back in 2018 that I participated in an <a href="https://wildbeijing.org/2018/03/22/baers-pochard-the-hengshui-declaration/">international meeting on Baer’s Pochard at Hengshui Lake in Hebei Province</a>, working alongside the late Rich Hearn of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and Coordinator of the Baer’s Pochard Task Force. I can’t help thinking Rich would have been over the moon to see the progress on protecting Baer’s Pochard in China since that meeting, and I can think of no better tribute to Rich’s lifelong dedication to waterbirds than seeing Baer’s Pochard come back from the brink. Of course, the future of this species is far from certain but these survey results are hugely encouraging and demonstrate that, with coordination, the involvement of key stakeholders sprinkled with energy and passion, conservation works! </p>
<p>Thank you to Professor Ding Changqing of Beijing Forestry University for providing a summary of the recent survey and for his incredible efforts as Chair of the Baer’s Pochard Task Force to turn around the fortunes of Baer’s Pochard in China. And thank you to the hundreds of volunteers who dedicated time to look for and meticulously count these special waterbirds at wetland sites throughout China last winter.</p>
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<p>Title image: a female Baer’s Pochard (<em>Aythya baeri </em>青头潜鸭 Qīng tóu qián yā) at XiHai in Beijing in January 2025 (Terry Townshend)</p>
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<p>The <strong>Relict Gull</strong> (<em>Ichthyaetus relictus </em>遗鸥 Yí ōu) is an East Asian speciality. It is always one of the most anticipated spring migrants in Beijing as flocks, with most birds in striking breeding plumage, make their way from wintering grounds in the Bohai Bay to breeding grounds in N China, Mongolia, Russia and Central Asia. </p>
<p>Last week I was fortunate to encounter a flock of around 65 on the shores of Guanting Reservoir and they treated me to a spectacular show. Arriving in the mid-afternoon, they circled and called before settling to rest in a shallow pond, among Pied Avocets and Black-winged Stilts. </p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64588" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/04/15/relict-gulls-on-spring-migration/2025-04-10-relict-gulls-showing-variability-in-black-on-wing-tip-shacheng-hebei/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-showing-variability-in-black-on-wing-tip-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?fit=6036%2C4554&ssl=1" data-orig-size="6036,4554" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1744240969","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-04-10 Relict Gulls showing variability in black on wing tip, ShaCheng, Hebei","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-04-10 Relict Gulls showing variability in black on wing tip, ShaCheng, Hebei" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-showing-variability-in-black-on-wing-tip-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?fit=300%2C226&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-showing-variability-in-black-on-wing-tip-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?fit=660%2C498&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64588" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-showing-variability-in-black-on-wing-tip-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=660%2C498&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="498" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-showing-variability-in-black-on-wing-tip-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?w=6036&ssl=1 6036w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-showing-variability-in-black-on-wing-tip-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=300%2C226&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-showing-variability-in-black-on-wing-tip-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=1024%2C773&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-showing-variability-in-black-on-wing-tip-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=150%2C113&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-showing-variability-in-black-on-wing-tip-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=768%2C579&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-showing-variability-in-black-on-wing-tip-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1159&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-showing-variability-in-black-on-wing-tip-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1545&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-showing-variability-in-black-on-wing-tip-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=361%2C272&ssl=1 361w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-showing-variability-in-black-on-wing-tip-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-showing-variability-in-black-on-wing-tip-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>After a few minutes, several flew to an adjacent pond – no more than 50m away from my position – where muddy patches provided feeding opportunities. Here, a few started to display, throwing back their heads and almost sounding as if they were in pain!</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64590" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/04/15/relict-gulls-on-spring-migration/2025-04-10-relict-gulls-migrating-against-mountain-backdrop-shacheng-hebei/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-migrating-against-mountain-backdrop-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?fit=4648%2C2878&ssl=1" data-orig-size="4648,2878" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1744275235","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"500","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-04-10 Relict Gulls migrating against mountain backdrop, ShaCheng, Hebei","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-04-10 Relict Gulls migrating against mountain backdrop, ShaCheng, Hebei" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-migrating-against-mountain-backdrop-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?fit=300%2C186&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-migrating-against-mountain-backdrop-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?fit=660%2C409&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64590" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-migrating-against-mountain-backdrop-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=660%2C409&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="409" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-migrating-against-mountain-backdrop-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?w=4648&ssl=1 4648w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-migrating-against-mountain-backdrop-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=300%2C186&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-migrating-against-mountain-backdrop-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=1024%2C634&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-migrating-against-mountain-backdrop-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=150%2C93&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-migrating-against-mountain-backdrop-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=768%2C476&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-migrating-against-mountain-backdrop-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=1536%2C951&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-migrating-against-mountain-backdrop-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1268&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-migrating-against-mountain-backdrop-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=825%2C510&ssl=1 825w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-migrating-against-mountain-backdrop-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=439%2C272&ssl=1 439w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-migrating-against-mountain-backdrop-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gulls-migrating-against-mountain-backdrop-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64586" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/04/15/relict-gulls-on-spring-migration/2025-04-10-displaying-relict-gull-shacheng-hebei/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-displaying-Relict-Gull-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?fit=5964%2C2318&ssl=1" data-orig-size="5964,2318" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1744278461","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"640","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-04-10 displaying Relict Gull, ShaCheng, Hebei","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-04-10 displaying Relict Gull, ShaCheng, Hebei" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-displaying-Relict-Gull-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?fit=300%2C117&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-displaying-Relict-Gull-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?fit=660%2C257&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64586" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-displaying-Relict-Gull-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=660%2C257&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="257" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-displaying-Relict-Gull-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?w=5964&ssl=1 5964w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-displaying-Relict-Gull-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=300%2C117&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-displaying-Relict-Gull-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=1024%2C398&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-displaying-Relict-Gull-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=150%2C58&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-displaying-Relict-Gull-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=768%2C298&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-displaying-Relict-Gull-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=1536%2C597&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-displaying-Relict-Gull-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=2048%2C796&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-displaying-Relict-Gull-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=700%2C272&ssl=1 700w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-displaying-Relict-Gull-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-displaying-Relict-Gull-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>The recording below includes some courtship calls, followed by some flight calls.</p>
