Birding in Japan: Birding in Taiwan 2024

The car park at the end of the mountain road is at 2560m above sea level and a good place to see high mountain birds,

BUT! the morning we were there it was covered with thick fog! 😭

And yet, we found a Mikado pheasant (mikado-kijiミカドキジ) foraging quietly under the trees just behind the sign.

We went a bit closer but he was just minding his own business.

beautiful tail-feathers!

Suddenly, noisy calls came from the fog - a flock of White-whiskered laughingthrushes (Taiwan-kimbane-gabichoタイワンキンバネガビチョウ) appeared from nowhere.

and started hopping on the ground around us.

A little shadow on the edge of the car park.

a male Collared bush robin! (Alisan-hitakiアリサンヒタキ)

In the fog it actually looked really blurred like this. Lucky we had an excellent guide like Ko-san to find little birds under this weather condition.

A flock of Black-throated tits (Zuaka-enagaズアカエナガ) flew into a nearby tree👍

Another Mikado pheasant was on the mountain path.

A female Collared bush robin in the bush:)

A juvenile Collared bush robin popped out and quickly back again.

Another male Collared bush robin

a Ferruginous flycatcher (miyama-hitakiミヤマヒタキ) perched on a cable but I failed to capture his whole body! argh!

Taiwan persimmon tree (kaki柿)

Photo-taking was almost impossible in the fog but we had a great morning birding walk in and around the car park.

It was a three-night birding trip with Ko-san and although the number of species we recorded during this trip is smaller than the previous visit in 2015 but we had a wonderful time with Ko-san and we'd like to come back in a different season to see different birds.

The posts of our 2015 trip are here ↓