On 3rd April 2012 I found myself with the rare opportunity to get out for a morning close to home. Having had great success in finding migrant species in April 2011 at Sri Nakorn Kuan Khan park, Bangkok, I decided to see if I could get lucky again. Arriving at about 7am seemed a bit early [...]
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Thailand Birding: Raptors At Petchaburi
December 1st, 2011 
Nick The rice fields around the town of Petchaburi always play host to a good number and variety of raptors in the dry season. The areas known as Nong Pla Lai and Tung Bang Jak are just a collection of rice fields and other mixed agriculture just a few kilometres north of Petchaburi and can be [...]
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Thailand Birding: Black-headed Ibis & Other Large Waterbirds
November 4th, 2011 Nick Black-headed Ibis is a very uncommon bird in Thailand, but, like many other large waterbirds, they are increasing in number. In the past many large waterbirds, such as storks, ibises, pelicans, herons etc. were very common birds but years of agricultural intensification and persecution wiped many of these species out or made them very rare [...]
Thailand Birding: Spoon-billed Sandpiper Returns!
November 3rd, 2011 Nick For all the birders visiting Thailand over the next few months who were getting nervous about whether this critically endangered species would make it back to Thailand this winter, the good news is yes it did! Phil Round informed me that at least 2 were seen at Khok Kham from 22nd October and 2 or [...]
Thailand Birding: Shorebirds at Pak Thale
November 1st, 2011 Nick One of the most anticipated arrivals each year is Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Birdwatchers from all over the world come to Thailand to watch this critically endangered shorebird at Pak Thale and Khok Kham. A few days ago on 25th October, 2012, I did a little birding at Pak Thale in the company of Jules Tolboom from [...]
Wet Season Birding
July 19th, 2011 Nick 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 [...]
Thailand Birding: Three New Species For Thailand
May 9th, 2011 Nick 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 [...]
