Sunrise Birding LLC www.sunrisebirding.com THAILAND SPECIES LIST January 2015 • 319 species • 2 species heard only • 3 species seen by leaders only • 43 species of shorebirds incl. jacanas Spoon-billed Sandpiper Photo by Kevin T. Karlson, January 2015 (C) = Common; (A) = Abundant; * = noteworthy/rare species 1) Bar-backed Partridge 18) Gray-capped Woodpecker 2) Scaly-breasted Partridge 19) Greater Yellownape 3) Red Junglefowl 20) Black-headed Woodpecker, m+f* 4) Kalij Pheasant (3) 21) Common Flameback 5) Gray Peacock-pheasant (heard) 22) Greater Flameback 6) Lesser Whistling Duck 23) Great Slaty Woodpecker (2) 7) Cotton Pygmy Goose 24) Lineated Barbet 8) Garganey 25) Green-eared Barbet (C) 9) Little Grebe 26) Blue-throated Barbet 10) Eurasian Wigeon 27) Moustached Barbet 11) Northern Pintail 28) Blue-eared Barbet 12) Eurasian Wryneck (1)* 29) Coppersmith Barbet 13) Speckled Piculet (3) 30) Oriental Pied Hornbill (many) 14) White-browed Piculet 31) Great Hornbill 15) Black-and-buff Woodpecker 32) Wreathed Hornbill (20+) 16) Heart-spotted Woodpecker 33) Eurasian Hoopoe 17) Crimson-winged Woodpecker 34) Indian Roller (C) Sunrise Birding LLC – THAILAND TOUR SPECIES LIST – January 2015 1 www.sunrisebirding.com 35) Dollarbird (Nick and Kevin) 63) Asian Barred Owlet 36) Orange-breasted Trogon 64) Collared Scops Owl 37) Red-headed Trogon 65) Spotted Owlet 38) Common Kingfisher 66) Brown Hawk Owl (1)* 39) Pied Kingfisher 67) Great-eared Nightjar 40) Banded Kingfisher (M) 68) Large-tailed Nightjar 41) White-throated Kingfisher 69) Indian Nightjar 42) Black-capped Kingfisher 70) Rock Pigeon (many) 43) Collared Kingfisher 71) Spotted Dove (many) 44) Banded Bay Cuckoo 72) Red-collared Dove (many) 45) Asian Koel 73) Little-Cuckoo-dove * 46) Green-billed Malkoha (C) 74) Zebra (Peaceful) Dove (many) 47) Raffle’s Malkoha (1) 75) Pink-necked Green-pigeon 48) Greater Coucal 76) Thick-billed Green-pigeon 49) Blue-bearded Bee-eater 77) Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon* 50) Little Green Bee-eater 78) Mountain Imperial Pigeon 51) Blue-tailed Bee-eater 79) Emerald Dove (Nick, Kevin, Judy) 52) Chestnut-headed Bee-eater 80) White-breasted Waterhen 53) Vernal Hanging-parrot 81) Common Moorhen 54) Red-breasted Parakeet 82) Pheasant-tailed Jacana 55) Himalayan Swiftlet 83) Bronze-winged Jacana 56) Germain’s Swiftlet 84) Ruddy-breasted Crake 57) Brown-backed Needletail 85) Greater Painted Snipe (female)* 58) Asian Palm Swift 86) Pintail Snipe 59) Fork-tailed Swift 87) Common Snipe 60) Cook’s Swift (split from FT Swift) 88) Black-tailed Godwit (A) 61) House Swift 89) Bar-tailed Godwit (C) 62) Gray-rumped Treeswift (20+) 90) Asian Dowitcher (1) Sunrise Birding LLC – THAILAND TOUR SPECIES LIST – January 2015 2 www.sunrisebirding.com 91) Whimbrel (C) 119) Lesser Sandplover 92) Eurasian Curlew (2+) 120) Greater Sandplover 93) Eastern Curlew (1000s) 121) Pacific Golden-Plover 94) Ruff 122) Gray Plover (C) 95) Wood Sandpiper (100s) 123) Gray-headed Lapwing 96) Common Sandpiper 124) Red-wattled Lapwing 97) Spotted Redshank (many) 125) Lesser Frigatebird (1 first winter)* 98) Common Redshank (fairly