Cumulative Checklist
with James Lidster as leader
- Column A = Number of tours out of four on which this species has been recorded.
- Column B = Number of days this species was seen on the 2008 tour.
- Column C = Maximum daily count for this species on the 2008 tour.
- Column D = H = Heard only
| A | B | C | D | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black-throated Diver | Gavia arctica | |||
| 4 | Great Crested Grebe | 5 | 200 | Podiceps cristatus | |
| 3 | Slavonian Grebe | 2 | 7 | Podiceps auritus | |
| 4 | Black-necked Grebe | 3 | 5 | Podiceps nigricollis | |
| 4 | Great Cormorant | 4 | 400 | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
| 1 | Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |||
| 1 | Little' Bittern sp | Ixobrychus sp | |||
| 1 | Chinese Pond Heron | Ardeola bacchus | |||
| 4 | Great White Egret | 1 | 1 | Egretta alba | |
| 1 | Intermediate Egret | Mesophoyx intermedia | |||
| 4 | Grey Heron | 5 | 100 | Ardea cinerea | |
| 4 | Black Stork | 2 | 1 | Ciconia nigra | |
| 4 | Eurasian Spoonbill | 6 | 17 | Platalea leucorodia | |
| 3 | Mute Swan | 2 | 5 | Cygnus olor | |
| 4 | Whooper Swan | 6 | 10 | Cygnus cygnus | |
| 1 | Bewick's Swan | Cygnus columbianus | |||
| 2 | Bean Goose | Anser fabalis | |||
| 4 | Greylag Goose | 3 | 200 | Anser anser | |
| 4 | Bar-headed Goose | 3 | 15 | Anser indicus | |
| 4 | Swan Goose | 6 | 50 | Anser cygnoides | |
| 4 | Ruddy Shelduck | 11 | 80 | Tadorna ferruginea | |
| 4 | Common Shelduck | 6 | 20 | Tadorna tadorna | |
| 4 | Eurasian Wigeon | 5 | 30 | Anas penelope | |
| 4 | Gadwall | 6 | 50 | Anas strepera | |
| 4 | Common Teal | 4 | 20 | Anas crecca | |
| 4 | Mallard | 6 | 20 | Anas platyrhynchos | |
| 4 | Northern Pintail | 4 | 20 | Anas acuta | |
| 4 | Garganey | 4 | 100 | Anas querquedula | |
| 4 | Northern Shoveler | 5 | 10 | Anas clypeata | |
| 4 | Red-crested Pochard | 3 | 100 | Netta rufina | |
| 4 | Common Pochard | 4 | 30 | Aythya ferina | |
| 4 | Ferruginous Duck | 1 | 3 | Aythya nyroca | |
| 1 | Baer's Pochard | Aythya baeri | |||
| 4 | Tufted Duck | 5 | 50 | Aythya fuligula | |
| 3 | Asiatic White-winged Scoter | 2 | 7 | Melanitta deglandi/stejnegeri | |
| 3 | Common Goldeneye | 4 | 30 | Bucephala clangula | |
| 4 | Goosander | 6 | 12 | Mergus merganser | |
| 1 | Smew | Mergellus albellus | |||
| 4 | Oriental Honey Buzzard | 1 | 1 | Pernis ptilorhynchus | |
| 4 | Black Kite | 15 | 10 | Milvus migrans lineatus | |
| 2 | White-tailed Eagle | Haliaeetus albicilla | |||
| 4 | Pallas's Fish Eagle | 3 | 4 | Haliaeetus leucoryphus | |
| 3 | Lammergeier | 5 | 3 | Gypaetus barbatus | |
| 3 | Himalayan Griffon Vulture | 2 | 2 | Gyps himalayensis | |
| 3 | Eurasian Griffon Vulture | 2 | 6 | Gyps fulvus | |
| 4 | Black Vulture | 12 | 6 | Aegypius monachus | |
| 1 | Eastern Marsh Harrier | 2 | 1 | Circus spilonotus | |
| 3 | Western Marsh Harrier | 3 | 1 | Circus aeruginosus | |
| 1 | Hen Harrier | Circus cyaneus | |||
