Trip report Krung Ching , South Thailand birding – 18th to 20th march – travelderness.com/thailand

Krung Ching birding — 3 Days in Late March

Late March and already firing — from forest floor to canopy.

Highlights like Malayan Banded Pitta, Green Broadbill, Scarlet-rumped Trogon and Whiskered Treeswift set the tone — and the rest just kept coming.

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Species Highlights

Pigeons & Doves

• Thick-billed Green Pigeon

Cuckoos & Malkohas

• Raffles’s Malkoha
• Red-billed Malkoha
• Black-bellied Malkoha
• Plaintive Cuckoo

Swifts & Swallows

• Whiskered Treeswift
• Pacific Swallow
• Rufous-bellied Swallow

Raptors

• Jerdon’s Baza
• Wallace’s Hawk-Eagle
• Black-thighed Falconet

Trogons

• Orange-breasted Trogon
• Scarlet-rumped Trogon

Hornbills

• White-crowned Hornbill

Barbets

• Sooty Barbet
• Blue-eared Barbet
• Red-throated Barbet
• Gold-whiskered Barbet

Woodpeckers & Allies

• Rufous Piculet
• Gray-and-buff Woodpecker
• Streak-breasted Woodpecker
• Banded Woodpecker

Broadbills

• Green Broadbill
• Black-and-yellow Broadbill

Orioles & Allies

• Dark-throated Oriole
• Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike
• Rufous-winged Philentoma

Flycatchers & Monarchs

• Blyth’s Paradise Flycatcher
• Gray-headed Canary-flycatcher
• Asian Brown Flycatcher
• Pale Blue Flycatcher
• Fulvous-chested Jungle Flycatcher

Crows & Starlings

• Large-billed Crow
• Asian Glossy Starling

Bulbuls

• Hairy-backed Bulbul
• Ochraceous Bulbul
• Olive Bulbul
• Spectacled Bulbul
• Scaly-breasted Bulbul
• Olive-winged Bulbul
• Red-eyed Bulbul
• Streak-eared Bulbul
• Stripe-throated Bulbul
• Yellow-vented Bulbul

Warblers

• Pale-legged Leaf Warbler

Babblers & Understorey

• Pin-striped Tit-Babbler
• Fluffy-backed Tit-Babbler
• Chestnut-winged Babbler
• Gray-headed Babbler
• Puff-throated Babbler
• Malayan Black-capped Babbler
• Short-tailed Babbler
• Abbott’s Babbler

Forktails & Ground Birds

• Chestnut-naped Forktail

Flowerpeckers

• Yellow-breasted Flowerpecker
• Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker
• Orange-bellied Flowerpecker

Spiderhunters & Sunbirds

• Purple-naped Spiderhunter
• Little Spiderhunter
• Yellow-eared Spiderhunter
• Spectacled Spiderhunter
• Gray-breasted Spiderhunter

Canopy Specials

• Asian Fairy-bluebird
• Greater Green Leafbird
• Lesser Green Leafbird

Finches & Munias

• White-rumped Munia
• Pin-tailed Parrotfinch

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Three days.
This kind of list.

👉 And this is still the build-up.

May–June is peak.

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