Cumulative checklist
with James Lidster as leader
- Column A = Number of tours out of five on which this species has been recorded.
- Column B = Number of days this species was seen on the 2009 tour.
- Column C =Maximum daily count for this species on the 2009 tour.
- Column D = H= Heard only
| A | B | C | D | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black-throated Diver | Gavia arctica | |||
| 5 | Great Crested Grebe | 6 | 21 | Podiceps cristatus | |
| 4 | Slavonian Grebe | 3 | 6 | Podiceps auritus | |
| 5 | Black-necked Grebe | 2 | 20 | Podiceps nigricollis | |
| 5 | Great Cormorant | 4 | 1000 | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
| 1 | Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |||
| 1 | Little' Bittern sp | Ixobrychus sp | |||
| 1 | Chinese Pond Heron | Ardeola bacchus | |||
| 5 | Great White Egret | 2 | 2 | Egretta alba | |
| 1 | Intermediate Egret | Mesophoyx intermedia | |||
| 5 | Grey Heron | 5 | 26 | Ardea cinerea | |
| 5 | Black Stork | 1 | 1 | Ciconia nigra | |
| 5 | Eurasian Spoonbill | 4 | 42 | Platalea leucorodia | |
| 3 | Mute Swan | Cygnus olor | |||
| 5 | Whooper Swan | 4 | 10 | Cygnus cygnus | |
| 1 | Bewick's Swan | Cygnus columbianus | |||
| 2 | Bean Goose | Anser fabalis | |||
| 5 | Greylag Goose | 4 | 102 | Anser anser | |
| 1 | Eurasian White-fronted Goose | 2 | 1 | Anser albifrons | |
| 5 | Bar-headed Goose | 6 | 16 | Anser indicus | |
| 5 | Swan Goose | 6 | 58 | Anser cygnoides | |
| 5 | Ruddy Shelduck | 11 | 73 | Tadorna ferruginea | |
| 5 | Common Shelduck | 6 | 35 | Tadorna tadorna | |
| 5 | Eurasian Wigeon | 7 | 23 | Anas penelope | |
| 5 | Gadwall | 6 | 50 | Anas strepera | |
| 1 | Falcated Duck | 2 | 2 | Anas falcata | |
| 5 | Common Teal | 5 | 33 | Anas crecca | |
| 5 | Mallard | 6 | 46 | Anas platyrhynchos | |
| 5 | Northern Pintail | 4 | 14 | Anas acuta | |
| 5 | Garganey | 6 | 70 | Anas querquedula | |
| 5 | Northern Shoveler | 5 | 56 | Anas clypeata | |
| 5 | Red-crested Pochard | 3 | 35 | Netta rufina | |
| 5 | Common Pochard | 6 | 104 | Aythya ferina | |
| 5 | Ferruginous Duck | 3 | 3 | Aythya nyroca | |
| 1 | Baer's Pochard | Aythya baeri | |||
| 5 | Tufted Duck | 6 | 29 | Aythya fuligula | |
| 4 | Asiatic White-winged Scoter | 2 | 13 | Melanitta deglandi/stejnegeri | |
| 4 | Common Goldeneye | 4 | 41 | Bucephala clangula | |
| 5 | Goosander | 3 | 17 | Mergus merganser | |
| 1 | Smew | Mergellus albellus | |||
| 4 | Oriental Honey Buzzard | Pernis ptilorhynchus | |||
| 5 | Black Kite | 9 | 25 | Milvus migrans lineatus | |
| 2 | White-tailed Eagle | Haliaeetus albicilla | |||
| 5 | Pallas's Fish Eagle | 3 | 14 | Haliaeetus leucoryphus | |
| 4 | Lammergeier | 3 | 2 | Gypaetus barbatus | |
| 4 | Himalayan Griffon Vulture | 3 | 1 | Gyps himalayensis | |
| 4 | Griffon Vulture sp | 3 | 6 | Gyps fulvus | |
| 5 | Black Vulture | 11 | 6 | Aegypius monachus | |
| 2 | Eastern Marsh Harrier | 1 | 2 | Circus spilonotus | |