<audio class="wp-audio-shortcode" id="audio-64583-4" preload="none" style="width: 100%;" controls="controls"><source type="audio/mpeg" src="https://wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-1810-Relict-Gull-display-calls-and-flight-cals-ShaCheng-Hebei.mp3?_=4" /><a href="https://wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-1810-Relict-Gull-display-calls-and-flight-cals-ShaCheng-Hebei.mp3">https://wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-1810-Relict-Gull-display-calls-and-flight-cals-ShaCheng-Hebei.mp3</a></audio>
<p>It was an exhilarating experience to spend time with these birds at close quarters in perfect conditions as the wind died and the low sun against the mountains providing a stunning backdrop. Then, at dusk, the whole flock took to the air, calling incessantly as they circled up before heading high northwest. </p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64589" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/04/15/relict-gulls-on-spring-migration/2025-04-10-relict-gull-flock-in-flight-shacheng-hebei/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-flock-in-flight-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?fit=7971%2C3746&ssl=1" data-orig-size="7971,3746" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1744241026","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.0012499999720603","title":"2025-04-10 Relict Gull flock in flight, ShaCheng, Hebei","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-04-10 Relict Gull flock in flight, ShaCheng, Hebei" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-flock-in-flight-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?fit=300%2C141&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-flock-in-flight-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?fit=660%2C310&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64589" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-flock-in-flight-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=660%2C310&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="310" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-flock-in-flight-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?w=7971&ssl=1 7971w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-flock-in-flight-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=300%2C141&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-flock-in-flight-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=1024%2C481&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-flock-in-flight-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=150%2C70&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-flock-in-flight-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=768%2C361&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-flock-in-flight-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=1536%2C722&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-flock-in-flight-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=2048%2C962&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-flock-in-flight-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=579%2C272&ssl=1 579w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-flock-in-flight-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-flock-in-flight-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>One of the birds was wearing a transmitter and, after some inquiries (thanks to Professor Liu Yang), it was revealed that this individual was rescued and rehabilitated in Tianjin this winter and released with a tracking device to establish how it fared and to learn about its movements. It looked in good condition, was active and left with the main flock to the northeast at dusk, so it looks as if it is back to full health.</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64592" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/04/15/relict-gulls-on-spring-migration/2025-04-10-relict-gull-with-transmitter-shacheng-hebei/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-with-transmitter-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?fit=4455%2C2977&ssl=1" data-orig-size="4455,2977" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1744276747","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"450","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-04-10 Relict Gull with transmitter, ShaCheng, Hebei","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-04-10 Relict Gull with transmitter, ShaCheng, Hebei" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-with-transmitter-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-with-transmitter-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?fit=660%2C441&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64592" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-with-transmitter-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=660%2C441&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="441" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-with-transmitter-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?w=4455&ssl=1 4455w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-with-transmitter-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-with-transmitter-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=1024%2C684&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-with-transmitter-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=150%2C100&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-with-transmitter-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=768%2C513&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-with-transmitter-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1026&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-with-transmitter-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1369&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-with-transmitter-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?resize=407%2C272&ssl=1 407w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-with-transmitter-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-10-Relict-Gull-with-transmitter-ShaCheng-Hebei.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p><em>One of the Relict Gulls was carrying a transmitter. Inquiries revealed that it was rescued and released in Tianjin earlier this year. </em></p>
<p>It was a special experience to witness these East Asian gulls, albeit briefly, as they make their way to inland breeding grounds. The encounter inspired me to paint a loose watercolour. </p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64637" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/wildlife-watercolours/img_7486/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_7486.jpg?fit=5712%2C4284&ssl=1" data-orig-size="5712,4284" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.6","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 16","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1744728462","copyright":"","focal_length":"5.960000038147","iso":"125","shutter_speed":"0.015873015873016","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="IMG_7486" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_7486.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_7486.jpg?fit=660%2C495&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64637" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_7486.jpg?resize=660%2C495&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="495" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_7486.jpg?w=5712&ssl=1 5712w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_7486.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_7486.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_7486.jpg?resize=150%2C113&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_7486.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_7486.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_7486.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_7486.jpg?resize=363%2C272&ssl=1 363w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_7486.jpg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_7486.jpg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>Relict Gull is a species entirely dependent on the intertidal mudflats of the Yellow Sea, so it is vulnerable to coastal wetland reclamation and pollution. Thankfully, the most immediate threat of reclamation has been removed thanks to the ban on coastal wetland reclamation issued by the State Council in 2018 and the inscription of some of the most important coastal wetland sites as World Heritage Sites. However, its future is far from secure and will require continued efforts to protect the places it needs, including the wintering grounds in the Yellow Sea, breeding grounds inland and important stopover sites, such as Guanting Reservoir in Beijing. </p>
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<p>Title image: The Relict Gull with the transmitter flew in front of the moon as it left with its flock high to the northwest at dusk.</p>
