Trip Report: China Solar Eclipse (2009-07-12 - 2009-07-26)
Rhesus Monkey (Macaca mulatta) - Baby Feeding
Unidentified Butterfly
Fenghuang - Hong Qiao Bridge
Fenghuang - Hong Qiao Bridge
Fenghuang - River Scene
Southern Great Wall - From the Road
Southern Great Wall
Praying Mantis
Tea Plantantion Amid Bamboo
Unidentified Frog (Rana ssp.)
Solar Eclipse Viewing Site
Partial Phase of Solar Eclipse Over Sinopec Station
Total Solar Eclipse Over Gas Station
Solar Eclipse After 3rd Contact
Dragon Boat
Westlake Squirrel - Uneaten!
Leifeng Pagoda
Golden Whip Stream
Golden Whip Stream Trail
Unidentified Dragonfly
Wulingyuan Scenery
Wulingyuan Rocky Outcrop
Cool Spider
Baofeng Hu
Baofeng Hu
Baofeng Hu Singer
Fenghuang Fruit Cart
Fenghuang - Hong Qiao Bridge
Fenghuang - Street Scene
Rhesus Monkey (Macaca mulatta) - Baby Feeding
Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus) - Bewick's
Blue-spotted Crow Butterfly (Euploea midamus)
Common Tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius)
Scaly-breasted Munia (Lonchura punctulata)
Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush (Ianthocincla pectoralis)
Red-billed Blue-Magpie (Urocissa erythroryncha)
Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus) - Bewick's
Oriental Garden Lizard (Calotes versicolor)
Brown Dipper (Cinclus pallasii)
Light-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis)
Red-whiskered Bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus)
Vinous-throated Parrotbill (Sinosuthora webbiana)
Oriental Magpie-Robin (Copsychus saularis)
Blue-spotted Mudskipper (boleophthalmus pectinirostris)
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Rhesus Monkey (Macaca mulatta) - Baby Feeding
Unidentified Butterfly
Fenghuang - Hong Qiao Bridge
Fenghuang - Hong Qiao Bridge
Fenghuang - River Scene
Southern Great Wall - From the Road
Southern Great Wall
Praying Mantis
Tea Plantantion Amid Bamboo
Unidentified Frog (Rana ssp.)
Solar Eclipse Viewing Site
Partial Phase of Solar Eclipse Over Sinopec Station
Total Solar Eclipse Over Gas Station
Solar Eclipse After 3rd Contact
Dragon Boat
Westlake Squirrel - Uneaten!
Leifeng Pagoda
Golden Whip Stream
Golden Whip Stream Trail
Unidentified Dragonfly
Wulingyuan Scenery
Wulingyuan Rocky Outcrop
Cool Spider
Baofeng Hu
Baofeng Hu
Baofeng Hu Singer
Fenghuang Fruit Cart
Fenghuang - Hong Qiao Bridge
Fenghuang - Street Scene
Rhesus Monkey (Macaca mulatta) - Baby Feeding
Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus) - Bewick's
Blue-spotted Crow Butterfly (Euploea midamus)
Common Tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius)
Scaly-breasted Munia (Lonchura punctulata)
Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush (Ianthocincla pectoralis)
Red-billed Blue-Magpie (Urocissa erythroryncha)
Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus) - Bewick's
Oriental Garden Lizard (Calotes versicolor)
Brown Dipper (Cinclus pallasii)
Light-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis)
Red-whiskered Bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus)
Vinous-throated Parrotbill (Sinosuthora webbiana)
Oriental Magpie-Robin (Copsychus saularis)
Blue-spotted Mudskipper (boleophthalmus pectinirostris)
This trip started with a 13 hour flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong. We explored Hong Kong and the New Territories for a few days before taking the train to China's Hunan province in order to visit Zhangjiajie (Wulingyuan Scenic Area) and Fenghuang then to the Shanghai area to view a total solar eclipse on July 22, 2009.
