Wawu Shan or Longcanggou Forest Park area:three extremely endemics: Grey-hooded Parrotbill, Emei Shan Liocichla and Sichuan Treecreeper.

Parrotbills in addition to Grey-hooded we should also see Great, Brown, Ashy-throated, Fulvous, Golden and Grey-headed.

Phylloscopus warblers:  no fewer than 17 species have occurred in the area! During our time here we should find Claudia’s Leaf (split from Blyth’s Leaf), Emei Leaf, Klossi’s Leaf (split from White-tailed), Large-billed Leaf, Ashy-throated, Buff-barred, Sichuan Leaf (split from Lemon-rumped) and Buff-throated Warblers, and perhaps also migrant Pallas’s Leaf and Yellow-browed Warblers heading for Siberia in early May.

Wawu is clearly also ‘bush warbler heaven’ and include Brownish-flanked, Chestnut-crowned, Aberrant, Yellowish-bellied, Grey-sided, Brown and the NEW endemic Sichuan Bush Warblers.

About four species of ‘golden-spectacled’ warblers occur on the mountain, with the endemic Plain-tailed Warbler at the base and the near-endemic Bianchi’s Warbler at the summit, while Grey-crowned Warbler (Seicercus tephrocephalus) and Emei Spectacled Warbler (S. omeiensis), the latter endemic to the region, occur at intermediate altitudes.

We also should see the near-endemic Lady Amherst’s Pheasant and Temminck’s Tragopan.

We should no problem to hear the endemic Chinese Bamboo Partridge but if goof luck enough can just see a pair waking across the road in lower area. Additional endemics and near-endemics and the others at Wawu include the pretty Chinese Blue Flycatcher (split from Blue-throated), the big Black-streaked Scimitar Babbler (from Spot-breasted Scimitar Babbler complex), Elliott’s Laughingthrush, the shy Red-winged Laughingthrush, the very confiding Grey-hooded Fulvetta (now a Chinese endemic following taxonomic reorganization, having been renamed from Streak-throated Fulvetta), Brown-capped (or Dusky) Fulvetta and White-collared Yuhina.

More others include: Crested (or Oriental) Honey Buzzard, Large Hawk-Cuckoo, Whistling Hawk-Cuckoo (split from Hodgson’s, and, together with the previous species, much easier to hear than to see), Oriental and Lesser Cuckoos, Asian Koel, Collared Owlet (more easily heard than seen), Oriental Scops Owl, Himalayan Swiftlet, Fork-tailed (or Pacific) Swift, Darjeeling and Bay Woodpeckers, Grey Wagtail, Himalayan Black Bulbul (of the striking white-headed form), Long-tailed Minivet, Brown Dipper, Rufous-breasted Accentor, White-browed Shortwing, Golden Bush Robin, White-tailed Robin, White-bellied Redstart, Grey Bushchat, Blue Whistling Thrush, Slaty-backed Forktail, Verditer, Ferruginous, Slaty-blue, Rufous-gorgeted and Grey-headed Flycatchers, Vivid Niltava, Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler, Pygmy Wren-Babbler, Black-faced Laughingthrush, Red-billed Leiothrix, White-browed Shrike-Babbler, Golden-breasted Fulvetta, Stripe-throated and Black-chinned Yuhinas, Rufous-vented, Coal and Green-backed Tits, the near-endemic Yellow-bellied Tit, Gould’s Sunbird, Japanese White-eye, Hair-crested Drongo, Blue Magpie, Large-billed Crow, Russet Sparrow, Dark-breasted and Dark-rumped Rosefinches, and the near-endemic Grey-headed Bullfinch.

We should also have chance for some other uncommon birds of the area include: Chinese Goshawk, Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon, Grey-winged Blackbird, White-throated Laughingthrush, Spotted Laughingthrush or the endemic Rusty Laughingthrush.

If we are really lucky, the little-known and seldom-seen Gold-fronted Fulvetta can be found in this area.