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<p>This winter (2024-2025) is a poor one for some species we consider to be staple winter visitors in Beijing. Thrush numbers are well down, waxwings are scarce and there are almost no high-elevation redstarts in their usual mountain haunts. Certainly at Lingshan the sea buckthorn crop, which usually sustains good numbers of thrushes and redstarts, is the worst I have seen. Not only have few shrubs produced berries this year but those fruit that were gleaming orange at the beginning of autumn are now anaemic and shrivelled. This is most likely due to the fact that the autumn was wetter and milder than usual which seems to have resulted in most of the fruit succumbing to rot and fungi.</p>
<figure id="attachment_64021" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64021" style="width: 4032px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64021" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/img_6916/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_6916-e1739005639918.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&ssl=1" data-orig-size="4032,3024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 16","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1737641372","copyright":"","focal_length":"2.2200000286119","iso":"64","shutter_speed":"0.0022988505747126","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="IMG_6916" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_6916-e1739005639918.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_6916-e1739005639918.jpg?fit=660%2C495&ssl=1" class="wp-image-64021 size-full" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_6916-e1739005639918.jpg?resize=660%2C495&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="495" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_6916-e1739005639918.jpg?w=4032&ssl=1 4032w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_6916-e1739005639918.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_6916-e1739005639918.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_6916-e1739005639918.jpg?resize=150%2C113&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_6916-e1739005639918.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_6916-e1739005639918.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_6916-e1739005639918.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_6916-e1739005639918.jpg?resize=363%2C272&ssl=1 363w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_6916-e1739005639918.jpg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_6916-e1739005639918.jpg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64021" class="wp-caption-text">Sea buckthorn berries at Lingshan this winter (January 2025). Most seem to have rotted in the late autumn period, which was unusually mild and wet.</figcaption></figure>
<p>The best ‘thrush-watching’ this winter has been in the city parks, especially at drinking spots. Beijing is generally cold and very dry in winter, so after any juicy berries have been exhausted, winter birds tend to feed more on the drier fruits of cypress trees or similar, requiring them to drink frequently. Finding a spot close to a food source with running water and some cover is the best way to secure good views.</p>
<p>Of the four regular ‘winter thrushes’ in Beijing, Naumann’s (<em>Turdus naumanni</em> 红尾鸫 Hóng wěi dōng) is the most common in lowland Beijing, followed by Red-throated (<em>Turdus ruficollis</em> 赤颈鸫 Chì jǐng dōng), Dusky (<em>Turdus eunomus</em> 斑鸫 Bān dōng) and the scarce Black-throated (<em>Turdus atrogularis</em> 黑颈鸫 Hēi jǐng dōng) in order of abundance. In the mountains, the top two are reversed, with Red-throated the most abundant, followed by Naumann’s, Dusky and Black-throated.</p>
<p>This winter I have spent a bit of time at two regular spots for winter thrushes – Beihai Park and the Botanical Gardens. Although numbers have been relatively low, there has still been a reasonable variety, with some interesting mixes of genes on display. In Beijing it is common to see intergrades, most often between Naumann’s and Dusky and occasionally with the other species. However, as Beijing is a wintering area for these thrushes, we have no way of knowing the true parentage of any individual bird and thus we can only make educated guesses as to the origins based on visible plumage details.</p>
<p>Here are a few images, mostly from this winter, with some comments. As always, comments and corrections are welcome.</p>
<p>First up, some standard Naumann’s Thrushes (<em>Turdus naumanni</em> 红尾鸫 Hóng wěi dōng) </p>
<p><strong>Naumann’s Thrush <em>Turdus naumanni</em> 红尾鸫 Hóng wěi dōng</strong></p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64029" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-01-08-naumanns-thrush-adult-beihai11/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Beihai11.jpeg?fit=5107%2C3235&ssl=1" data-orig-size="5107,3235" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1736321455","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"640","shutter_speed":"0.00062499998603015","title":"2025-01-08 Naumann's Thrush adult, Beihai11","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-01-08 Naumann’s Thrush adult, Beihai11" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Beihai11.jpeg?fit=300%2C190&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Beihai11.jpeg?fit=660%2C418&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64029" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Beihai11.jpeg?resize=660%2C418&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="418" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Beihai11.jpeg?w=5107&ssl=1 5107w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Beihai11.jpeg?resize=300%2C190&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Beihai11.jpeg?resize=1024%2C649&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Beihai11.jpeg?resize=150%2C95&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Beihai11.jpeg?resize=768%2C486&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Beihai11.jpeg?resize=1536%2C973&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Beihai11.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1297&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Beihai11.jpeg?resize=429%2C272&ssl=1 429w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Beihai11.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Beihai11.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>8 January 2025, Beihai Park</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64026" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-01-28-naumanns-thrush-adult-botanical-gardens/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=4552%2C2797&ssl=1" data-orig-size="4552,2797" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1738042546","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"1100","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-01-28 Naumann's Thrush adult, Botanical Gardens","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-01-28 Naumann’s Thrush adult, Botanical Gardens" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=300%2C184&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=660%2C405&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64026" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=660%2C406&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="406" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=4552&ssl=1 4552w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=300%2C184&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1024%2C629&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=150%2C92&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=768%2C472&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1536%2C944&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1258&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=443%2C272&ssl=1 443w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Naumanns-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>28 January 2025, Botanical Gardens</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64088" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-01-28-squabbling-2cy-and-adult-naumanns-thrushes-botanical-gardens/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-squabbling-2cy-and-adult-Naumanns-Thrushes-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=5199%2C3617&ssl=1" data-orig-size="5199,3617" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1738042539","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"1100","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-01-28 squabbling 2cy and adult Naumann's Thrushes, Botanical Gardens","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-01-28 squabbling 2cy and adult Naumann’s Thrushes, Botanical Gardens" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-squabbling-2cy-and-adult-Naumanns-Thrushes-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=300%2C209&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-squabbling-2cy-and-adult-Naumanns-Thrushes-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=660%2C459&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64088" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-squabbling-2cy-and-adult-Naumanns-Thrushes-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=660%2C459&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="459" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-squabbling-2cy-and-adult-Naumanns-Thrushes-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=5199&ssl=1 5199w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-squabbling-2cy-and-adult-Naumanns-Thrushes-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=300%2C209&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-squabbling-2cy-and-adult-Naumanns-Thrushes-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1024%2C712&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-squabbling-2cy-and-adult-Naumanns-Thrushes-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=150%2C104&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-squabbling-2cy-and-adult-Naumanns-Thrushes-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=768%2C534&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-squabbling-2cy-and-adult-Naumanns-Thrushes-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1069&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-squabbling-2cy-and-adult-Naumanns-Thrushes-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1425&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-squabbling-2cy-and-adult-Naumanns-Thrushes-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=391%2C272&ssl=1 391w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-squabbling-2cy-and-adult-Naumanns-Thrushes-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-squabbling-2cy-and-adult-Naumanns-Thrushes-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>28 January 2025, Botanical Gardens</p>
