The well-known stakeout behind the toilets at Pha Gluai Mai campsite, Khao Yai, produced a few birds yesterday morning. Most of the Thai photographers are camped out on Doi Lang and Mae Wong these days so there seems to be little feeding of the birds at this stakeout in Khao Yai and consequently birds that [...]

Slaty-legged Crake is a bird that is seldom seen in Thailand and its status and movements in the country are poorly known. However, this species has made a number of appearances at the Lung Sin’s waterhole near Kaeng Krachan national park and I was lucky enough to witness this bird’s performance there a few days [...]

Today I took a boat trip out to the sand spit at Laem Pak Bia, as Mr Daeng landed his boat on the sand spit a group of gulls and terns took flight and as I looked at them through my binoculars I instantly realized that I could see a first winter Kittiwake. I called [...]

Black-headed Ibis is a very uncommon bird in Thailand, but, like many other large waterbirds, they are increasing in number. In the past many large waterbirds, such as storks, ibises, pelicans, herons etc. were very common birds but years of agricultural intensification and persecution wiped many of these species out or made them very rare [...]