| 4 | Western Marsh Harrier | 2 | 5 | Circus aeruginosus | |
| 1 | Hen Harrier | Circus cyaneus | |||
| 4 | Northern Goshawk | 2 | 2 | Accipiter gentilis | |
| 4 | Eurasian Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | |||
| 1 | Japanese Sparrowhawk | 3 | 2 | Accipiter gularis | |
| 5 | Upland Buzzard | 10 | 9 | Buteo hemilasius | |
| 5 | Steppe Eagle | 6 | 2 | Aquila nipalensis | |
| 5 | Golden Eagle | 4 | 1 | Aquila chrysaetos | |
| 5 | Booted Eagle | 4 | 2 | Aquila pennatus | |
| 5 | Lesser Kestrel | 3 | 4 | Falco naumanni | |
| 5 | Common Kestrel | 4 | 3 | Falco tinnunculus | |
| 5 | Amur Falcon | 6 | 1 | Falco amurensis | |
| 5 | Eurasian Hobby | 4 | 1 | Falco subbuteo | |
| 5 | Saker Falcon | 4 | 6 | Falco cherrug | |
| 3 | Altai Snowcock | 1 | 4 | Tetraogallus altaicus | |
| 1 | Black Grouse | Tetrao tetrix | |||
| 3 | Chukar | 2 | 2 | Alectoris chukar | |
| 3 | Daurian Partridge | Perdix dauuricae | |||
| 1 | Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | |||
| 1 | Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | |||
| 1 | Spotted Crake | 1 | 2 | H | Porzana porzana |
| 3 | Baillon's Crake | Porzana pusilla | |||
| 5 | Common Coot | 3 | 28 | Fulica atra | |
| 2 | Common Crane | Grus grus | |||
| 4 | White-naped Crane | 2 | 6 | Grus vipio | |
| 5 | Demoiselle Crane | 12 | 50 | Anthropoides virgo | |
| 5 | Black-winged Stilt | 2 | 4 | Himantopus himantopus | |
| 5 | Avocet | 6 | 88 | Recurvirostra avosetta | |
| 5 | Little Ringed Plover | 10 | 12 | Charadrius dubius | |
| 5 | Kentish Plover | 7 | 30 | Charadrius alexandrinus | |
| 5 | Greater Sand Plover | 7 | 15 | Charadrius leschenaultii | |
| 1 | Lesser Sand Plover | 2 | 2 | Charadrius mongolus | |
| 4 | Oriental Plover | 3 | 8 | Charadrius veredus | |
| 4 | Pacific Golden Plover | 1 | 3 | Pluvialis fulva | |
| 2 | Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatorola | |||
| 1 | Grey-headed Lapwing | Vanellus cinereus | |||
| 5 | Northern Lapwing | 8 | 37 | Vanellus vanellus | |
| 2 | Red-necked Stint | Calidris ruficollis | |||
| 4 | Little Stint | 1 | 1 | Calidris minuta | |
| 2 | Temminck's Stint | Calidris temminckii | |||
| 3 | Long-toed Stint | 1 | 1 | Calidris subminuta | |
| 1 | Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | |||
| 1 | Dunlin | Calidris alpina | |||
| 2 | Sanderling | Calidris alba | |||
| 1 | Broad-billed Sandpiper | Limicola falcinellus | |||
| 2 | Ruff | 1 | 1 | Philomachus pugnax | |
| 5 | Common Snipe | 3 | 25 | Gallinago gallinago | |
| 2 | Asian Dowitcher | Limnodromus semipalmatus | |||
| 5 | Black-tailed Godwit | 5 | 15 | Limosa limosa | |
| 2 | Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |||
| 2 | Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | |||
| 2 | Spotted Redshank | 1 | 1 | Tringa erythropus | |
| 5 | Common Redshank | 6 | 30 | Tringa totanus | |
| 5 | Marsh Sandpiper | 4 | 9 | Tringa stagnatilis | |
