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Click images on this page to see the report of the tour/trip on which we photographed the bird. Note all photographs on B2A tours & guided trips taken ‘after’ participants got plenty good views.   Taiwan – Endemics quest (all of 'm)- April 2010 Taiwan is ‘the’ perfect location for a most enjoyable and rewarding shorter birding holiday. Enjoyable because.....rewarding because one can find all endemics in a single short visit, as we did on this tour. It is clear, after this trip that we enjoyed so much; I can highly recommend any birding trip to Taiwan with a big portion of fresh enthusiasm! It would not be possible of course, to force anyone to believe my words, therefore, if I may, I would like to note again that all images on this report’s pages have been taken ‘on’ the trip and as you may know, my photographs don’t lie!   Philippines - Mindanao, Cebu, Bohol & Luzon - February-March 2010 This year’s tour took off with our successful visit to Mt.Kitanglad and consequently scored on ‘the’ Great Philippine Monkey-eating Eagle right away on the first full birdwatching day on the mountain. Excellent start and together with plenty other highlights inclusive Red-eared Parrotfinch, Apo Myna and Sunbird, White-cheeked Bullfinch, Blue-capped Wood Kingfisher, Mountain Shrike, Bukidnon Woodcock and an incredibly obliging Philippine Frogmouth, left Mindanao to pick up the endangered Black Shama on Cebu. We did extremely well on Bohol and simply confirmed Rajah Sikatuna Protected Landscape has some of the very best and enjoyable birding in the Philippines, not to be missed on any Philippine tour. Our Bohol list is long... Report loaded with trip photos and sound recordings of over 50 species.   Thailand - Summary of short guided trips from Bangkok - winter 2009 - 2010 We have been very busy with guided trips in Thailand for the winter season 2009- 2010 with 4 longer trips in Northern Thailand in November and December alone. Additionally we did cater for a number of day trips and shorter trips with a start in Bangkok, all of which have been highly successful, not at least in finding the often most wanted for target species, the Spoon-billed Sandpiper, and consequently all participants enjoyed great sightings in the Pak Thale and Laem Pak Bia wader areas. It’s not just Spoon-billed Sandpiper that makes these short trips to this area so popular. A number of other specialities feature on the list and include the sought after Nordmann’s Greenshank and White-faced Plover.   Thailand – Krung Ching Waterfall – December 2009 The area around the HQ, and the trail to Krung Ching waterfall -encompassed in Khao Luang NP in southern Thailand- is one of the most rewarding spots for birding in South Thailand. Any short trip is likely to be highly productive with both bird activity and the number of sought-after species around surprisingly high!   Thailand - North & Central - December 2009 Never thought we would end up with a high count on the bird list for this trip as we had concentrated on finding a few scarce species rather than do the more general birding where besides specialities also the more regular species get attention. Never bothered counting really until I got to compose the trip list for this report, (due to a lack of time months after the trip) -393 species…in just 12 days!!!   Laos – Na Hin Forest – December 2009 Ashly Banwell, Albert Low, Neil Bostock, Carlton Collier and Stijn De Win / Birding2asia on a visit to Na Hin Forest confirmed again how excellent an area for birdwatching this place in Laos is…with nothing less than some superb additions to the Na Hin Forest bird list to prove!   Thailand - Mountains of the North - November 2009 We got the taste of a high day list fresh still. So why not, after yesterday, usually comes today…but not always at 117 species! Doi Chiang Dao always is superb, beautiful open mixed forests and superb birds, yes that’s inclusive Giant Nuthatch. After that, we made our way to Thaton, mainly to get positioned perfect for our Doi Lang visit tomorrow but this also means a chance to visit the fields and paddies near the town. Pied Harrier and Small Pratincole and Citrine Wagtails…but also a surprise Amur Falcon.   Thailand - North & Central - November 2009 I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU for your guiding and overall organisation over the past 2 weeks. It was excellent. Without you I suspect that we may have only seen 50% - 60% of the species we did see, and I guess that we would have missed many of the good ones. Thanks also for the efforts you made to ensure that Marie got good looks at the birds. She really appreciated that and it enhanced the holiday for her. She is still on high after our mammal spectacular at Kaeng Krachan.   Taiwan – Endemics & Black-faced Spoonbills – April 2009 We didn’t wait long before the male Swinhoe’s Pheasant came out feeding at the roadside which made us to enjoy a real show.  The female did pretty much the same before we went on for the drive to our hotel that we did not reach before seeing yet another male Swinhoe’s Pheasant and a couple Chinese Bamboo Partridges… Report with plenty photos of our most enjoyable week birding in Taiwan. Thailand – Laem Pak Bia area & The South – March-April 2009 It was only after our count in the evening we were surprised to have seen 116 bird species in the area. Anyway, we never focused on numbers, as quality is what one should go for at Pak Thale – Laem Pak Bia and we did not fail. A superb male Watercock that performed well right in the open at the edge of an irrigated rice field was the perfect way to start the day. No problem this morning to find 1 or 2 Spoon-billed Sandpipers and 31 Nordmann’s Greenshank attended their stakeout area... This report describes our successful Laem Pak Bia – Southern Thailand combination trip.   Philippines – Luzon, Bohol & Cebu – February-March 2009 Thanks go out to those people protecting the magnificent forests and areas we have visited.  It’s been a privilege to visit the forest at Subic Naval Base and Rajah Sikatuna NP in particular, as few forests in Asia enjoy this level of proper protection… Report with numerous images of birds photographed on tour.   Thailand – Laem Pak Bia area & Kaeng Krachan – February 2009 Another successful Birding2asia trip to the area produced the high total of 184 species in just 2 days, inclusive all targets at Pak Thale and Laem Pak Bia ; Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Nordmann’s Greenshank, ‘White-faced’ Plover and Chinese Egret.  In Kaeng Krachan NP on our relaxed second day, we enjoyed Banded + Silver-breasted Broadbills, Scaly-breasted Partridge, Great Hornbill… Plenty photos of ‘trip birds’ go with this report.   Thailand – “Lage landen” birding – February 2009 De volgende morgen om 7 uur waren we op de “lepelbekplek” in Pak Thale en binnen een minuut of 5 de eerste in het vizier. Whow, dat is nog es een start van de dag... Samenvattend; We hebben twee dagen in zeer uiteenlopende biotopen gevogeld en met de deskundige begeleiding van Stijn een optimaal resultaat behaald. Voor ons alle reden om alweer naar een volgend bezoek uit te kijken. Dit is een Nederlandstalige versie van het voorgaande verslag op de website van Avifauna Groningen.  Een voortreffelijk artikel geschreven door Jans & Trudi.

