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<blockquote data-quote="Larry Sweetland" data-source="post: 1165111" data-attributes="member: 27337"><p><strong>The Gibbon experience</strong></p><p></p><p>From Luang Phrabang we travelled by boat for two days up the Mekong to the Thai border, a very pleasant journey. We saw 7 <strong>Jerdon's Buschats </strong>on the first day and 3 on the second. <strong>Small Pratincoles </strong> and <strong>Red-rumped Swallows</strong> numbered in the hundreds in places.</p><p></p><p>We were all set to cross the border, when we discovered there had been a cancellation on the normally heavily booked Gibbon Experience, so we jumped at the chance. This is a package where for 100 pounds you spend 2 nights in tree houses high in the canopy of trees on forested ridge tops in a large area of excellent forest in northern Laos. The only way into these tree houses is on Zip lines, so you get to "be" a hornbill, "flying" from ridge-top to ridge-top on a pulley on a wire, sometimes 50 or more metres in the air for up to nearly half a km over the jungle below. </p><p></p><p>From the Tree house abodes you get to look down on canopy birds, eg <strong>Brown Hornbill</strong>, <strong>Dusky Broadbill </strong>and <strong>Long-tailed Broadbill ! </strong>. Feeding parties go past closely at eye-level. It's mindblowing, but not for anyone who's scared of hights. I don't know what altitude the forest is at, or if it's been explored much for birds. I'd recommend tree house 5. On the downside, it was a bit frustrating not being able to work the area effectively on the ground, as you have to trek at too fast a pace with a group of people . I couldn't follow up interesting probables and weird calls.</p><p></p><p>Other highlights included finally catching up with <strong>Pale Blue Flycatcher</strong> (more distinctive than I was expecting in the flesh compared to Verditer), <strong>Indian </strong> and <strong>Drongo Cuckoos</strong>, <strong>Rosy Minivet</strong>, <strong>Rufous Woodpecker</strong>, <strong>Pied Falconet</strong> (in the clearing between tree houses 5 and 4), the first <strong>Ashy Bulbul, Velvet-fronted Nuthatch</strong>, and <strong>Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch</strong> of the trip etc. I noted 40 species from tree house 5 over coffee ! At night something sounded like <strong>Mountain Scops Owl</strong> unless there is a similar sounding frog in the area. Other birds included <strong>Scaly-breasted Partridge</strong>, <strong>Hainan Blue Flycatcher</strong>, <strong>Thick-billed </strong>and <strong>Green Imperial Pigeons</strong>, <strong>Yellow-bellied Warbler</strong>, <strong>Brown-cheeked Fulvetta, White-bellied Yuhina </strong>etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Larry Sweetland, post: 1165111, member: 27337"] [b]The Gibbon experience[/b] From Luang Phrabang we travelled by boat for two days up the Mekong to the Thai border, a very pleasant journey. We saw 7 [B]Jerdon's Buschats [/B]on the first day and 3 on the second. [B]Small Pratincoles [/B] and [B]Red-rumped Swallows[/B] numbered in the hundreds in places. We were all set to cross the border, when we discovered there had been a cancellation on the normally heavily booked Gibbon Experience, so we jumped at the chance. This is a package where for 100 pounds you spend 2 nights in tree houses high in the canopy of trees on forested ridge tops in a large area of excellent forest in northern Laos. The only way into these tree houses is on Zip lines, so you get to "be" a hornbill, "flying" from ridge-top to ridge-top on a pulley on a wire, sometimes 50 or more metres in the air for up to nearly half a km over the jungle below. From the Tree house abodes you get to look down on canopy birds, eg [B]Brown Hornbill[/B], [B]Dusky Broadbill [/B]and [B]Long-tailed Broadbill ! [/B]. Feeding parties go past closely at eye-level. It's mindblowing, but not for anyone who's scared of hights. I don't know what altitude the forest is at, or if it's been explored much for birds. I'd recommend tree house 5. On the downside, it was a bit frustrating not being able to work the area effectively on the ground, as you have to trek at too fast a pace with a group of people . I couldn't follow up interesting probables and weird calls. Other highlights included finally catching up with [B]Pale Blue Flycatcher[/B] (more distinctive than I was expecting in the flesh compared to Verditer), [B]Indian [/B] and [B]Drongo Cuckoos[/B], [B]Rosy Minivet[/B], [B]Rufous Woodpecker[/B], [B]Pied Falconet[/B] (in the clearing between tree houses 5 and 4), the first [B]Ashy Bulbul, Velvet-fronted Nuthatch[/B], and [B]Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch[/B] of the trip etc. I noted 40 species from tree house 5 over coffee ! At night something sounded like [B]Mountain Scops Owl[/B] unless there is a similar sounding frog in the area. Other birds included [B]Scaly-breasted Partridge[/B], [B]Hainan Blue Flycatcher[/B], [B]Thick-billed [/B]and [B]Green Imperial Pigeons[/B], [B]Yellow-bellied Warbler[/B], [B]Brown-cheeked Fulvetta, White-bellied Yuhina [/B]etc. [/QUOTE]
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