2019 Autumn Tour

Tour Information
Dates	10 Nov 2019 ~ 22 Nov 2019, 13 Days
Tour Size	Min 8; Max 15 Spaces available
Tour Price (per person)	US$ 4,800
Deposite	US$ 700
Single Room Supplement	US$ 600
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We will first leave from Shangahi to visit the best mudflat of Yellow Sea, the Dongtai-Rudong mudflat, which supports Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Nordmann's Greenshank, Far Eastern Curlew and many other endangered wader species. After days of walk on mudflat, we move to Wuyuan, a beautiful hillycountry with nice preserved mountain habitat for Pied Falconet and wintering scaly-sided merganser.

Then, we go to Poyang Lake, the largest fresh water lakein China, and the most important wintering sites for Siberian Cranes and manyother ducks, geese and cranes. With 2 hours bullet train, we move to Dongzhai Nature Reserve and will try Reeves’s Pheasant and the reintroduced Crested Ibis. The last and third nature reserve we are going to visit is Yanchang Nature Reserve for Red-crowned Crane, also we will visit mudflat with reeds, and large open water area for Japanese Reed Bunting and Baikal Teals.

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Tour Details
Target species	Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Nordmann’s Greenshank, Asian Dowitcher, Far Eastern Curlew, Great Knot, Red Knot, Bar-tailed Godwit, Saunders’s Gull, Relict Gull, Black- faced Spoonbill, Reed Parrotbill, Scaly-sided Merganser, Scimitar Babblers, Short-tailed Parrotbill, Dusky Fulvetta, Chinese Bamboo Partridge, and other forest birds including Pied Falconet, Red-billed Leiothrix, Red-billed Starling, Red-billed Blue Magpie, Chestnut Bulbul, Grey-headed Parrotbill etc. Siberian Crane, Baer’s Pochard and Geese of all kinds Reeves’s Pheasant and the reintroduced Crested Ibis, Red-crowned Crane, Japanese Reed Bunting and Baikal Teals
Habitat	open mudflat, paddy field, reed beds, broad-leaved forest, bamboo
Temperature	Humid and Cold, windy on open mudflat
Conservation Programs	1 hour schol visit, 1 hour conservation talk
Accomodation	four star hotel or equivalent
Walking Difficulty	easy to moderate, some hill walks