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Little Crane, Very Big Deal: Hope for Sarus Cranes in Thailand

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Sarus Cranes were extirpated in Thailand about 50 years ago due to the triple threat of farmers, hunters, and pesticides. Those measures have just paid off: The first wild-born Sarus Crane in Thailand since the 1960s just celebrated its one-month birthday. But now, it’s farmers who are helping to save the day.

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Birding 8500ft above Thailand (Doi Inthanon National Park)

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Doi Inthanon National Park in northern Thailand is a birding paradise (IMHO). I only got to spend a couple of days there, but the altitudinal range - and corresponding habitat and bird assemblage variation - really touched me.

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Birding Thailand: Doi Lang

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Thailand also has a site where birders go for very much the same reason that Americans go to Bentsen-Rio Grande State Park or the Chiricahuas. It is called Doi Lang, a mountain with a winding road that flanks the Burmese border in far northern Thailand that has affinities to the Himalayan foothills further north and west.

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Laem Pak Bia Birding, Thailand

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So I couldn’t make it through an entire post about birding in Thailand without having at least one photo of a bee-eater, broadbill, kingfisher or pitta. Or any of the others, but I figure, after 20+ years of birding I still know almost nothing of what is possible to know about birds. Watching them seems to be a good place to start.

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World birding from a Schrödinger’s house

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Thailand 1065 18. Birds of Thailand field guide review. India 1341 10. Democratic Republic of Congo 1185 11. United States 1160 12. Tanzania 1135 13. Kenya 1131 14. Mexico 1120 15. Myanmar 1112 16. Uganda 1079 17. Argentina 1046 19.

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“The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia”

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This guide describes the 125 best birding sites for both common and rare species, covering Myanmar, Thailand, Laos (officially Lao PDR), Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines and Timor Leste. As a rule, I like second editions better. Whatever was omitted or incorrect in the first is fixed in the second.

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9 (almost) Birds that live underwater

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Looking through some of my photos from my last trip to Thailand, I got to wondering what birds the various fish and creatures would be if they were feathered.

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