<p>These birds show the classic strongly marked underparts, including undertail coverts and golden-orange fringes to the wing coverts and mantle. I speculate that the bird in the second image is likely a female based on off-white supercilium and dark spotting on throat sides.</p>
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<p><strong>Red-throated Thrush <em>Turdus ruficollis</em> 赤颈鸫 Chì jǐng dōng</strong></p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64036" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-01-28-red-throated-thrush-adult-botanical-gardens/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?fit=5622%2C3812&ssl=1" data-orig-size="5622,3812" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1738043746","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"1100","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-01-28 Red-throated Thrush adult, Botanical Gardens","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-01-28 Red-throated Thrush adult, Botanical Gardens" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?fit=300%2C203&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?fit=660%2C447&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64036" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?resize=660%2C448&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="448" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?w=5622&ssl=1 5622w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C203&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?resize=1024%2C694&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?resize=150%2C102&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C521&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1041&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1389&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?resize=401%2C272&ssl=1 401w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>28 January 2025, Botanical Gardens</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64038" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-01-08-red-throated-thrush-adult-perched-beihai/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-perched-Beihai.jpeg?fit=4554%2C3141&ssl=1" data-orig-size="4554,3141" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1736321692","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"1250","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-01-08 Red-throated Thrush adult perched, Beihai","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-01-08 Red-throated Thrush adult perched, Beihai" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-perched-Beihai.jpeg?fit=300%2C207&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-perched-Beihai.jpeg?fit=660%2C455&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64038" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-perched-Beihai.jpeg?resize=660%2C455&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="455" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-perched-Beihai.jpeg?w=4554&ssl=1 4554w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-perched-Beihai.jpeg?resize=300%2C207&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-perched-Beihai.jpeg?resize=1024%2C706&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-perched-Beihai.jpeg?resize=150%2C103&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-perched-Beihai.jpeg?resize=768%2C530&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-perched-Beihai.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1059&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-perched-Beihai.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1413&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-perched-Beihai.jpeg?resize=394%2C272&ssl=1 394w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-perched-Beihai.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-perched-Beihai.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>8 January 2025, Beihai Park</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64037" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-01-08-red-throated-thrush-adult-at-pond-beihai/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-at-pond-Beihai.jpeg?fit=5377%2C3664&ssl=1" data-orig-size="5377,3664" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1736321771","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"640","shutter_speed":"0.00062499998603015","title":"2025-01-08 Red-throated Thrush adult at pond, Beihai","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-01-08 Red-throated Thrush adult at pond, Beihai" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-at-pond-Beihai.jpeg?fit=300%2C204&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-at-pond-Beihai.jpeg?fit=660%2C450&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64037" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-at-pond-Beihai.jpeg?resize=660%2C450&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="450" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-at-pond-Beihai.jpeg?w=5377&ssl=1 5377w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-at-pond-Beihai.jpeg?resize=300%2C204&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-at-pond-Beihai.jpeg?resize=1024%2C698&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-at-pond-Beihai.jpeg?resize=150%2C102&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-at-pond-Beihai.jpeg?resize=768%2C523&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-at-pond-Beihai.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1047&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-at-pond-Beihai.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1396&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-at-pond-Beihai.jpeg?resize=399%2C272&ssl=1 399w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-at-pond-Beihai.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Red-throated-Thrush-adult-at-pond-Beihai.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>8 January 2025, Beihai Park</p>
<p>Note the much plainer upperparts, lacking the golden fringes, plainer face and relatively plain underparts, including the undertail coverts. </p>
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<p><strong>Dusky Thrush <em>Turdus eunomus</em> 斑鸫 Bān dōng</strong></p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64042" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2024-02-28-dusky-thrush-choshi_124/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2024-02-28-Dusky-Thrush-Choshi_124.jpg?fit=5318%2C3211&ssl=1" data-orig-size="5318,3211" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"7.1","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1709132941","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"1000","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2024-02-28 Dusky Thrush, Choshi_124" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2024-02-28-Dusky-Thrush-Choshi_124.jpg?fit=300%2C181&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2024-02-28-Dusky-Thrush-Choshi_124.jpg?fit=660%2C398&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64042" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2024-02-28-Dusky-Thrush-Choshi_124.jpg?resize=660%2C399&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="399" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2024-02-28-Dusky-Thrush-Choshi_124.jpg?w=5318&ssl=1 5318w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2024-02-28-Dusky-Thrush-Choshi_124.jpg?resize=300%2C181&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2024-02-28-Dusky-Thrush-Choshi_124.jpg?resize=1024%2C618&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2024-02-28-Dusky-Thrush-Choshi_124.jpg?resize=150%2C91&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2024-02-28-Dusky-Thrush-Choshi_124.jpg?resize=768%2C464&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2024-02-28-Dusky-Thrush-Choshi_124.jpg?resize=1536%2C927&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2024-02-28-Dusky-Thrush-Choshi_124.jpg?resize=2048%2C1237&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2024-02-28-Dusky-Thrush-Choshi_124.jpg?resize=450%2C272&ssl=1 450w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2024-02-28-Dusky-Thrush-Choshi_124.jpg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2024-02-28-Dusky-Thrush-Choshi_124.jpg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>8 January 2025, Beihai Park</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64041" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-01-08-dusky-thrush-beihai2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai2.jpeg?fit=4706%2C3309&ssl=1" data-orig-size="4706,3309" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1736317814","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"640","shutter_speed":"0.00062499998603015","title":"2025-01-08 Dusky Thrush, Beihai2","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-01-08 Dusky Thrush, Beihai2" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai2.jpeg?fit=300%2C211&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai2.jpeg?fit=660%2C464&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64041" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai2.jpeg?resize=660%2C464&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="464" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai2.jpeg?w=4706&ssl=1 4706w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai2.jpeg?resize=300%2C211&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai2.jpeg?resize=1024%2C720&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai2.jpeg?resize=150%2C105&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai2.jpeg?resize=768%2C540&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai2.