Sites Visited
Country: China
(7 sites)
Country: Hong Kong
(3 sites)
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (81 records)
Phylum: Arthropods
(3 records)
Class: Arachnids
(1 record)
- Order: Spiders
(1 record)
- Family: Golden Orbweavers
- Giant Golden Orbweaver (Nephila pilipes)
Class: Insects
(1 record)
- Order: Butterflies and Moths
(1 record)
- Family: Brush-footed Butterflies
- Blue-spotted Crow Butterfly (Euploea midamus)
Class: Malacostracans
(1 record)
- Order: Crabs
(1 record)
- Family: Ghost Crabs
- Fiddler Crab (Uca arcuata)
Phylum: Chordates
(77 records)
Class: Birds
(68 records)
- Order: Anseriformes
(3 records)
- Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
- Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus)
- Falcated Duck (Mareca falcata)
- Eurasian Wigeon (Mareca penelope)
- Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies
(1 record)
- Family: Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
- White-breasted Waterhen (Amaurornis phoenicurus)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons
(2 records)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)
- Spotted Dove (Spilopelia chinensis)
- Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies
(2 records)
- Family: Hawks, Eagles, and Kites
- Black Kite (Milvus migrans)
- Family: Osprey
- Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts
(1 record)
- Family: Swifts
- Pacific Swift (Apus pacificus)
- Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots (2 records)
- Order: Pelicans (9 records)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
- Family: Stilts and Avocets
- Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus)
- Order: Perching Birds (43 records)
- Family: Bushtits
- Black-throated Tit (Aegithalos concinnus)
- Family: Cardueline Finches and Allies
- Oriental Greenfinch (Chloris sinica)
- Family: Chickadees and Titmice
- Green-backed Tit (Parus monticolus)
- Asian Tit (Parus cinereus)
- Family: Dippers
- Brown Dipper (Cinclus pallasii)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- Red-billed Blue-Magpie (Urocissa erythroryncha)
- Family: Leaf Warblers
- Dusky Warbler (Phylloscopus fuscatus)
- Golden-spectacled Warbler (Phylloscopus burkii)
- Family: Old World Buntings
- Meadow Bunting (Emberiza cioides)
- Family: Old World Flycatchers
- Slaty-backed Forktail (Enicurus schistaceus)
- White-crowned Forktail (Enicurus leschenaulti)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus)
- White-rumped Munia (Lonchura striata)
- Scaly-breasted Munia (Lonchura punctulata)
- Family: Old World Warblers and Gnatcatchers
- Common Tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius)
- Silver-eared Mesia (Leiothrix argentauris)
- Indochinese Yuhina (Staphida torqueola)
- Family: Parrotbills
- Vinous-throated Parrotbill (Suthora webbiana)
- Family: Shrikes
- Long-tailed Shrike (Lanius schach)
- Family: Starlings and Mynas
- Black-collared Starling (Gracupica nigricollis)
- Crested Myna (Acridotheres cristatellus)
- Family: Swallows
- Bank Swallow (Riparia riparia)
- Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
- Eastern Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis daurica)
- Family: Thrushes and Allies
- Blue Whistling-Thrush (Myophonus caeruleus)
- Oriental Magpie-Robin (Copsychus saularis)
- Plumbeous Redstart (Phoenicurus fuliginosus)
- Chinese Blackbird (Turdus mandarinus)
- Family: Tree-Babblers, Scimitar-Babblers and Allies
- Masked Laughingthrush (Pterorhinus perspicillatus)
- Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush (Pterorhinus pectoralis)
- Chinese Hwamei (Garrulax canorus)
- White-browed Laughingthrush (Pterorhinus sannio)
- Streak-breasted Scimitar-Babbler (Pomatorhinus ruficollis)
- David's Fulvetta (Alcippe davidi)
- Family: Wagtails and Pipits
- White Wagtail (Motacilla alba)
- Family: White-eyes
- Swinhoe's White-eye (Zosterops simplex)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies
(2 records)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Black-naped Tern (Sterna sumatrana)
- Family: Plovers
- Little Ringed Plover (Thinornis dubius)
- Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides (3 records)
Class: Mammals
(4 records)
- Order: Primates
(2 records)
- Family: Hominidae
- Human (Homo sapiens)
- Family: Old World Monkeys
- Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta)
- Order: Rodents (2 records)
Class: Ray-finned Fish
(2 records)
- Order: Goby
(2 records)
- Family: Mudskippers and Allies
- Blue-spotted Mudskipper (Periophthalmus pectinirostris)
- Shuttle's Hoppfish (Periophthalmus modestus)
Class: Reptiles
(3 records)
- Order: Lizards and Snakes
(2 records)
- Family: Agamas
- Oriental Garden Lizard (Calotes versicolor)
- Family: Snakes
- Dhaman (Ptyas mucosa)
- Order: Turtles
(1 record)
- Family: Fresh Water Turtle
- Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta)
Phylum: Mullusks
(1 record)
Class: Gastropod
(1 record)
- Order: Common Land Snails and Slugs
(1 record)
- Family: Giant Land Snails
- Giant African Land Snail (Achatina fulica)