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Asian Countries - Comparative Birding Statistics
Asian Endemic Families List
Asian Endangered Species

Asian Birding Hotspots by Country


   Andaman/Nicobar
       Islands (pending)
....Japan ....Philippines
....Bangladesh ....Kazakhstan ....Russian Federation
....Bhutan ....Korea ....Siberia
....Brunei (pending)    Kyrgystan ....Singapore
....Cambodia ....Laos (pending) ....Sri Lanka
....China ....Malaysia ....Taiwan
....Hong Kong ....Mongolia ....Thailand
....India ....Myanmar (Burma) ....Tibet
....Indonesia ....Nepal ....Uzbekistan
....Pakistan ....Vietnam

For general information about birding in Asia, see the Oriental Bird Club.
This page does not identify the relative ranking of the birding "hotspots".
Click here to find out about the way that sites were identified.
 

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Asian Endemic Family List


Information on endemics is derived from Sibley & Monroe checklists and bird distribution lists in
Thayer's Birder's Diary - Version 2.05.
These bird families can only be found in Asia.

Ibisbills
Asian Barbets
Ioras
Leafbirds
Hypocolius
Rhabdornises

 

Asian Endangered Species


Information on endangered birds is derived from the IUCN Red List, Birdlife International, and supporting data bases developed by Ian Patton, of Merlin Species Watcher.