| 4 | Common Greenshank | 1 | 1 | Tringa nebularia | |
| 4 | Wood Sandpiper | 2 | 3 | Tringa glareola | |
| 1 | Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | |||
| 5 | Common Sandpiper | 1 | 1 | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| 3 | Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |||
| 2 | Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | |||
| 5 | Pallas's Gull | 3 | 78 | Larus ichthyaetus | |
| 4 | Relict Gull | Larus relictus | |||
| 2 | Little Gull | Larus minutus | |||
| 3 | Brown-headed Gull | 1 | 1 | Larus brunicephalus | |
| 5 | Black-headed Gull | 6 | 30 | Larus ridibundus | |
| 5 | Mongolian Gull | 6 | 196 | Larus mongolicus | |
| 5 | Gull-billed Tern | 5 | 27 | Gelochelidon nilotica | |
| 5 | Caspian Tern | 3 | 40 | Sterna caspia | |
| 5 | Common Tern | 9 | 588 | Sterna hirundo | |
| 3 | Little Tern | Sterna albifrons | |||
| 3 | Whiskered Tern | 2 | 1 | Chlidonias hybridus | |
| 3 | Black Tern | 4 | 25 | Chlidonias niger | |
| 5 | White-winged Black Tern | 6 | 226 | Chlidonias leucopterus | |
| 5 | Pallas's Sandgrouse | 10 | 236 | Syrrhaptes paradoxus | |
| 5 | Rock Dove | 9 | 20 | Columba livia | |
| 5 | Hill Pigeon | 3 | 7 | Columba rupestris | |
| 5 | Eurasian Collared Dove | 4 | 4 | Streptopelia decaocto | |
| 1 | Oriental Turtle Dove | Streptopelia orientalis | |||
| 1 | Red Collared Dove | Streptopelia tranquebarica | |||
| 5 | Common Cuckoo | 6 | 5 | Cuculus canorus | |
| 5 | Oriental Cuckoo | 2 | 1 | Cuculus saturatus | |
| 1 | Eurasian Eagle Owl | Bubo bubo | |||
| 4 | Little Owl | 1 | 1 | Athene nocuta | |
| 3 | Long-eared Owl | Asio otus | |||
| 1 | Eurasian Scops Owl | Otus scops | |||
| 2 | European Nightjar | 1 | 1 | H | Caprimulgus europaeus |
| 5 | Common Swift | 10 | 60 | Apus apus | |
| 5 | Pacific Swift | 12 | 100 | Apus pacificus | |
| 5 | Hoopoe | 8 | 3 | Upupa epops | |
| 5 | Eurasian Wryneck | 1 | 1 | Jynx torquilla | |
| 5 | Grey-headed Woodpecker | 1 | 1 | Picus canus | |
| 5 | Black Woodpecker | 1 | 2 | Dryocopus maritus | |
| 3 | White-backed Woodpecker | Dendrocopos leucotos | |||
| 1 | Great spotted Woodpecker | Dendrocopus major | |||
| 5 | Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | 1 | 1 | Dendrocopos minor | |
| 1 | Three-toed Woodpecker | Picoides tridactylus | |||
| 5 | Mongolian Lark | 7 | 10 | Melanocorypha mongolica | |
| 5 | Lesser Short-toed Lark | 11 | 50 | Calandrella rufescens | |
| 4 | Crested Lark | Galerida cristata | |||
| 5 | Skylark | 7 | 10 | Alauda arvensis | |
| 5 | Horned Lark | 11 | 100 | Eremorphila alpestris | |
| 5 | Pale Sand Martin | 7 | 30 | Riparia diluta | |
| 5 | Eurasian Crag Martin | 4 | 30 | Ptyonoprogne rupestris | |
| 5 | Barn Swallow | 10 | 10 | Hirundo rustica | |
| 5 | House Martin | 6 | 10 | Delichon urbica | |
| 5 | Richard's Pipit | 4 | 10 | Anthus richardi | |
| 5 | Blyth's Pipit | 4 | 7 | Anthus godlewskii | |
| 5 | Olive-backed Pipit | 2 | 2 | Anthus hodgsoni | |