common) 126) Brown-headed Gull (many) 99) Marsh Sandpiper (many) 127) Black-headed Gull (2) 100) Common Greenshank 128) Pallas’s Gull (3) 101) Nordmann’s Greenshank (30+)* 129) Great Crested Tern 102) Red-necked Stint 130) Lesser Crested Tern 103) Spoon-billed Sandpiper (1)* 131) Common Tern 104) Temminck’s Stint 132) Little Tern (50+) 105) Long-toed Stint (10+) 133) Gull-billed Tern 106) Great Knot (1000+) 134) Caspian Tern 107) Red Knot 135) Whiskered Tern (many) 108) Dunlin (2)* 136) White-winged Tern (common) 109) Curlew Sandpiper (many-1000s) 137) Black Baza (4) 110) Broad-billed Sandpiper (many) 138) Oriental Honey-buzzard (about 10) 111) Red-necked Phalarope (1)* 139) Black-eared Kite 112) Red (Grey) Phalarope (1 first winter) * 2 nd Thailand record 140) Brahminy Kite (common) 113) Black-winged Stilt (many) 141) Black-shouldered Kite (3) 114) Pied Avocet ( close to 100) 142) Crested Serpent-eagle (5) 115) Little Ringed Plover 143) Pied Harrier (1) 116) Kentish Plover (many) 144) Crested Goshawk 117) Malaysian Plover* 145) Shikra 118) White-faced Plover (3)* 146) Besra Sunrise Birding LLC – THAILAND TOUR SPECIES LIST – January 2015 3 www.sunrisebirding.com 147) Black Eagle (1) 174) Blue-winged Leafbird (10+) 148) Greater Spotted Eagle (1) 175) Common Iora 149) Rufous-bellied Eagle (2) 176) Great Iora 150) Booted Eagle (1) 177) Asian Fairy-bluebird 151) Eurasian Kestrel (Kevin and Nick) 178) Brown Shrike 152) Little Cormorant (many) 179) Long-tailed Shrike (1) 153) Indian Cormorant 180) Burmese Shrike 154) Little Egret (abundant) 181) Grey-backed Shrike (1) 155) Chinese Egret (2) 182) Crested Jay 156) Pacific Reef Egret 183) Common Green Magpie 157) Great Egret 184) Racket-tailed Treepie 158) Intermediate Egret 185) Ratchet-tailed Treepie (2)* 159) Eastern Cattle Egret 186) Eastern Jungle Crow 160) Chinese Pond-heron (common) 187) Black-naped Oriole 161) Javan Pond-heron (some-Bangkok) 188) Black-hooded Oriole (1) 162) Gray Heron 189) Black-winged Cuckooshrike (C) 163) Purple Heron 190) Scarlet Minivet 164) Striated Heron 191) Rosy Minivet 165) Black-crowned Night-heron 192) Swinhoe’s Minivet 166) Yellow Bittern 193) Black Drongo 167) Cinnamon Bittern 194) Ashy Drongo 168) Black-headed Ibis 195) Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo 169) Painted Stork 196) Spangled (Hair-crested) Drongo 170) Asian Openbill (many) 197) Greater Racket-tailed Drongo 171) Blue Pitta (several heard close) 198) Bronzed Drongo 172) Silver-breasted Broadbill (1) 199) Ashy Woodswallow 173) Dusky Broadbill Sunrise Birding LLC – THAILAND TOUR SPECIES LIST – January 2015 4 www.sunrisebirding.com 200) Bar-winged Flycatcher Shrike 226) Chestnut-tailed Starling 201) Pied Fantail 227) White-shouldered Starling 202) Gray-headed Canary Flycatcher 228) Brahminy Starling (1)* 203) Black-naped Monarch 229) Common Myna (common) 204) Asian Paradise Flycatcher 230) White-vented Myna (common) 205) Large Woodshrike 231) Common Hill Myna 206) White-throated Rock-thrush 232) Golden-crested Myna 207) Blue Rock-thrush 233) Asian Pied Starling (many) 208) Orange-headed Thrush* 234) Velvet-fronted Nuthatch (1) 209) Eye-browed Thrush 235) Sultan Tit 210) Dark-sided Flycatcher 236) Sand Martin 211) Asian Brown Flycatcher 237) Asian House Martin 212) Mugimaki Flycatcher (1 male)* 238) Barn Swallow (abundant) 213) Taiga Flycatcher 239) Red-rumped Swallow 214) Verditer Flycatcher 240) Black-headed Bulbul 215) Slaty-backed Flycatcher 241) Black-crested Bulbul (many) 216) Hainan Blue-flycatcher 242) Stripe-throated Bubul 217) Blue-throated Flycatcher 243) Flavescent Bulbul 218) Hill Blue Flycatcher 244) Yellow-vented Bulbul 219) Chinese Blue Flycatcher (1 male) 245) Streak-eared Bulbul 220) Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher 246) Sooty-headed Bulbul 221) Siberian Blue Robin 247) Ashy Bulbul 222) Oriental Magpie Robin 248) Puff-throated Bulbul 223) White-rumped Shama 249) Ochraceous Bulbul 224) Eastern Stonechat 250) Gray-eyed Bulbul 225) Pied Bushchat 251) Streaked Bulbul Sunrise Birding LLC – THAILAND TOUR SPECIES LIST – January 2015 5 www.sunrisebirding.com 252) Mountain Bulbul 278) Large Scimitar-Babbler 253) Red-whiskered Bulbul 279) Limestone Wren-babbler* (4+) 254) Yellow-bellied Prinia 280) White-browed Scimitar-Babbler 255) Plain Prinia 281) Rufous-fronted Babbler 256) Rufescent Prinia 282) Pin-striped Tit-Babbler 257) Zitting Cisticola 283) Spot-necked Babbler ? yes/no 258) Oriental Reed Warbler 284) Blyth’s (White-browed) Shrike-Babbler 259) Thick-billed Warbler 285) Collared (White-hooded) Babbler 260) Golden-bellied Gerrygone (heard) 286) Brown-cheeked Fulvetta 261) Common Tailorbird 287) Indochinese Bushlark 262) Dark-necked Tailorbird 288) Yellow-vented Flowerpecker 263) Radde’s Warbler 289) Fire-breasted Flowerpecker 264) Yellow-browed Warbler 290) Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker 265) Yellow-bellied Warbler 291) Van Hasselt’s (Purple-throated) Sunbird 266) Two-barred Warbler 292) Purple Sunbird 267) Claudia’s Leaf-warbler 293) Black-throated Sunbird 268) Arctic Warbler 294) Ruby-cheeked Sunbird 269) Eastern Crowned Warbler 295) Olive-backed Sunbird 270) Sulphur-breasted Warbler 296) Crimson Sunbird 271) Alstrom’s (Plain-tailed) Warbler 297) Little Spiderhunter 272) White-crested Laughingthrush 298) Streaked Spiderhunter 273) Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush 299) White (Amur) Wagtail 274) Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush 300) Eastern Yellow Wagtail 275) Black-throated Laughingthrush 301) Gray Wagtail 276) Abbott’s Babbler 302) Forest Wagtail 277) Puff-throated Babbler 303) Richard’s Pipit Sunrise Birding LLC – THAILAND TOUR SPECIES LIST – January 2015 6 www.sunrisebirding.com 304) Paddyfield Pipit 305) Olive-backed Pipit 306) Plain-backed Sparrow 307) House Sparrow 308) Eurasian Tree Sparrow (many) 309) Streaked Weaver 310) Baya Weaver 311) Asian Golden Weaver 312) White-rumped Munia 313) Chestnut Munia 314) Scaly-breasted Munia Species forgotten in the first round 315) Sanderling (12+) 316) Black-thighed Falconet (about 6)* 317) Black-and-yellow Broadbill Jan.16 – photos taken by KK 318) Pale-legged Leaf Warbler 1/14 319) White-bellied 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