Few birders come to Thailand in the rainy season, there are a number of reasons for this: Reasons not to visit Thailand for Birdwatching in the Rainy Season 1. It keeps raining. 2. Winter visitors such as Spoon-billed Sandpiper are not present. 3. Trees have more foliage on them, making bird finding harder. 4. Leeches. [...]

  Male White-rumped Shama by Alex Vargas A few days ago I received this interesting message from Bob Harwood.  “A couple of months back one of the employees at Khao Soi Dao Wildlife Sanctuary pointed to a White-rumped Sharma hanging around the office, and told me it had a nest in the glove box of the rubbish [...]

On 8th July Andrew Ley and I took a trip to Bang Pra to look for the specialities of that site and just to take in a wide variety of birds. Leaving Bangkok at 5am saw us arrive at Bang Pra at a little after 6am, at which time birds were very active. It didn’t [...]

Blue-winged Pitta is a wet season breeding visitor to most of Thailand and its distinctive call can be heard in June and July. Peter Ericsson sent me a link to some photographs that he recently obtained of Blue-winged Pittas; they are superb and definitely worth a look. Here is one to whet the appetite but [...]

On the 7th July I paid a visit to the Bang Poo Soi 119, Bang Poo and Muang Boran Fishponds with Andrew and Beth Ley from Australia. They were on a 2 day stopover on their way home from London and I collected them from the airport and we headed straight to Bang Poo Soi [...]

I took another trip out to Kaeng Krachan National Park on the 4th and 5th July with a couple of American birders. Whilst birding was very slow, we did see some really good species. In fact Kaeng Krachan always seems to produce something really good although it can be hard to predict exactly what will [...]

The Wildlife Sanctuary of Huay Kha Kaeng is one of the most pristine forest habitats in mainland Southeast Asia and part of Thailand’s extensive Western Forest Complex. However, amongst travellers it is little know and few birders have tapped into the huge potential for birdwatching this location has. With this in mind it was interesting to [...]