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1080&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai2.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1440&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai2.jpeg?resize=387%2C272&ssl=1 387w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai2.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai2.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" />8 January 2025, Beihai Park</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64040" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-01-08-dusky-thrush-beihai/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai.jpeg?fit=4261%2C2778&ssl=1" data-orig-size="4261,2778" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1736317787","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"1000","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-01-08 Dusky Thrush, Beihai","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-01-08 Dusky Thrush, Beihai" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai.jpeg?fit=300%2C196&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai.jpeg?fit=660%2C431&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64040" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai.jpeg?resize=660%2C430&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="430" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai.jpeg?w=4261&ssl=1 4261w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai.jpeg?resize=300%2C196&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai.jpeg?resize=1024%2C668&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai.jpeg?resize=150%2C98&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai.jpeg?resize=768%2C501&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1001&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1335&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai.jpeg?resize=417%2C272&ssl=1 417w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Dusky-Thrush-Beihai.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" />8 January 2025, Beihai Park</p>
<p>Note black crescents on the underparts, as well as rufous on the wings, dark tail and broad, long white supercilium.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Black-throated Thrush <em>Turdus atrogularis</em> 黑颈鸫 Hēi jǐng dōng</strong></p>
<p>I have very few images of Black-throated Thrush <em>Turdus atrogularis</em> 黑颈鸫 Hēi jǐng dōng from Beijing, reflecting the relative scarcity of this species in the capital. </p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64080" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2013-12-30-black-throated-thrush-adult-peking-university/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2013-12-30-Black-throated-Thrush-adult-Peking-University.jpg?fit=1200%2C923&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1200,923" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1388415293","copyright":"","focal_length":"400","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.0025","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2013-12-30 Black-throated Thrush adult, Peking University" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2013-12-30-Black-throated-Thrush-adult-Peking-University.jpg?fit=300%2C231&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2013-12-30-Black-throated-Thrush-adult-Peking-University.jpg?fit=660%2C508&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64080" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2013-12-30-Black-throated-Thrush-adult-Peking-University.jpg?resize=660%2C508&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="508" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2013-12-30-Black-throated-Thrush-adult-Peking-University.jpg?w=1200&ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2013-12-30-Black-throated-Thrush-adult-Peking-University.jpg?resize=300%2C231&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2013-12-30-Black-throated-Thrush-adult-Peking-University.jpg?resize=1024%2C788&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2013-12-30-Black-throated-Thrush-adult-Peking-University.jpg?resize=150%2C115&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2013-12-30-Black-throated-Thrush-adult-Peking-University.jpg?resize=768%2C591&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2013-12-30-Black-throated-Thrush-adult-Peking-University.jpg?resize=354%2C272&ssl=1 354w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>This one from Peking University campus in January 2013.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Intergrades</strong></p>
<p>The following images are of birds that show signs of intergradation. I have added some comments to each and welcome opinions.</p>
<p><strong>Dusky x Naumann’s</strong></p>
<p>By far the most common intergrade in Beijing.</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64063" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-01-08-prob-dusky-thrush-x-naumanns-thrush-intergrade-beihai/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Prob-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Beihai.jpeg?fit=4028%2C2551&ssl=1" data-orig-size="4028,2551" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1736317877","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"640","shutter_speed":"0.00062499998603015","title":"2025-01-08 Prob Dusky Thrush x Naumann's Thrush intergrade, Beihai","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-01-08 Prob Dusky Thrush x Naumann’s Thrush intergrade, Beihai" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Prob-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Beihai.jpeg?fit=300%2C190&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Prob-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Beihai.jpeg?fit=660%2C418&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64063" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Prob-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Beihai.jpeg?resize=660%2C418&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="418" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Prob-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Beihai.jpeg?w=4028&ssl=1 4028w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Prob-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Beihai.jpeg?resize=300%2C190&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Prob-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Beihai.jpeg?resize=1024%2C649&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Prob-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Beihai.jpeg?resize=150%2C95&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Prob-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Beihai.jpeg?resize=768%2C486&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Prob-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Beihai.jpeg?resize=1536%2C973&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Prob-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Beihai.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1297&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Prob-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Beihai.jpeg?resize=429%2C272&ssl=1 429w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Prob-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Beihai.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-08-Prob-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Beihai.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>8 January 2025, Beihai Park</p>
<p>This bird is presumably a Dusky x Naumann’s intergrade, showing a mixture of blackish and reddish underpart markings, a long, broad dusky-like supercilium and Naumann’s-like mantle and scapulars.</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64062" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-01-28-dusky-x-naumanns-thrush-intergrade-botanical-gardens/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=3612%2C2279&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3612,2279" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1738042465","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"1400","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-01-28 Dusky x Naumann's Thrush intergrade, Botanical Gardens","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-01-28 Dusky x Naumann’s Thrush intergrade, Botanical Gardens" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=300%2C189&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=660%2C416&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64062" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=660%2C416&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="416" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=3612&ssl=1 3612w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=300%2C189&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1024%2C646&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=150%2C95&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=768%2C485&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1536%2C969&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1292&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=431%2C272&ssl=1 431w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>28 January 2025, Botanical Gardens</p>
