Sichuan Province – Qingcheng Hau Shan, Tangjiahe and Wanglang NNR November 2007 by John and Jemi Holmes 四川省 青城后山 唐家河／王朗国家级自然保护区 2007年11月 孔思义 黄亚萍
 
Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve (TJH)唐家河国家级自然保护区
Takin, Tangjiahe NNR (Nov 2007)
 
Situated in the Min mountains 岷山山脉, most of Tangjiahe’s birding is between 1500m and 2,000m. Endemics include Golden Pheasant and Slaty Bunting. TJH is a good site for mammals such as Takin and Chinese Muntjac. Rusty-throated Parrotbill was rediscovered at Tangjiahe after an absence of twenty years in June 2007. (Bjorn Anderson has successfully “twitched” these parrotbills; - a pdf trip report can be downloaded from www.travellingbirder.com.) The parrotbill site requires a hike several hundred metres uphill at the end of the Motianling 摩天岭 road (the right hand fork), which we didn’t have the time or the equipment for on this visit.http://www.travellingbirder.comshapeimage_4_link_0
Golden Pheasant, Tangjiahe NNR (Nov 2007)
 
Access The direct bus for Pingwu 平武县 leaves Chengdu’s Zhao Jue Temple bus Station 成都 昭觉寺车站 at 09:00. If you tell the driver or his co-driver “Tangjiahe” they’ll know where to drop you off, the junction is about 30km down-river from Pingwu. Minivan drivers hang around at the road junction. We paid RMB 200 to one of them to be taken to Tangjiahe HQs. The road to Qingxi 青溪 was under construction and a bit muddy in Nov. 2007.
Sooty Tit
Vinous-throated Parrotbill
 
Black-faced Laughingthrush, Tangjiahe NNR