Thailand – Laem Pak Bia, Pak Thale & Kaeng Krachan – December 2008 A short but highly successful birdwatching trip to these superb sites in Thailand produced the high total of 207 species recorded, inclusive Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Nordmann’s Greenshank, Chinese Egret, Grey-Peacock Pheasant and Black-and-Red + Banded + Silver-breasted Broadbills, White-hooded Babbler and Ratchet-tailed Treepie… Report of a short guided trip from Bangkok   Thailand – North and Central National Parks – November 2008 Thailand was a surprisingly bird rich, diverse and friendly country and I really enjoyed joining this tour which resulted in one of the best planned and most smoothly executed trips I have ever made… A report written by Bernard Burgess.   Thailand – Mountains of the North – March 2008 A complete run of all the good mountain birding sites near Chiang Mai got us 281 bird species in just a week time... Download Peter Waanders' report from the same trip. (pdf)   Thailand – The South – June 2007 The morning saw us at the northern edge of Khao Phanom Bencha NP in an area that was surprisingly active with birdlife. In no time we got a decent list of birds inclusive 4 superb Dusky Broadbills, easily crowned bird of the day. Other goodies were Black-bellied Malkoha, Raffles’ Malkoha, Gold-whiskered Barbet, 5 Wreathed Hornbills, Grey-bellied Bulbul, Green Broadbill and Black-capped Babbler… A report on a trip that Tom guided for Bob & Jessica Allen.  Written by Bob Allen and posted on the Surfbirds website.

 

We do get to see some amazing mammals now and then. Click image for report.