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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 such […]

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 […]

Crows and other corvids have long been recognised as being among the most intelligent of birds, indeed among the most intelligent in the animal kingdom. When I was young my father used to tell me stories of a pet Jackdaw that he had which had learned to say a few words and on “The Life […]

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper is a very rare, but seemingly regular, passage migrant in Thailand. One recently put in an appearance at Khok Kham, in Samut Sakorn province but unfortunately I was otherwise engaged in the south so did not get a chance to see it myself.
Amongst others, Peter Ericsson got some photos and has allowed me […]

On my trip to Southern Thailand I took a number of photographs to add to the relevant pages of thaibirding.com. As I also visited a few new places I took photographs for upcoming pages on those locations too, but for the meantime I will post the photos here for people to view.
Photos from Krabi
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Yesterday evening I returned to Bangkok after a 10 day trip to southern Thailand; the trip was a mixture of birding and visiting friends. For the birding I visited Laem Pakarang, Khao Sok, Krabi Mangroves, Krung Ching waterfall and the Tiger Cave Temple.
I don’t make many trips to southern Thailand so it is always interesting […]

White-eyed River Martin is the dream of every birdwatcher in Thailand and whilst I did not have any pretensions of finding it, I did head to Bueng Boraphet in Nakorn Sawan province, where the River Martin was last seen in 1978, for a couple of days with Alex Vargas.
On the morning of 13th August we […]