| 3 | Northern Goshawk | 3 | 1 | Accipiter gentilis | |
| 4 | Eurasian Sparrowhawk | 1 | 1 | Accipiter nisus | |
| 4 | Upland Buzzard | 10 | 5 | Buteo hemilasius | |
| 4 | Steppe Eagle | 7 | 4 | Aquila nipalensis | |
| 4 | Golden Eagle | 3 | 2 | Aquila chrysaetos | |
| 4 | Booted Eagle | 7 | 3 | Aquila pennatus | |
| 4 | Lesser Kestrel | 3 | 7 | Falco naumanni | |
| 4 | Common Kestrel | 9 | 6 | Falco tinnunculus | |
| 4 | Amur Falcon | 6 | 7 | Falco amurensis | |
| 4 | Eurasian Hobby | 5 | 2 | Falco subbuteo | |
| 4 | Saker Falcon | 7 | 3 | Falco cherrug | |
| 2 | Altai Snowcock | 1 | 3 | Tetraogallus altaicus | |
| 1 | Hazelhen | 1 | 2 | Tetrastes bonasia | |
| 1 | Black Grouse | 1 | 1 | Tetrao tetrix | |
| 2 | Chukar | 2 | 2 | Alectoris chukar | |
| 3 | Daurian Partridge | 2 | 2 | Perdix dauuricae | |
| 1 | Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | |||
| 1 | Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | |||
| 3 | Baillon's Crake | 1 | 1 | Porzana pusilla | |
| 4 | Common Coot | 2 | 10 | Fulica atra | |
| 2 | Common Crane | 2 | 3 | Grus grus | |
| 3 | White-naped Crane | 2 | 6 | Grus vipio | |
| 4 | Demoiselle Crane | 13 | 60 | Anthropoides virgo | |
| 4 | Black-winged Stilt | 2 | 14 | Himantopus himantopus | |
| 4 | Avocet | 4 | 30 | Recurvirostra avosetta | |
| 4 | Little Ringed Plover | 8 | 10 | Charadrius dubius | |
| 4 | Kentish Plover | 4 | 30 | Charadrius alexandrinus | |
| 4 | Greater Sand Plover | 3 | 8 | Charadrius leschenaultii | |
| 3 | Oriental Plover | 5 | 3 | Charadrius veredus | |
| 4 | Pacific Golden Plover | 1 | 4 | Pluvialis fulva | |
| 2 | Grey Plover | 1 | 4 | Pluvialis squatorola | |
| 1 | Grey-headed Lapwing | Vanellus cinereus | |||
| 4 | Northern Lapwing | 6 | 30 | Vanellus vanellus | |
| 2 | Red-necked Stint | 1 | 3 | Calidris ruficollis | |
| 3 | Little Stint | 1 | 6 | Calidris minuta | |
| 2 | Temminck's Stint | 1 | 1 | Calidris temminckii | |
| 2 | Long-toed Stint | 1 | 1 | Calidris subminuta | |
| 1 | Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | |||
| 1 | Dunlin | Calidris alpina | |||
| 2 | Sanderling | 1 | 30 | Calidris alba | |
| 1 | Broad-billed Sandpiper | Limicola falcinellus | |||
| 1 | Ruff | Philomachus pugnax | |||
| 4 | Common Snipe | 4 | 10 | Gallinago gallinago | |
| 2 | Asiatic Dowitcher | Limnodromus semipalmatus | |||
| 4 | Black-tailed Godwit | 4 | 10 | Limosa limosa | |
| 2 | Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |||
| 2 | Eurasian Curlew | 1 | 1 | Numenius arquata | |
| 1 | Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | |||
| 4 | Common Redshank | 5 | 20 | Tringa totanus | |
| 4 | Marsh Sandpiper | 3 | 60 | Tringa stagnatilis | |
| 3 | Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |||
| 3 | Wood Sandpiper | 1 | 2 | Tringa glareola | |
| 1 | Green Sandpiper | 1 | 1 | Tringa ochropus | |
| 4 | Common Sandpiper | 2 | 3 | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| 3 | Ruddy Turnstone | 1 | 8 | Arenaria interpres | |
