Bird Watching Tours in Thailand

If you are looking for a small group bird watching tours in Thailand to remote and unspoiled destinations in southern Thailand. Then you can come here to experience the birding destination to its fullest. There are dedicated birders with extensive knowledge of southern Thailand's best bird watching spots. The bird watching tours in Thailand are fun, educational and easy. You do not even have to be a birder, just a nature lover.

Thailand is dominant in Southeast Asia for bird watching trips. The abundance of tropical birds is unmatched by her neighboring countries. It is convenient and the birds are plentiful. Khao Sok National Park is certainly one of the best bird watching tours in Thailand.

Marsh areas such as Thale Noi provide great birding for those interested in seeing water birds. Migratory shorebirds are easy to see from a kayak. The lush jungles, rain forests and marshes of southern Thailand offer birders with many marvelous opportunities.

There have been more than 970 species of birds recorded in Thailand. The number keeps growing as more and more birders search the land. At least 204 species of birds that have been recorded in Thailand’s mangrove forests alone. Firstly Phuket is one of the bird watching tours in Thailand. Though Phuket is a major destination for wildlife tours in Thailand, there are still plenty of birds here. The variety and abundance will surprise you. It is not unusual to see over 50 species on a day trip. If Phuket and Phang Nga Province trip is definitely one of our most popular birding trips.

Khao Sok National Park's 165 square kilometer reservoir provides easy bird watching opportunities. If you paddle a bit, then sit and watch the activities in the thick jungle. Besides a variety of monkeys and other mammals, the diversity of bird life is nothing short of thrilling. It is one of the popular bird watching tours in Thailand.

Phang Nga Province is within an hour's drive from Phuket. There are a couple of nice forest parks and a wildlife sanctuary that offer superb birding. Pittas, broad bills, barbets, babblers, warblers,flower peckers, sun birds, kingfishers and many more bird families reside in this special area. Phang Nga Province is a piece of traditional Thailand. It is not heavily developed and there are a lot of birds all over the province.

Khao Nor Chuchi is the last remaining lowland Jungle in Southern Thailand. Over 300 species of birds have been recorded there. Most of these are resident birds. This is the home to the very rare Gurney's Pitta.

Thailand's many natural history attributes have made it one of the most popular far eastern destinations for European birders. The exciting visits to Khao Yai, one of Thailand's best known national parks, and the montane forests surrounding the northern capital, Chiang Mai. Here you 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 Eyebrowed Thrush, Scaly White's Thrush, Siberian Ruby throat, 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, but admixed with these are more winter visitors from the north including Thick-billed Warblers and Brown Flycatchers. This one of the happening bird watching tours in Thailand.

There are many bird families in Thailand. There are 86 species of kingfishers worldwide. Thailand has 15 species. Most of them have bright plumage. Kingfishers typically perch in trees in an upright exposed posture. They often plunge-dive in the water for food. They eat fish, shrimp, other small aquatic animals, insects and occasionally small terrestrial animals such as lizards. Some species, such as the White-throated kingfisher, inhabit inland areas. They are commonly seen around rice fields looking for lizards, frogs, and insects. They are absolutely stunning when the sunlight hits their beautiful shiny blue feathers All of the hornbills found in Thailand are resident of Thailand they do not migrate. Hornbills are primarily frugivorous though they will take small reptiles, insects, and even other smaller birds during molting or when rearing young.

The best way to get started in birding is to go on a bird watching tours in Thailand. If you choose the right birding trip, you will be rewarded with great bird sightings and a wealth of birding information.

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