amh2029
Wednesday 8th February 2006, 06:16
Hi,
I've been backpacking through S.E.Asia since December 2005 armed with just my trusty 8x25 Nikon III sportstar compacts. I've put a few posts up already but thought it would be nice to put them all together - and it helps me to keep a record of what i see. I list the lifer species for each country rather than repeat species - there is a lot of overlap as you can imagine.
Vietnam 12/12/05 - 06/01/06:
Cuc Phoung NP
Just spent a couple of days at this fantastic nature reserve. Cycled the 65 km from Ninh Binh on a rickety bicycle with a basket on the front, and for any of you who havent cycled on vietnam's highways, believe me it's white-knuckle stuff. If you plan to go there, I recommend going sunday afternoon. That's what I did and I had the reserve all to myself - really. I booked a guide, and we met each morning at 6.00am - didn't see another soul for three days. You can stay at the reserve reception centre and walk/drive by motorbike into the reserve from there, or you can stay at the reserve centre which is 18km into the reserve. It's a beautiful spot surrounded by primary forest. There is accommodation there - pillar houses and more posh huts if you want to splash out.
My guide was great, and one of only two rangers at the park who have knowledge of the birds there and can speak good english. So, in just one full day of birding my list ran as follows:
chinese pond heron
chinese egret
grey bushchat
grey backed shrike
brown shrike
white breasted waterhen
oriental magpie robin
black drongo
forest wagtail
olive backed pipit
red whiskered bulbul
sooty headed bulbul
black bulbul
black headed bulbul
black crested bulbul
puff throated bulbul
scarlet backed flowerpecker
javan cuckoo shrike (?)
black winged cuckooshrike
grey capped pygmy woodpecker
lesser yellow nape
rufous woodpecker
scaly thrush
snowy browed flycatcher
bar winged flycatcher
red throated flycatcher
rufous tailed tailorbird
green eared babbet
red jungle fowl
rufous capped babbler
black capped babbler
sooty capped babbler
sultan tit (WOW)
white rumped shama
pied falconet (a first for the reserve)
white throated kingfisher
dusky crag martin
ratchet tailed treepie
My guide was Tran Van Bay, and if you need any info about the reserve and its birds you can email him at: tranvanbayocp@yahoo.com
andrew
Na Trang coast line:
brown shrike
black capped kingfisher
olive backed sunbird
blue tailed bee eater
asian palm swift
stripe throated bulbul
Cat Tien NP
Another amazing NP - Thanks to David Easton and Hanno for their comments in earlier postings for info on this park.
black napped oriole
red breasted parakeet
black hooded oriole
greater racket tailed drongo
black and red broadbill
blue winged leafbird
crimson sunbird
asian fairy bluebird
green billed malkoha
comon iora
oriental pied hornbill
purple swamphen
dusky broadbill
stork billed kingfisher
green peafowl
lesser adjutant
woolly necked stork
red wattled lapwing
black crowned night heron
pied kingfisher
hill myna
red collared dove
dollar bird
greater coucal
Cambodia 06/01/06 - 17/01/06
Bit of a rest from birding but did manage a few new species:
yellow vented bulbul
common myna
coppersmith barbet
black baza
lineated barbet
cotton pyg,y goose
Thailand 23/01/06
Still here and loving it - what a place for birds - 77 NPs in total.
Khao Yai NP
white vented myna
greater flameback
laced woodpecker
blue eared barbet
great hornbill
scarlet minivet
ashy minivet
shikra
scaly breasted partridge
wreathed hornbill
blue rock thrush
arctic warbler
asian brown flycatcher
blue crowned hanging parrot
golden fronted leafbird
thick billed green pigeon
barred cuckoo dove
rosy minivet
javan pond heron
mountain imperial pigeon
barwinged flycatcher shrike
chestnut flanked white eye
ashy woodswallow
lesser racket tailed drongo
little cormorant
moustached barbet
siberian blue robin
coral billed ground cuckoo
blue pitta
orange headed thrush
yellow vented flowerpecker
spotted dove
yellow browed warbler
commn green magpie
stripped tit babbler
indian roller
hill blue flycatcher
banded broadbill
dark necked flycatcher
mountain hawk eagle
lesser necklaced laughing thrush
emerald dove
white crowned forktail
orange breasted trogon
black napped monarch
grey headed canary flycatcher
abbot babbler
little spiderhunter
white crested laughing thrush
hainan blue flycatcher
black laughing thrush
gray slated woodpecker
great eared nightjar
grey nightjar
large tailed nightjar
streaked throated woodpecker?
Ko Tao
Diving not birding - plenty of fish but also:
pacific reef egret
white bellied sea eagle
ornage bellied flowerpecker
More to come as I go along...