| 1 | Tree Pipit | Anthus trivialis | |||
| 4 | Water Pipit | 1 | 1 | Anthus spinoletta | |
| 3 | Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | |||
| 1 | Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava leucocephala | |||
| 5 | Citrine Wagtail | 6 | 4 | Motacilla citreola | |
| 5 | Grey Wagtail | 4 | 2 | Motacilla cinerea | |
| 5 | White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |||
| 5 | Baikal' White Wagtail | 4 | 10 | Motacilla alba baicalensis | |
| 4 | Amur' White Wagtail | 5 | 2 | Motacilla alba leucopsis | |
| 1 | Masked' White Wagtail | Motacilla alba personata | |||
| 4 | Alpine Accentor | 1 | 2 | Prunella collaris | |
| 5 | Brown Accentor | 1 | 4 | Prunella fulvescens | |
| 4 | Kozlov's Accentor | 2 | 5 | Prunella koslowi | |
| 5 | Siberian Rubythroat | 3 | 2 | Luscinia calliope | |
| 3 | Red-flanked Bluetail | Tarsiger cyanurus | |||
| 5 | Black Redstart | 1 | 25 | Phoenicurus ochruros | |
| 4 | Common Redstart | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | |||
| 5 | Daurian Redstart | 1 | 1 | Phoenicurus auroreus | |
| 3 | Siberian Stonechat | Saxicola maurus | |||
| 5 | Northern Wheatear | 5 | 6 | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
| 5 | Isabelline Wheatear | 11 | 30 | Oenanthe isabellina | |
| 5 | Pied Wheatear | 2 | 4 | Oenanthe pleschanka | |
| 5 | Desert Wheatear | 10 | 6 | Oenanthe deserti | |
| 5 | Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush | 3 | 2 | Monticola saxatilis | |
| 5 | Red-throated Thrush | 1 | 2 | Turdus ruficollis | |
| 1 | Eyebrowed Thrush | Turdus obscurus | |||
| 1 | Chinese Bush Warbler | Bradypterus tacsanowskius | |||
| 2 | Savi's Warbler | Locustella luscinoides | |||
| 5 | Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler | 5 | 8 | Locustella certhiola | |
| 1 | Lanceolated Warbler | Locustella lanceolata | |||
| 4 | Paddyfield Warbler | 4 | 3 | Acrocephalus agricola | |
| 1 | Blyth's Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus dumetorum | |||
| 5 | Oriental Reed Warbler | 1 | 2 | Acrocephalus orientalis | |
| 4 | Thick-billed Warbler | 6 | 15 | Acrocephalus aedon | |
| 5 | Asian Desert Warbler | 3 | 5 | Sylvia nana | |
| 1 | Barred Warbler | Sylvia nisoria | |||
| 5 | Lesser Whitethroat | 2 | 4 | Sylvia curruca | |
| 5 | Common Whitethroat | 1 | 2 | Sylvia communis | |
| 3 | Arctic Warbler | 1 | 9 | Phylloscopus borealis | |
| 5 | Two-barred Greenish Warbler | 4 | 6 | Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus | |
| 5 | Pallas's Leaf Warbler | 3 | 20 | Phylloscopus proregulus | |
| 5 | Yellow-browed Warbler | 1 | 1 | Phylloscopus inornatus | |
| 1 | Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler | Phylloscopus humei | |||
| 2 | Sulphur-bellied Warbler | 1 | 1 | Phylloscopus griseolus | |
| 5 | Dusky Warbler | 5 | 50 | Phylloscopus fuscatus | |
| 2 | Dark-sided Flycatcher | Muscicapa sibirica | |||
