Site Report: Lijiang - Lashihai Wetland Park

Lashi Lake Entrance

Ruddy Shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea)

Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca) - Male

Bar-headed Goose (Anser indicus)

Ferruginous Pochard (Aythya nyroca) - Female

Eastern Spot-billed Duck (Anas zonorhyncha)

Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)

Ferruginous Pochard (Aythya nyroca)

Common Crane (Grus grus)

Common Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna)

Gray-headed Swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus)











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Lashi Lake Entrance

Ruddy Shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea)

Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca) - Male

Bar-headed Goose (Anser indicus)

Ferruginous Pochard (Aythya nyroca) - Female

Eastern Spot-billed Duck (Anas zonorhyncha)

Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)

Ferruginous Pochard (Aythya nyroca)

Common Crane (Grus grus)

Common Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna)

Gray-headed Swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus)
Lake full of ducks.
Visits
- 2013-01-08: We arranged a car to take us to the Lashi Wetland where I expected to find about 10 ducks. I was quite surprised to get there and find that there were thousands of ducks. We walked around for a couple of hours in freezing temperatures.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (31 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(31 records)
Class: Birds
(31 records)
- Order: Anseriformes
(13 records)
- Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
- Graylag Goose (Anser anser)
- Bar-headed Goose (Anser indicus)
- Ruddy Shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea)
- Common Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna)
- Eurasian Wigeon (Mareca penelope)
- Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
- Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata)
- Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)
- Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca)
- Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina)
- Common Pochard (Aythya ferina)
- Ferruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca)
- Eastern Spot-billed Duck (Anas zonorhyncha)
- Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies
(4 records)
- Family: Cranes
- Common Crane (Grus grus)
- Family: Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
- Eurasian Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
- Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra)
- Gray-headed Swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus)
- Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots
(1 record)
- Family: Kingfishers
- Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
- Order: Pelicans
(7 records)
- Family: Cormorants
- Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
- Family: Grebes
- Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
- Family: Herons
- Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
- Gray Heron (Ardea cinerea)
- Great Egret (Ardea alba)
- Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
- Order: Perching Birds
(4 records)
- Family: Bushtits
- Black-throated Tit (Aegithalos concinnus)
- Family: Old World Flycatchers
- Siberian Stonechat (Saxicola maurus)
- Family: Wagtails and Pipits
- White Wagtail (Motacilla alba)
- Family: Wrens
- Eurasian Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies
(2 records)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
- Family: Plovers
- Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)