| 2 | Red-necked Phalarope | 2 | 1 | Phalaropus lobatus | |
| 4 | Pallas's Gull | 3 | 30 | Larus ichthyaetus | |
| 4 | Relict Gull | 1 | 1 | Larus relictus | |
| 2 | Little Gull | Larus minutus | |||
| 2 | Brown-headed Gull | 1 | 3 | Larus brunicephalus | |
| 4 | Black-headed Gull | 5 | 50 | Larus ridibundus | |
| 4 | Mongolian Gull | 4 | 50 | Larus mongolicus | |
| 4 | Gull-billed Tern | 4 | 4 | Gelochelidon nilotica | |
| 4 | Caspian Tern | 3 | 150 | Sterna caspia | |
| 4 | Common Tern | 8 | 500 | Sterna hirundo | |
| 3 | Little Tern | Sterna albifrons | |||
| 2 | Whiskered Tern | 3 | 3 | Chlidonias hybridus | |
| 2 | Black Tern | 1 | 5 | Chlidonias niger | |
| 4 | White-winged Black Tern | 6 | 100 | Chlidonias leucopterus | |
| 4 | Pallas's Sandgrouse | 10 | 1000 | Syrrhaptes paradoxus | |
| 4 | Rock Dove | 11 | 30 | Columba livia | |
| 4 | Hill Pigeon | 4 | 2 | Columba rupestris | |
| 4 | Eurasian Collared Dove | 4 | 9 | Streptopelia decaocto | |
| 1 | Oriental Turtle Dove | Streptopelia orientalis | |||
| 1 | Red Collared Dove | Streptopelia tranquebarica | |||
| 4 | Common Cuckoo | 10 | 4 | Cuculus canorus | |
| 4 | Oriental Cuckoo | 7 | 2 | Cuculus saturatus | |
| 1 | Eurasian Eagle Owl | Bubo bubo | |||
| 3 | Little Owl | 1 | 5 | Athene nocuta | |
| 3 | Long-eared Owl | Asio otus | |||
| 1 | Eurasian Scops Owl | Otus scops | |||
| 2 | Grey Nightjar | Caprimulgus indicus | |||
| 1 | European Nightjar | 1 | 1 | Caprimulgus europaeus | |
| 4 | Common Swift | 5 | 100 | Apus apus | |
| 4 | Pacific Swift | 13 | 100 | Apus pacificus | |
| 4 | Hoopoe | 10 | 4 | Upupa epops | |
| 4 | Eurasian Wryneck | 2 | 2 | Jynx torquilla | |
| 4 | Grey-headed Woodpecker | 2 | 1 | Picus canus | |
| 4 | Black Woodpecker | 3 | 4 | Dryocopus maritus | |
| 3 | White-backed Woodpecker | 1 | 1 | Dendrocopos leucotos | |
| 1 | Great spotted Woodpecker | 1 | 2 | Dendrocopus major | |
| 4 | Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | 2 | 2 | Dendrocopos minor | |
| 1 | Three-toed Woodpecker | Picoides tridactylus | |||
| 4 | Mongolian Lark | 5 | 10 | Melanocorypha mongolica | |
| 4 | Lesser Short-toed Lark | 11 | 80 | Calandrella rufescens | |
| 4 | Crested Lark | 1 | 4 | Galerida cristata | |
| 4 | Skylark | 7 | 10 | Alauda arvensis | |
| 4 | Horned Lark | 13 | 100 | Eremorphila alpestris | |
| 4 | Plain' Sand Martin | 4 | 20 | Riparia riparia 'diluta' | |
| 4 | Eurasian Crag Martin | 4 | 10 | Ptyonoprogne rupestris | |
| 4 | Barn Swallow | 6 | 5 | Hirundo rustica | |
| 4 | House Martin | 5 | 5 | Delichon urbica | |
| 4 | Richard's Pipit | 5 | 5 | Anthus richardi | |
| 4 | Blyth's Pipit | 4 | 4 | Anthus godlewskii | |
| 1 | Tawny Pipit | Anthus campestris | |||
| 4 | Olive-backed Pipit | 5 | 6 | Anthus hodgsoni | |
| 1 | Tree Pipit | Anthus trivialis | |||
| 3 | Water Pipit | 1 | 1 | Anthus spinoletta | |
| 3 | Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | |||
