At the weekend my wife and I took a trip to the beach at Hat Chao Samran, in the Laem Pak Bia area. Now, this was never supposed to be a birding trip but I take my binoculars everywhere so I can grab any opportunity to look at something with feathers. Beach Food A short [...]

Male & female Olive-backed Sunbirds by Johan Svensson Olive-backed Sunbird (Nectarinia jugularis) is one of those species that gets widely overlooked when birdwatching in Thailand; it is small, it is not particularly colourful (although the male is attractive enough) and it is commonest in habitats such as parks and gardens in which birdwatchers don’t spend much time. [...]

Craig Robson’s Field Guide to the Birds of Thailand, published in 2002 did a great job of updating older field guides, particularly with the inclusion of species which had been added to the Thai list since publication of Lekagul & Round’s Guide. However, since then even more species have been added, so many that the [...]

Whilst waterbird counts are conducted in midwinter in Asia through the Asian Midwinter Waterbird Census, the numbers of waterbirds present in the wet season doesn’t seem to attract much attention in Thailand. Having been visiting Muang Boran Fishponds for years I am fully aware of the large numbers of waterbirds present but having read more [...]

On the morning of 5th June I joined Gabby and Alex Vargas for a trip to Bang Pra in Chonburi province in the hope of finding some Quail. Unfortunately, we arrived rather later than hoped which reduced our chances of finding these tricky birds due to the human disturbance that had already begun. However, in the [...]

Another interesting e-mail arrived in my inbox today, this time from Alex Vargas to let me know that he had spent some time updating his photo galleries on pbase. Alex has a growing gallery of not only Thai birds but others from around the world. However, his Thai birds photo gallery is the one I [...]

Excuse the terrible pun but I just received a very interesting e-mail from Ian Smith, of Viang Yonok Hotel in Chiang Saen, which I thought I would share.  “We have noticed how agressive the Common Mynas are. Every day they dive bomb one of our cats when she walks out into the garden. At first [...]