<p>This bird looks Dusky-like on first glance but on closer inspection shows prominent reddish markings on the underparts and undertail coverts, most likely evidence of some Naumann’s genes.</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64059" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-01-28-two-dusky-thrush-x-naumanns-thrush-intergrades-botanical-gardens/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=6081%2C4593&ssl=1" data-orig-size="6081,4593" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1738044150","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"1400","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-01-28 two Dusky Thrush x Naumann's Thrush intergrades, Botanical Gardens","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-01-28 two Dusky Thrush x Naumann’s Thrush intergrades, Botanical Gardens" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=300%2C227&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=660%2C498&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64059" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=660%2C499&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="499" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=6081&ssl=1 6081w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=300%2C227&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1024%2C773&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=150%2C113&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=768%2C580&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1160&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1547&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=360%2C272&ssl=1 360w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>5 February 2025, Botanical Gardens</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64060" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-01-28-two-dusky-thrush-x-naumanns-thrush-intergrades-showing-reddish-undertail-coverts-botanical-gardens/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-showing-reddish-undertail-coverts-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=5491%2C3566&ssl=1" data-orig-size="5491,3566" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1738044151","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"1400","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-01-28 two Dusky Thrush x Naumann's Thrush intergrades showing reddish undertail coverts, Botanical Gardens","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-01-28 two Dusky Thrush x Naumann’s Thrush intergrades showing reddish undertail coverts, Botanical Gardens" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-showing-reddish-undertail-coverts-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=300%2C195&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-showing-reddish-undertail-coverts-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=660%2C429&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64060" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-showing-reddish-undertail-coverts-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=660%2C429&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="429" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-showing-reddish-undertail-coverts-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=5491&ssl=1 5491w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-showing-reddish-undertail-coverts-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=300%2C195&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-showing-reddish-undertail-coverts-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1024%2C665&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-showing-reddish-undertail-coverts-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=150%2C97&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-showing-reddish-undertail-coverts-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=768%2C499&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-showing-reddish-undertail-coverts-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1536%2C998&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-showing-reddish-undertail-coverts-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1330&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-showing-reddish-undertail-coverts-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=419%2C272&ssl=1 419w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-showing-reddish-undertail-coverts-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-two-Dusky-Thrush-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrades-showing-reddish-undertail-coverts-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>5 February 2025, Botanical Gardens</p>
<p>The two above could easily pass for Dusky Thrushes on first glance but, again, close inspection in particular of the second image, reveals reddish markings on the undertail coverts.</p>
<p><strong>Black-throated x Red-throated</strong></p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64075" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-02-05-presumed-black-throated-x-red-throated-thrush-intergrade-adult-botanical-gardens/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=4680%2C3185&ssl=1" data-orig-size="4680,3185" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1738737852","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"3200","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-02-05 presumed Black-throated x Red-throated Thrush intergrade adult, Botanical Gardens","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-02-05 presumed Black-throated x Red-throated Thrush intergrade adult, Botanical Gardens" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=300%2C204&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=660%2C449&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64075" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=660%2C449&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="449" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=4680&ssl=1 4680w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=300%2C204&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1024%2C697&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=150%2C102&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=768%2C523&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1045&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1394&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=400%2C272&ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-adult-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>5 February 2025, Botanical Gardens</p>
<p>With a mixture of red and black feathers on the upper breast, this is presumably a Red-throated x Black-throated. </p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64077" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-02-05-poss-black-throated-x-red-throated-thrush-intergrade-botanical-gardens-front-on-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-front-on-1.jpeg?fit=5145%2C3186&ssl=1" data-orig-size="5145,3186" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1738734359","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"900","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-02-05 poss Black-throated x Red-throated Thrush intergrade, Botanical Gardens front on","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-02-05 poss Black-throated x Red-throated Thrush intergrade, Botanical Gardens front on" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-front-on-1.jpeg?fit=300%2C186&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-front-on-1.jpeg?fit=660%2C409&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64077" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-front-on-1.jpeg?resize=660%2C409&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="409" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-front-on-1.jpeg?w=5145&ssl=1 5145w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-front-on-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C186&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-front-on-1.jpeg?resize=1024%2C634&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-front-on-1.jpeg?resize=150%2C93&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-front-on-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C476&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-front-on-1.jpeg?resize=1536%2C951&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-front-on-1.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1268&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-front-on-1.jpeg?resize=825%2C510&ssl=1 825w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-front-on-1.jpeg?resize=439%2C272&ssl=1 439w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-front-on-1.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-front-on-1.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>5 February 2025, Botanical Gardens</p>