| 1 | Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava leucocephala | |||
| 4 | Citrine Wagtail | 9 | 4 | Motacilla citreola | |
| 4 | Grey Wagtail | 4 | 2 | Motacilla cinerea | |
| 3 | White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |||
| 4 | Baikal' White Wagtail | 8 | 2 | Motacilla alba baicalensis | |
| 3 | Amur' White Wagtail | 4 | 1 | Motacilla alba leucopsis | |
| 1 | Masked' White Wagtail | Motacilla alba personata | |||
| 3 | Alpine Accentor | 1 | 2 | Prunella collaris | |
| 4 | Brown Accentor | 2 | 6 | Prunella fulvescens | |
| 3 | Kozlov's Accentor | 3 | 2 | Prunella koslowi | |
| 4 | Siberian Rubythroat | 3 | 1 | Luscinia calliope | |
| 3 | Red-flanked Bluetail | 1 | 1 | H | Tarsiger cyanurus |
| 4 | Black Redstart | 2 | 4 | Phoenicurus ochruros | |
| 4 | Common Redstart | 4 | 4 | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | |
| 4 | Daurian Redstart | 3 | 2 | Phoenicurus auroreus | |
| 3 | Siberian Stonechat | 2 | 2 | Saxicola maurus | |
| 4 | Northern Wheatear | 11 | 10 | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
| 4 | Isabelline Wheatear | 15 | 50 | Oenanthe isabellina | |
| 4 | Pied Wheatear | 2 | 4 | Oenanthe pleschanka | |
| 4 | Desert Wheatear | 4 | 10 | Oenanthe deserti | |
| 4 | Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush | 3 | 2 | Monticola saxatilis | |
| 4 | Red-throated Thrush | 5 | 3 | Turdus ruficollis | |
| 1 | Eyebrowed Thrush | 1 | 1 | Turdus obscurus | |
| 1 | Chinese Bush Warbler | 2 | 1 | Bradypterus tacsanowskius | |
| 2 | Savi's Warbler | 1 | 1 | Locustella luscinoides | |
| 4 | Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler | 6 | 3 | Locustella certhiola | |
| 1 | Lanceolated Warbler | Locustella lanceolata | |||
| 3 | Paddyfield Warbler | Acrocephalus agricola | |||
| 1 | Blyth's Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus dumetorum | |||
| 4 | Oriental Reed Warbler | 1 | 1 | Acrocephalus orientalis | |
| 3 | Thick-billed Warbler | Acrocephalus aedon | |||
| 4 | Asian Desert Warbler | 2 | 2 | Sylvia nana | |
| 1 | Barred Warbler | Sylvia nisoria | |||
| 4 | Lesser Whitethroat | 2 | 5 | Sylvia curruca | |
| 4 | Common Whitethroat | 6 | 3 | Sylvia communis | |
| 2 | Arctic Warbler | 2 | 3 | Phylloscopus borealis | |
| 4 | Two-barred Greenish Warbler | 5 | 6 | Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus | |
| 4 | Pallas's Leaf Warbler | 5 | 4 | Phylloscopus proregulus | |
| 4 | Yellow-browed Warbler | 3 | 1 | Phylloscopus inornatus | |
| 1 | Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler | Phylloscopus humei | |||
| 1 | Sulphur-bellied Warbler | Phylloscopus griseolus | |||
| 4 | Dusky Warbler | 11 | 10 | Phylloscopus fuscatus | |
| 2 | Dark-sided Flycatcher | Muscicapa sibirica | |||
| 4 | Asian Brown Flycatcher | 4 | 1 | Muscicapa dauurica | |
| 2 | Spotted Flycatcher | 1 | 1 | Muscicapa striata | |
| 4 | Taiga Flycatcher | 1 | 2 | Ficedula albicilla | |