I've been backpacking through S.E.Asia since December 2005 armed with just my trusty 8x25 Nikon III sportstar compacts. I've put a few posts up already but thought it would be nice to put them all together - and it helps me to keep a record of what i see. I list the lifer species for each country rather than repeat species - there is a lot of overlap as you can imagine.
Vietnam 12/12/05 - 06/01/06:
Cuc Phoung NP
Just spent a couple of days at this fantastic nature reserve. Cycled the 65 km from Ninh Binh on a rickety bicycle with a basket on the front, and for any of you who havent cycled on vietnam's highways, believe me it's white-knuckle stuff. If you plan to go there, I recommend going sunday afternoon. That's what I did and I had the reserve all to myself - really. I booked a guide, and we met each morning at 6.00am - didn't see another soul for three days. You can stay at the reserve reception centre and walk/drive by motorbike into the reserve from there, or you can stay at the reserve centre which is 18km into the reserve. It's a beautiful spot surrounded by primary forest. There is accommodation there - pillar houses and more posh huts if you want to splash out.
My guide was great, and one of only two rangers at the park who have knowledge of the birds there and can speak good english. So, in just one full day of birding my list ran as follows:
chinese pond heron
chinese egret
grey bushchat
grey backed shrike
brown shrike
white breasted waterhen
oriental magpie robin
black drongo
forest wagtail
olive backed pipit
red whiskered bulbul
sooty headed bulbul
black bulbul
black headed bulbul
black crested bulbul
puff throated bulbul
scarlet backed flowerpecker
javan cuckoo shrike (?)
black winged cuckooshrike
grey capped pygmy woodpecker
lesser yellow nape
rufous woodpecker
scaly thrush
snowy browed flycatcher
bar winged flycatcher
red throated flycatcher
rufous tailed tailorbird
green eared babbet
red jungle fowl
rufous capped babbler
black capped babbler
sooty capped babbler
sultan tit (WOW)
white rumped shama
pied falconet (a first for the reserve)
white throated kingfisher
dusky crag martin
ratchet tailed treepie
My guide was Tran Van Bay, and if you need any info about the reserve and its birds you can email him at: tranvanbayocp@yahoo.com
andrew
Na Trang coast line:
brown shrike
black capped kingfisher
olive backed sunbird
blue tailed bee eater
asian palm swift
stripe throated bulbul
Cat Tien NP
Another amazing NP - Thanks to David Easton and Hanno for their comments in earlier postings for info on this park.
black napped oriole
red breasted parakeet
black hooded oriole
greater racket tailed drongo
black and red broadbill
blue winged leafbird
crimson sunbird
asian fairy bluebird
green billed malkoha
comon iora
oriental pied hornbill
purple swamphen
dusky broadbill
stork billed kingfisher
green peafowl
lesser adjutant
woolly necked stork
red wattled lapwing
black crowned night heron
pied kingfisher
hill myna
red collared dove
dollar bird
greater coucal
Cambodia 06/01/06 - 17/01/06
Bit of a rest from birding but did manage a few new species:
yellow vented bulbul
common myna
coppersmith barbet
black baza
lineated barbet
cotton pyg,y goose
Thailand 23/01/06
Still here and loving it - what a place for birds - 77 NPs in total.
Khao Yai NP
white vented myna
greater flameback
laced woodpecker
blue eared barbet
great hornbill
scarlet minivet
ashy minivet
shikra
scaly breasted partridge
wreathed hornbill
blue rock thrush
arctic warbler
asian brown flycatcher
blue crowned hanging parrot
golden fronted leafbird
thick billed green pigeon
barred cuckoo dove
rosy minivet
javan pond heron
mountain imperial pigeon
barwinged flycatcher shrike
chestnut flanked white eye
ashy woodswallow
lesser racket tailed drongo
little cormorant
moustached barbet
siberian blue robin
coral billed ground cuckoo
blue pitta
orange headed thrush
yellow vented flowerpecker
spotted dove
yellow browed warbler
commn green magpie
stripped tit babbler
indian roller
hill blue flycatcher
banded broadbill
dark necked flycatcher
mountain hawk eagle
lesser necklaced laughing thrush
emerald dove
white crowned forktail
orange breasted trogon
black napped monarch
grey headed canary flycatcher
abbot babbler
little spiderhunter
white crested laughing thrush
hainan blue flycatcher
black laughing thrush
gray slated woodpecker
great eared nightjar
grey nightjar
large tailed nightjar
streaked throated woodpecker?
Ko Tao
Diving not birding - plenty of fish but also:
pacific reef egret
white bellied sea eagle
ornage bellied flowerpecker
More to come as I go along...