<p>Whilst some dark markings on the throat and upper breast can be indicative of young or female birds, this bird shows some black feathers mixed with red on the lower part of the gorget, suggesting intergradation.</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64078" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-01-28-red-throated-thrush-botanical-gardens/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-ad-Red-throated-Thrush-dark-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=3959%2C2697&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3959,2697" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1738042018","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"1600","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-01-28 Red-throated Thrush, Botanical Gardens","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-01-28 Red-throated Thrush, Botanical Gardens" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-ad-Red-throated-Thrush-dark-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=300%2C204&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-ad-Red-throated-Thrush-dark-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=660%2C450&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64078" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-ad-Red-throated-Thrush-dark-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=660%2C450&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="450" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-ad-Red-throated-Thrush-dark-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=3959&ssl=1 3959w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-ad-Red-throated-Thrush-dark-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=300%2C204&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-ad-Red-throated-Thrush-dark-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1024%2C698&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-ad-Red-throated-Thrush-dark-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=150%2C102&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-ad-Red-throated-Thrush-dark-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=768%2C523&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-ad-Red-throated-Thrush-dark-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1046&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-ad-Red-throated-Thrush-dark-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1395&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-ad-Red-throated-Thrush-dark-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=399%2C272&ssl=1 399w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-ad-Red-throated-Thrush-dark-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-01-28-ad-Red-throated-Thrush-dark-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>5 February 2025, Botanical Gardens</p>
<p>This bird shows darker red feathers than usual. Is this an intergrade with Black-throated or just a variation in Red-throated?</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64074" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-02-05-poss-black-throated-x-red-throated-thrush-intergrade-botanical-gardens-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1-1.jpeg?fit=4611%2C3251&ssl=1" data-orig-size="4611,3251" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1738737833","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"900","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-02-05 poss Black-throated x Red-throated Thrush intergrade, Botanical Gardens","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-02-05 poss Black-throated x Red-throated Thrush intergrade, Botanical Gardens" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1-1.jpeg?fit=300%2C212&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1-1.jpeg?fit=660%2C465&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64074" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1-1.jpeg?resize=660%2C465&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="465" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1-1.jpeg?w=4611&ssl=1 4611w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C212&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1-1.jpeg?resize=1024%2C722&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1-1.jpeg?resize=150%2C106&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C541&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1-1.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1083&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1-1.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1444&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1-1.jpeg?resize=386%2C272&ssl=1 386w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1-1.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-poss-Black-throated-x-Red-throated-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1-1.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>5 February 2025</p>
<p>This bird shows predominantly blackish feathers on the gorget but the undertail and undertail coverts are reddish, ruling out a pure Black-throated. The rather heavy marks on the undertail coverts may be indicative of Naumann’s genes.</p>
<p><strong>Black-throated x Naumann’s?</strong></p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64052" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-02-05-presumed-black-throated-x-naumanns-thrush-intergrade-botanical-gardens-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-Presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=4067%2C2625&ssl=1" data-orig-size="4067,2625" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1738734236","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"1800","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-02-05 Presumed Black-throated x Naumann's Thrush intergrade, Botanical Gardens","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-02-05 Presumed Black-throated x Naumann’s Thrush intergrade, Botanical Gardens" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-Presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=300%2C194&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-Presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=660%2C426&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64052" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-Presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=660%2C426&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="426" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-Presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=4067&ssl=1 4067w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-Presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=300%2C194&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-Presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1024%2C661&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-Presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=150%2C97&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-Presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=768%2C496&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-Presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1536%2C991&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-Presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1322&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-Presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=421%2C272&ssl=1 421w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-Presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-Presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>28 January 2025, Botanical Gardens</p>
<p>This striking bird is wintering in the Botanical Gardens and is presumably a Black-throated x Naumann’s intergrade. The obvious black upper breast pattern combined with the Naumann’s like flanks and tail suggest this combination. </p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64045" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-02-05-presumed-black-throated-x-naumanns-thrush-intergrade-front-on2-botanical-gardens/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-front-on2-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=4501%2C2873&ssl=1" data-orig-size="4501,2873" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1738734422","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-02-05 presumed Black-throated x Naumann's Thrush intergrade front on2, Botanical Gardens","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-02-05 presumed Black-throated x Naumann’s Thrush intergrade front on2, Botanical Gardens" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-front-on2-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=300%2C191&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-front-on2-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?fit=660%2C422&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64045" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-front-on2-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=660%2C421&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="421" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-front-on2-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=4501&ssl=1 4501w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-front-on2-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=300%2C191&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-front-on2-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1024%2C654&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-front-on2-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=150%2C96&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-front-on2-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=768%2C490&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-front-on2-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=1536%2C980&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-front-on2-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1307&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-front-on2-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?resize=426%2C272&ssl=1 426w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-front-on2-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-front-on2-Botanical-Gardens.