Breeding Birds

 Non-Breeding Birds

___ Anami Thrush
___ Anami Woodcock
___ Andaman Crake
___ Annam Partridge
___ Ashy Thrush
___ Ashy-breasted Flycatcher
___ Ashy-headed Laughingthrush
___ Azure-breasted Pitta
___ Baer's Pochard
___ Bagobo Babbler
___ Beautiful Nuthatch
___ Bengal Florican
___ Black Shama
___ Black-bellied Tern
___ Black-bibbed Cicadabird
___ Black-breasted Parrotbill
___ Black-faced Spoonbill
___ Black-hooded Coucal
___ Black-hooded
___ Laughingthrush
___ Black-necked Crane
___ Black-throated Blue Robin
___ Blakiston's Fish-Owl
___ Blue-capped Kingfisher
___ Blue-headed Racquet-tail
___ Blue-naped Parrot
___ Blue-winged Racquet-tail
___ Blyth's Kingfisher
___ Blyth's Tragopan
___ Bonin White-eye
___ Bornean Frogmouth
___ Bornean Ground-Cuckoo
___ Bornean Peacock-Pheasant
___ Bristled Grassbird
___ Brown Eared-Pheasant
___ Brown-banded (Luzon) Rail
___ Brown-capped Laughingthrush
___ Brown-chested 
___ Jungle-Flycatcher
___ Bulwer's Pheasant
___ Cabot's Tragopan
___ Cebu Flowerpecker
___ Celestial Monarch
___ Cheer Pheasant
___ Chestnut-breasted Partridge
___ Chestnut-headed Partridge
___ Chestnut-necklaced Partridge
___ Chinese Crested-Tern
___ Chinese Egret
___ Chinese Monal
___ Collared Laughingthrush
___ Corn Crake
___ Crested Argus
___ Crested Fireback
___ Crested Ibis
___ Crested Shelduck
___ Crestless Fireback
___ Cryptic Flycatcher
___ Dalmation Pelican
___ Dark-eared Brown-Dove
___ Dark-rumped Swift
___ Deignan's Babbler
___ Dulit Frogmouth
___ Edward's Pheasant
___ Elliot's Pheasant
___ Emei Shan Liocichla
___ Fairy Pitta
___ Falcated Wren-Babbler
___ Ferruginous Pochard
___ Flame-breasted Fruit-Dove
___ Flame-templed Babbler
___ Forest Owlet
___ Furtive Flycatcher
___ Germain's Peacock-Pheasant
___ Giant Ibis
___ Giant Nuthatch
___ Golden-fronted Fulvetta
___ Great Bustard
___ Great Philippine Eagle
___ Greater Adjutant
___ Greater Spotted Eagle
___ Green Avadavat
___ Green Peafowl
___ Green Racquet-tail
___ Green-billed Coucal
___ Grey Imperial-Pigeon
___ Grey-crowned Crocias
___ Grey-hooded Parrotbill
___ Grey-sided Thrush
___ Gurney's Pitta
___ Hainan Leaf-Warbler
___ Hainan Partridge
___ Himalayan Quail
___ Hooded Crane
___ Hooded Treepie
___ Ijima's Leaf-Warbler
___ Imperial Eagle
___ Imperial Pheasant
___ Indian Bustard
___ Indian Skimmer
___ Intermediate Parakeet
___ Isabela Oriole
___ Izu Thrush
___ Japanese Murrelet
___ Japanese Night-Heron
___ Jerdon's Babbler
___ Jerdon's Courser
___ Kashmir Flycatcher
___ Large Frogmouth
___ Lesser Adjutant
___ Lesser Florican
___ Lesser Kestrel
___ Lesser (Mindanao) Eagle-Owl
___ Little Slaty Flycatcher
___ Long-billed Bush-Warbler
___ Lidth's Rail
___ Luzon Scops-Owl
___ Luzon Striped-Babbler
___ Luzon Water-Redstart
___ Malayan Peacock-Pheasant
___ Manipur Bush-Quail
___ Marbled Teal
___ Marsh Babbler
___ Marsh Grassbird
___ Masked Finfoot
___ Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel
___ McGregor's Cuckooshrike
___ Melodious Babbler
___ Milky Stork
___ Mindanao Bleeding-heart
___ Mindanao Lorikeet
___ Mindanao Racquet-tail
___ Mindanao Scops-Owl
___ Mindanao Wattled Broadbill
___ Mindoro Bleeding-heart
___ Mindoro Hornbill
___ Mindoro Imperial-Pigeon
___ Mindoro Scops-Owl
___ Miniature Tit-Babbler
___ Montane (Luzon)Racquet-tail
___ Mountain Peacock-Pheasant
___ Mountain Serpent-Eagle
___ Mrs. Hume's Pheasant
___ Narcondam Hornbill
___ Negros Bleeding-heart
___ Negros Fruit-Dove
___ Negros Striped-Babbler
___ Nicobar Bulbul
___ Nicobar Scrubfowl
___ Okinawa Rail
___ Okinawa Woodpecker
___ Orange-necked Partridge
___ Oriental Stork
___ Palawan Flycatcher
___ Palawan Peacock-Pheasant
___ Palawan Scops-Owl
___ Palawan Striped-Babbler
___ Pale-backed Pigeon
___ Pale-capped Pigeon
___ Pallas's Fish-Eagle
___ Panay Striped-Babbler
___ Philippine Cockatoo
___ Philippine Dwarf Kingfisher
___ Philippine Eagle-Owl
___ Philippine Hawk-Eagle
___ Philippine Leafbird
___ Pink-headed Duck
___ Plain-pouched Hornbill
___ Rabor's Wren-Babbler
___ Red-collared Woodpecker
___ Red-crowned Crane
___ Red-eared Parrotfinch
___ Red-faced Malkoha
___ Reeves's Pheasant
___ Rueck's Blue-Flycatcher
___ Rufous-backed Bunting
___ Rufous-headed Hornbill
___ Rufous-headed Robin
___ Rufous-lored Kingfisher
___ Rufous-necked Hornbill
___ Rufous-throated Wren-Babbler
___ Rufous-vented Prinia
___ Rufous-vented Prinia
___ Rusty-bellied Shortwing
___ Rusty-throated Parrotbill
___ Rusty-throated Wren-Babbler
___ Saunder's Gull
___ Scaly-sided Merganser
___ Scarlet-collared
___ Flowerpecker
___ Sclater's Monal
___ Short-tailed Albatross
___ Short-tailed Frogmouth
___ Short-tailed Parrotbill
___ Short-tailed Scimitar-Babbler
___ Siamese Fireback
___ Sichuan Jay
___ Sichuan Partridge
___ Sichuan Wood-Owl
___ Sillem's Mountain-Finch
___ Silver Oriole
___ Silvery Kingfisher
___ Silvery Wood-Pigeon
___ Slaty-backed 
___ Jungle-Flycatcher
___ Snowy-cheeked 
___ Laughingthrush
___ Snowy-throated Babbler
___ Sociable Lapwing
___ Sooty Babbler
___ Spot-billed Pelican
___ Spotted Imperial-Pigeon
___ Sri Lanka (Ceylon) Magpie
___ Sri Lanka Whistling-Thrush
___ Sri Lanka Wood-Pigeon
___ Storm's Stork
___ Straw-headed Bulbul
___ Streak-banded Bulbul
___ Streaked Reed-Warbler
___ Sulu Bleeding-heart
___ Sulu Hornbill
___ Swamp Francolin
___ Swan Goose
___ Swinhoe's Rail
___ Tarictic or Visayan Hornbill
___ Tibetan Eared-Pheasant
___ Tibetan Rosefinch
___ Vaurie's Nightjar
___ Vietnamese Pheasant
___ Visayan Flowerpecker
___ Wallace's Hawk-Eagle
___ Ward's Trogon
___ Western Tragopan
___ Whiskered Flowerpecker
___ Whiskered Pitta
___ White Eared-Pheasant
___ White-bellied Heron
___ White-browed Bushchat
___ White-browed
___ Jungle-Flycatcher
___ White-browed Nuthatch
___ White-eyed River-Martin
___ White-fronted Scops-Owl
___ White-headed Duck
___ White-headed Hornbill
___ White-eared Night-Heron
___ White-fronted Scops-Owl
___ White-headed Duck
___ White-naped Crane
___ White-naped Tit
___ White-necklaced Partridge
___ White-shouldered Ibis
___ White-speckled 
___ Laughingthrush
___ White-shouldered Ibis
___ White-throated Bushchat
___ White-throated
___ Jungle-Flycatcher
___ White-winged Cuckooshrike
___ White-winged Duck
___ Whitehead's Swiftlet
___ Wood Snipe
___ Worcester's Buttonquail 
___ Wrinkled Hornbill
___ Xinjiang Ground-Jay
___ Yellow Bunting
___ Yellow Weaver
___ Yellow-billed Nuthatch
___ Yunnan Nuthatch
___ Baikal Teal
___ Bristle-thighed Curlew
___ Christmas Island Frigatebird
___ Lesser White-fronted Goose
___ Noordmann's Greenshank
___ Saunder's Gull
___ Scaly-sided Merganser
___ Siberian Crane
___ Spoonbill Sandpiper
___ Stellar's Eider
___ Stellar's Sea-Eagle
___ Swinhoe's Rail
___ Yellow Bunting

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