Chicken Guides of the World: Sid Francis, Sichuan, China

What’s your favourite fowl species?

Crested Tit-warbler, Leptopoecile elegans

What’s your title, and the place do you reside?

Sid Francis Dujiangyuan, Sichuan, China

Black-necked Crane

What are the primary areas or areas you cowl as a fowl information?

Sichuan, Qinghai, Yunnan, Poyang Lakes, Emei Feng, Wuyuan and Dongzhai areas

How lengthy have you ever been a fowl information?

Since 2007

Tibetan Bunting

How did you get into fowl guiding?

Birding since earlier than I can keep in mind – when transferring to China I wrote birding posts. The suggestions resulted in visiting birders wanting guiding

What are the features of being a fowl information that you simply like greatest? Which features do you dislike most?

Finest – succeeding to find purchasers key focus species. Worst – ongoing adjustments in native entry and degradation of birding probabilities as a result of varied rural developments.

What are the highest 5-10 birds in your area that you simply assume are essentially the most fascinating for visiting birders?

• Pheasants: Golden, Girl Amherst’s, Reeve’s

Girl Amherst’s Pheasant

• Temminck’s and Cabbot’sTragopan
• Firethroat

• Przewalski’s Finch (Pinktail)
• Black-necked and Siberian Crane
• Rufous-headed Robin (at present inaccessible)
• White-browed and Crested Tit Warblers
• Sillem’s Rosefinch
• Biet’s Laughingthrush

Are you able to define a minimum of one typical birdwatching journey in your space? Please briefly describe the areas, the important thing birds, and the approximate length of such a visit

• Sichuan spherical journey – 16 full days, Hengduan Mountains websites, Erlang, Labahe, Balang (a lot degraded from previous days): Monal Pheasant, Girl A Pheasant, Golden Pheasant, Temminck’s Tragopan, Blood Pheasant, Koklass Pheasant, Tibetan Snowcock, Snow Partridge, Fireplace-capped Tit, Golden Bush Warbler, Firethroat. Noticed Bush Warbler, Chestnut-crowned Bush Warbler, Gray-sided Bush Warbler, Aberrant Bush Warbler, Scaly-breasted Cupwing, White-bellied Redstart, Black-faced Laughingthrush, Leaf Warblers Emei Leaf Warbler, Rufous-tailed Moupinia, Fulvous Parrotbill, Brown, Three-toed and Nice Parrotbill, Eye-ringed Parrotbill, Firethroat, Chinese language Rubythroat White-browed Bush Robin, Noticed, Barred, Big Laughingthrush, White-browed Tit Warbler, Chinese language Fulvetta, Sharpe’s, Darkish-breasted, Darkish-rumped and different Rosefinches, Sichuan Forest Thrush, Alpine Forest Thrush, Rufous-breasted accentor, Grandala

Brown Parrotbill

Grandala

• South Sichuan websites – Longgcangou space, Xichang, Yibin Hides, Moxi: Sichuan Partridge, Temminck’s Tragopan, Girl A Pheasant, Silver Pheasant, Emei Liocichla, Buffy Laughingthrush, Yunnan Nuthatch, Yunnan Fulvetta, Crested Finchbill, Black-headed Greenfinch, Bar-winged Wren Babbler, Gold-fronted Fulvetta, Brown, Three-toed, Gray-hooded, Nice Parrotbills, Firethroat, Blue-fronted Robin

Gray-hooded Parrotbill

Temminck’s Tragopan

• North Sichuan Websites -Baxi, Jiuzhaigou, Tangjiahe: Crested Tit Warbler, Blue Eared Pheasant, Tibetan Snowcock, Chinese language Grouse, Chinese language Thrush, White-browed Tit, Blood Pheasant, Pere David’s Owl, Tawny Fish Owl, Crested Kingfisher, Spot-breasted Parrotbill, Spectacled Parrotbill, Three-Banded Rosefinch, Zappey’s Flycatcher, Moustached Laughingthrush, Suketchev’s Laughingthrush, Pere Davids Laughingthrush, Chinese language Nuthatch, Pere David’s Tit, Siberian Rubythroat, Sichuan Jay

White-browed Tit

• Tibetan Grassland Websites – Ruoergai: Saker Falcon, Upland Buzzard, Lammergeier, Himalayan Griffon, Black-necked Crane, Little Owl, Eurasian Eagle Owl, Daurian Jackdaw, Black-rumped Magpie, Japanese Azure-winged Magpie, Tibetan Lark, Citrine Wagtail, Tibetan Gray Shrike, White-browed Tit, White-rumped, Rufous-necked, Black-winged Snowfinches, White-browed Tit Warbler, Tibetan Partridge, Przewalski’s Finch (Pinktail), Siberian Stonechat, Tickell’s Leaf Warbler, Robin Accentor, Hill Pigeon, Snow Pigeon

Lammergeier

What different solutions are you able to give to birders keen on your space?

• Finest visiting occasions are: Sichuan – Might to first half of July, Yunnan – December to March, Poyang, Dongzhai, Emei Feng – December to March
• Binoculars are important, information has a scope and thermal imager
• We work greatest with skilled world birders on longer journeys

If any reader of 10,000 Birds is keen on birding with you, how can they greatest contact you?

By way of electronic mail chengduuk@hotmail.com or via my Twitter account https://x.com/BirdingSichuan