Throughout November I was away from home most of the time, visiting some of Thailand’s best birdwatching locations with a number of visitors who provided some excellent company. The sites visited in November included Khok Kham, Laem Pak Bia/Pak Thale, Tung Bang Jak, Kaeng Krachan, Doi Inthanon, Doi Ang Kang, Huay Tung Tao and Doi [...]

I recently wrote about Phuttamonton Park on this blog – Autumn Migration & Phuttamonton Park – and created a page for it on thaibirding.com – Phuttamonton Park, but it seems I may have understated the potential of the site for birding. I received a couple of e-mails from Stijn De Win who visited the park [...]

Today I received an e-mail from Jorgen Eriksson with a very nice photo of a Blue Rock Thrush attached (see below). Apparently this bird made Jorgen’s back yard in Bangkok its winter territory last year and now it has returned for a second year. I am constantly amazed at how many species can exist in [...]

Autumn migration is in full swing now and I have had a number of people sending reports of passage migrants in parks in Bangkok recently, including a Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher in Suan Rot Fai. With reports of Yellow-rumped Flycatchers and Tiger Shrikes from a number of locations I decided to get out and look for [...]

This morning I took a visit to Chulachomklao Fort at the river mouth of the Chao Praya in Samut Prakan province. There are some mangroves at this site but actually the location consists mainly of gardens, scrubland, wetland patches and buildings serving the Navy, in fact there is a pre WW2 warship there, many naval guns [...]

This morning I decided to pay a visit to the Mangrove Research Centre at Samut Sakorn in hope of finding it a good place to see Mangrove Whistler. Having read in Phil Round’s  “The Birds of the Bangkok Area” that both this species and Asian Dowitcher were frequently seen at this location I had high hopes, [...]

Yesterday afternoon a pair of Yellow-vented Bulbuls flew over my house on the outskirts of Bangkok, making me think about this much-overlooked species. Yellow-vented Bulbul is most certainly one of the more striking bulbuls in Thailand with its bright yellow undertail coverts and silvery-white head, but is one that seems to be under-recorded, particularly by [...]