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>5 February 2025, Botanical Gardens</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64046" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2025-02-05-presumed-black-throated-x-naumanns-thrush-intergrade-botanical-gardens/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?fit=5118%2C3398&ssl=1" data-orig-size="5118,3398" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON Z 8","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1738734416","copyright":"","focal_length":"600","iso":"1000","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"2025-02-05 presumed Black-throated x Naumann's Thrush intergrade, Botanical Gardens","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2025-02-05 presumed Black-throated x Naumann’s Thrush intergrade, Botanical Gardens" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?fit=300%2C199&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?fit=660%2C438&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64046" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?resize=660%2C438&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="438" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?w=5118&ssl=1 5118w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C199&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?resize=1024%2C680&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?resize=150%2C100&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C510&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1020&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1360&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?resize=410%2C272&ssl=1 410w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-05-presumed-Black-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush-intergrade-Botanical-Gardens-1.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>5 February 2025, Botanical Gardens</p>
<p>Two more images of the same bird showing the flank pattern and undertail coverts.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Red-throated x Naumann’s?</strong></p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="64070" data-permalink="https://wildbeijing.org/2025/02/10/winter-thrushes-in-beijing/2021-12-25-poss-red-throated-x-naumanns-thrush-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2021-12-25-poss-Red-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush.jpeg?fit=2075%2C1490&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2075,1490" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"","camera":"Canon EOS 760D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1640415022","copyright":"","focal_length":"400","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"0.00079999997978905","title":"2021-12-25 poss Red-throated x Naumann's Thrush","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="2021-12-25 poss Red-throated x Naumann’s Thrush" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2021-12-25-poss-Red-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush.jpeg?fit=300%2C215&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2021-12-25-poss-Red-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush.jpeg?fit=660%2C474&ssl=1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64070" src="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2021-12-25-poss-Red-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush.jpeg?resize=660%2C474&ssl=1" alt="" width="660" height="474" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2021-12-25-poss-Red-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush.jpeg?w=2075&ssl=1 2075w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2021-12-25-poss-Red-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush.jpeg?resize=300%2C215&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2021-12-25-poss-Red-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush.jpeg?resize=1024%2C735&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2021-12-25-poss-Red-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush.jpeg?resize=150%2C108&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2021-12-25-poss-Red-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush.jpeg?resize=768%2C551&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2021-12-25-poss-Red-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1103&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2021-12-25-poss-Red-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1471&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2021-12-25-poss-Red-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush.jpeg?resize=379%2C272&ssl=1 379w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2021-12-25-poss-Red-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush.jpeg?w=1320&ssl=1 1320w, https://i0.wp.com/wildbeijing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2021-12-25-poss-Red-throated-x-Naumanns-Thrush.jpeg?w=1980&ssl=1 1980w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></p>
<p>25 December 2021, Botanical Gardens</p>
<p>The denisty of red on the upper breast of this bird, combined with the relatively plain head pattern, may indicate Red-throated genes, while the flanks and reddish panel on the wing suggest Naumann’s. </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Red-throated x Dusky?</strong></p>
<p>The images below are from Beihai Park in January 2021. If only the head and breast pattern are considered, my best guess would be a Red-throated x Black-throated Thrush but the rufous wings suggest Dusky or Naumann’s influence. A Red-throated x Dusky may make most sense here. </p>
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<p>18 January, 2021, Beihai Park</p>
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<p>18 January 2021, Beihai Park</p>
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<p>First generation intergrades are probably, in most cases, relatively easy to work out but there must be all sorts of combinations of second and third generation birds, and beyond, out there.</p>
<p>Watching winter thrushes in Beijing is always rewarding. Whether pure or intergrades, the majority are striking birds and a joy to spend time with, even if sometimes we can’t know for sure what we are looking at!</p>
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<p>With huge gratitude to the speakers from China, Thailand and Vietnam, including the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, there is now a short summary of the special webinar on mist nets in Asia on the <a href="https://www.orientalbirdclub.org/club-news/2025/1/27/illegal-mist-net-use-threats-wild-birds-in-the-east-asian-australasian-flyway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oriental Bird Club website</a>.</p>
<p>In addition to the speakers, the organisers would like to thank the 130 people who joined online from around the world and the interpreters who kindly provided simultaneous English and Mandarin translation.</p>
<p>A snippet of the summary is below. For the full article, please see <a href="https://www.orientalbirdclub.org/club-news/2025/1/27/illegal-mist-net-use-threats-wild-birds-in-the-east-asian-australasian-flyway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this link</a>.</p>
<p>“The webinar heard case studies from south and north Vietnam (Trang Nguyen from WildAct Vietnam and Nguyen Hoai Bao of WildTour and BirdLife International), Thailand (Rongrong Angkaew of King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi) and China (Dan Liang of Princeton University). The case studies brought home the scale of illegal mist-net use in Asia for poaching and crop protection and some of the pioneering work to engage with authorities and local communities to try to reduce bird mortality, especially in wetlands and production landscapes in the region.</p>
<p>Representatives from the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of China – Deputy Director General Qiu Jinghui and Prosecutors Mou Qi and Ding Shu – then gave short presentations on the action being taken in China to tackle this issue. Deputy General Qiu revealed that addressing illegal mist-net use was now a high priority for the Supreme People’s Procuratorate who are focusing on “preventative, systematic and co-ordinated protection of wild birds.” The prosecutors had engaged with e-commerce platforms where mist-nets are cheaply and easily available to flag to anyone searching for mist-nets that their use to catch or kill wild birds is illegal. The national level prosecutors had also instructed provincial level prosecutors to prioritise the control of mist-nets. Case studies were presented in which local officials, after finding wild birds were being killed using mist-nets, had engaged with local communities to raise awareness of the law relating to wild bird protection and to explore alternative crop protection methods that do not involve the killing of wild birds. In 2025 research will take place into identifying a standard for anti-bird nets that protect crops but are more visible to birds, for example nets with a thick cord, and controlling the production and public sale of nets with a thinner cord. The prosecutors also noted that some of the mist-nets being used in Thailand and Vietnam had been imported from China and they will explore the potential to restrict their export from China.”</p>
<p>The organisers and speakers agreed to continue this discussion and there will be a meeting shortly after the Spring Festival to discuss next steps.</p>
<p>Thanks again to everyone involved for making the webinar possible and for shining a light on this important issue. For those that missed the webinar, it is expected that the case study presentations will soon be available via the Oriental Bird Club website. Links will be provided as soon as they are live.</p>
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<p>Title image: a caged Yellow-breasted Bunting positioned as a lure adjacent to an illegally set mist net in Hebei Province (photo by Terry Townshend)</p>
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