For those of us who travel with non-birding partners it can sometimes be tricky to balance enjoying time together somewhere interesting and the craving to maximise the opportunity to see new birds in new places. Personally, having a good holiday with my wife is the most important thing when planning trips together but doing some [...]
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Rainy Season Birding at Pathum Thani Rice Research Centre | Birding in Thailand
August 16th, 2024 
Nick There can be times of the year when bird watching hits a trough because a lack of activity, unhelpful weather or overfamiliarity with a smaller selection of species than at other times. In Thailand these factors are all true in the rainy season with a large number of species absent, on their breeding grounds further [...]
Posted in Birding in Bangkok, Birding in Central Thailand, Birding in Pathum Thani, Birdwatching in Thailand, Birdwatching Trips, Nature 
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Mountain Birding from Chimgan | Birding in Uzbekistan
July 8th, 2024 Nick I have always loved immersing myself in mountain landscapes but over recent years my opportunity to do so has been limited with much of my time spent in tropical forests and wetlands in Thailand so when the opportunity presented itself to spend some time birding in mountain habitats in Uzbekistan I took it without having [...]
Posted in Birdwatching in Uzbekistan, Birdwatching Trips, Nature Tags: bird watching, birding central asia, birding uzbekistan, birdwatching trips, uzbekistan Comments Off
Jakarta Boat Trip Birding | Birding Indonesia
April 14th, 2024 Nick Where can you see Christmas Island Frigatebird, Sunda Teal, Pink-necked Green Pigeon, Milky Stork, Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker, Cerulean Kingfisher, Clamorous Reed Warbler and a wide range of other species in an urban setting? On a boat trip from Jakarta, Indonesia! The island of Java is one of the most densely populated areas of the world [...]
Pre-Trip Birding Around Incheon | South Korea Birding
June 5th, 2023 Nick Have you ever started a birding tour by getting off of the plane and rushed into a vehicle, sleep-deprived and confused, spending the remainder of the day birding in extreme weather conditions, seeing some amazing birds but not being able to enjoy them properly due to your body being on the verge of shutdown? Well, [...]
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Top 5 Birds of Cambodia Birding Tour 2023 | Cambodia Birding
April 10th, 2023 Nick Cambodia is the last refuge of a number of exciting species in Southeast Asia as well as the home of a wide range of birds at a greater abundance than most of the surrounding countries. Leading the Calidris Birding Tours trip to Cambodia in March 2023 gave all of the tour participants the opportunity to [...]
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Waterbirds at Prek Toal Reserve | Cambodia Birding
April 1st, 2023 Nick One of the great spectacles of any birding trip to Cambodia is a visit to the waterbird colonies at Prek Toal Reserve on Tonle Sap where birders can be surrounded by huge numbers of waterbirds from a trip on a small boat. This is exactly the situation I found myself in when leading the Calidris [...]
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