| 1 | Bearded Tit | Panurus biarmicus | |||
| 1 | Long-tailed Tit | Aegithalos caudatus | |||
| 4 | Willow Tit | 4 | 6 | Parus montanus | |
| 3 | Coal Tit | 5 | 6 | Parus ater | |
| 4 | Great Tit | 4 | 4 | Parus major | |
| 4 | Azure Tit | 3 | 3 | Parus cyanus | |
| 4 | Eurasian Nuthatch | 4 | 2 | Sitta europaea | |
| 3 | Wallcreeper | 2 | 1 | Tichodroma muraria | |
| 1 | Eurasian Treecreeper | Certhia familaris | |||
| 1 | White-crowned Penduline Tit | Remiz coronatus | |||
| 4 | Isabelline Shrike | 7 | 4 | Lanius isabellinus | |
| 4 | Brown Shrike | 6 | 3 | Lanius cristatus | |
| 4 | Steppe Grey Shrike | 3 | 4 | Lanius meridionalis pallidirostris | |
| 1 | Drongo sp | Dicrurus sp | |||
| 2 | Eurasian Jay | Garrulus glandarius | |||
| 4 | Henderson's Ground Jay | 3 | 7 | Podoces hendersoni | |
| 4 | Eurasian Magpie | 9 | 25 | Pica pica | |
| 1 | Azure-winged Magpie | Cyonopica cyanus | |||
| 3 | Spotted Nutcracker | 1 | 1 | Nucifraga caryocatactes | |
| 4 | Red-billed Chough | 12 | 50 | Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax | |
| 4 | Daurian Jackdaw | 9 | 50 | Corvus dauricus | |
| 2 | Rook | 2 | 150 | Corvus frugilegus | |
| 4 | Carrion Crow | 8 | 6 | Corvus corone | |
| 4 | Common Raven | 16 | 10 | Corvus corax | |
| 4 | Golden Oriole | 1 | 1 | Oriolus oriolus | |
| 3 | Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |||
| 4 | White-cheeked Starling | 5 | 3 | Sturnus cineraceus | |
| 2 | Rosy Starling | 2 | 14 | Sturnus roseus | |
| 4 | House Sparrow | 4 | 3 | Passer domesticus | |
| 4 | Eurasian Tree Sparrow | 13 | 20 | Passer montanus | |
| 4 | Saxaul Sparrow | 2 | 8 | Passer ammodendri | |
| 4 | Rock Sparrow | 8 | 10 | Petronia petronia | |
| 3 | White-winged Snowfinch | 2 | 20 | Montifringilla nivalis | |
| 4 | Père David's Snowfinch | 4 | 3 | Monifringilla davidiana | |
| 1 | Common Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | |||
| 1 | Eurasian Siskin | Carduelis spinus | |||
| 3 | Twite | 2 | 10 | Carduelis flavirostris | |
| 2 | Common Crossbill | 2 | 4 | Loxia curvirostra | |
| 4 | Mongolian Finch | 2 | 5 | Bucanetes mongolicus | |
| 4 | Common Rosefinch | 10 | 7 | Carpodacus erythrinus | |
| 3 | Beautiful Rosefinch | 2 | 4 | Carpodacus pulcherrimus | |
| 2 | Great Rosefinch | 1 | 2 | Carpodacus rubicilla | |
| 2 | Long-tailed Rosefinch | 1 | 2 | Uragus sibiricus | |
| 2 | Hawfinch | 4 | 2 | Coccothraustes coccothraustes | |
| 4 | Black-faced Bunting | 3 | 2 | Emberiza spodocephala | |
| 3 | Yellow-breasted Bunting | 1 | 2 | Emberiza aureola | |
| 4 | Pine Bunting | 7 | 10 | Emberiza leucocephalos | |
| 1 | Ortolan Bunting | Emberiza hortulana | |||
| 2 | Grey-necked Bunting | 2 | 2 | Emberiza buchanani | |
| 3 | Pallas's Reed Bunting | 1 | 2 | Emberiza pallasi | |
| 1 | Common Reed Bunting | Emberiza schoeniclus | |||
| 4 | Godlewski's Bunting | 2 | 1 | Emberiza godlewskii | |
| 1 | Chestnut-eared Bunting | 2 | 1 | Emberiza fucata |