Thailand

Summary

This holiday savours the best of Oriental birdwatching. Thailand's many natural history attributes have made it one of the most popular Far Eastern destinations for European birders. This exciting Naturetrek tour visits some of Thailand’s premier birdwatching locations, including Baan Paktale, Laem Pakbia in Phetchaburi Province where attractions include Long-toed Stints and Spoon-billed Sandpipers; Khao Yai, one of Thailand's best-known national parks; and the montane forests surrounding the northern capital, Chiang Mai. Here we can hope to find many of the wintering species from Siberia which send pulses racing when they occur as vagrants in Britain: birds such as Eye-browed Thrush, Scaly (White's) Thrush, Siberian Rubythroat, and Radde's Warbler. The exotic residents of Khao Yai's evergreen forests and grasslands include trogons, pittas, broadbills, hornbills and other characteristic birds of south-east Asia, and mixed with these are more winter visitors from the north including Thick-billed Warblers and Brown Flycatchers.