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For those who are interested, below I have listed the species that I saw on my supposed non-birdy holiday to Thailand!

The birds in brackets were only heard and not seen.

Dabchick Little Cormorant Striated (Little) Heron Chinese Pond Heron/Javan Pond Heron Eastern Cattle Egret Great Egret Intermediate Egret Little Egret Eastern (Pacific) Reef Egret Grey Heron Purple Heron Cotton Pygmy Goose Osprey Black-eared Kite Black-shouldered Kite Brahminy Kite Greater Spotted Eagle Pied Harrier Eastern Marsh Harrier Common Kestrel Peregrine Black-headed Ibis Black-faced Spoonbill Asian Openbill White-breasted Waterhen Common Moorhen Pheasant-tailed Jacana Bronze-winged Jacana Black-winged Stilt Avocet Red-wattled Lapwing Lesser Sand Plover Greater Sand Plover Grey Plover Pacific Golden Plover Little Ringed Plover Kentish Plover Malaysian Plover Black-tailed Godwit Bar-tailed Godwit Eurasian Curlew Ruff Sanderling Great Knot Red-necked Stint Temminck’s Stint Long-toed Stint Curlew Sandpiper Spoon-billed Sandpiper Broad-billed Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Terek Sandpiper Spotted Redshank Marsh Sandpiper Greenshank Wood Sandpiper Common Snipe Red-necked Phalarope Little Tern Common Tern Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Greater Crested Tern Whiskered Tern Black-headed Gull Brown-headed Gull Heuglin’s Gull Feral Pigeon Red-collared Dove Spotted Dove Zebra Dove Pink-necked Green Pigeon Plaintive Cuckoo Asian Emerald Cuckoo Asian Koel Greater Coucal ((Spotted Little Owl)) Himalayan Swiftlet Germain’s Swiftlet Asian Palm Swift House (Little) Swift White-throated Kingfisher Black-capped Kingfisher Common Kingfisher Collared Kingfisher Indian Roller Little Green Bee-eater Blue-tailed Bee-eater Hoopoe Oriental Pied Hornbill Coppersmith Barbet Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker ((Golden-bellied Gerygone)) Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike Ashy Minivet Sand Martin Dusky Crag Martin Barn Swallow Richard’s Pipit Paddyfield Pipit (Eastern) Yellow Wagtail White Wagtail Black-naped Oriole Ashy Woodswallow Pied Fantail Black Drongo Ashy Drongo Greater Racket-tailed Drongo Large-billed Crow Asian Pied Starling Black-collared Starling Common Myna White-vented Myna Stonechat Common Iora Yellow-browed Warbler Dusky Warbler Zitting Cisticola Common Tailorbird Plain Prinia Oriental Magpie Robin Asian Brown Flycatcher Taiga Flycatcher Chinese Blue Flycatcher Asian Paradise Flycatcher Brown Shrike Olive-backed Sunbird Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker Black-headed Bulbul Yellow-vented Bulbul Streak-eared Bulbul Scaly-breasted Munia House Sparrow Plain-backed Sparrow Tree Sparrow Baya Weaver

Jason K says:

January 3, 2012 at 9:51 am

Just think Dave…the Scrubs is beckoning! If you are anything like myself you will have been havuing local patch withdrwal symptoms whilst you were away.