The large majority of birders visit Thailand in the dry season (November to April). Why is this? Well, firstly, there is a far higher number of species present in the country during the dry season due to the visiting migrants from China and Siberia and the largely dry and sunny weather is an attraction for [...]

This morning I was alerted (sadly too late) to the presence of a Sooty Gull, which had been photographed at Bang Poo. This is the third new species for Thailand that I have been recently been made aware of with the other additions being Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker which was photographed in Satun province on the Malaysian [...]

Alex Vargas recently took this photograph of a female Maroon-breasted Philentoma in the vicinty of Km 36 at Kaeng Krachan national park. He also saw the male well, through binoculars but only managed to obtain images of this female. Maroon-breasted Philentoma is known from Kaeng Krachan but is very seldom seen, in fact it is [...]

Although I have lived in Bangkok for years I have never taken the effort to go and track down any of the city’s Java Sparrows; there has long been a self-sustaining population of this species, originating from escaped caged birds. However, beyond the vague instructions of “the Don Muang area” I have never known where [...]

The large majority of birders visit Thailand between the months of November and March, which is a great time for winter migrants but not so good for resident birds. There are a few birds in particular which just are not present in the dry season or not at their best. Asian Golden Weaver is one [...]