| 5 | Asian Brown Flycatcher | 3 | 6 | Muscicapa dauurica | |
| 2 | Yellow-breasted Tit | Parus flavipectus | |||
| 5 | Taiga Flycatcher | 3 | 1 | Ficedula albicilla | |
| 1 | Bearded Tit | Panurus biarmicus | |||
| 1 | Long-tailed Tit | Aegithalos caudatus | |||
| 5 | Willow Tit | 1 | 2 | Parus montanus | |
| 3 | Coal Tit | Parus ater | |||
| 5 | Great Tit | 2 | 2 | Parus major | |
| 5 | Azure Tit | 2 | 4 | Parus cyanus | |
| 4 | Eurasian Nuthatch | Sitta europaea | |||
| 4 | Wallcreeper | 1 | 2 | Tichodroma muraria | |
| 1 | Eurasian Treecreeper | Certhia familaris | |||
| 1 | White-crowned Penduline Tit | Remiz coronatus | |||
| 5 | Isabelline Shrike | 8 | 6 | Lanius isabellinus | |
| 5 | Brown Shrike | 2 | 4 | Lanius cristatus | |
| 5 | Steppe Grey Shrike | 1 | 3 | Lanius meridionalis pallidirostris | |
| 1 | Drongo sp | Dicrurus sp | |||
| 2 | Eurasian Jay | Garrulus glandarius | |||
| 5 | Henderson's Ground Jay | 2 | 6 | Podoces hendersoni | |
| 5 | Eurasian Magpie | 4 | 15 | Pica pica | |
| 1 | Azure-winged Magpie | Cyonopica cyanus | |||
| 5 | Red-billed Chough | 6 | 50 | Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax | |
| 5 | Daurian Jackdaw | 5 | 70 | Corvus dauricus | |
| 3 | Rook | 1 | 2 | Corvus frugilegus | |
| 5 | Carrion Crow | 2 | 4 | Corvus corone | |
| 5 | Common Raven | 10 | 20 | Corvus corax | |
| 4 | Golden Oriole | Oriolus oriolus | |||
| 3 | Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |||
| 5 | White-cheeked Starling | 2 | 8 | Sturnus cineraceus | |
| 3 | Rosy Starling | 1 | 2 | Sturnus roseus | |
| 5 | House Sparrow | 5 | 6 | Passer domesticus | |
| 5 | Eurasian Tree Sparrow | 13 | 50 | Passer montanus | |
| 5 | Saxaul Sparrow | 1 | 2 | Passer ammodendri | |
| 5 | Rock Sparrow | 6 | 4 | Petronia petronia | |
| 4 | White-winged Snowfinch | 2 | 10 | Montifringilla nivalis | |
| 5 | Père David's Snowfinch | 2 | 2 | Monifringilla davidiana | |
| 1 | Common Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | |||
| 4 | Twite | 1 | 2 | Carduelis flavirostris | |
| 3 | Common Crossbill | 1 | 1 | Loxia curvirostra | |
| 5 | Mongolian Finch | 6 | 500 | Bucanetes mongolicus | |
| 5 | Common Rosefinch | 8 | 10 | Carpodacus erythrinus | |
| 4 | Beautiful Rosefinch | 1 | 6 | Carpodacus pulcherrimus | |
| 2 | Great Rosefinch | Carpodacus rubicilla | |||
| 3 | Long-tailed Rosefinch | 1 | 3 | Uragus sibiricus | |
| 3 | Hawfinch | 4 | 4 | Coccothraustes coccothraustes | |
| 5 | Black-faced Bunting | 3 | 2 | Emberiza spodocephala | |
| 3 | Yellow-breasted Bunting | Emberiza aureola | |||
| 5 | Pine Bunting | 1 | 4 | Emberiza leucocephalos | |
| 1 | Ortolan Bunting | Emberiza hortulana | |||
| 3 | Grey-necked Bunting | 1 | 1 | Emberiza buchanani | |
| 3 | Pallas's Reed Bunting | Emberiza pallasi | |||
| 1 | Common Reed Bunting | Emberiza schoeniclus | |||
| 5 | Godlewski's Bunting | 1 | 15 | Emberiza godlewskii | |
| 2 | Chestnut-eared Bunting | 1 | 1 | Emberiza fucata |