Thailand - the final instalment

 White-fronted Plover??

 White-fronted Plover??

 Male (below) and female Red Collared Dove

 Common Sandpiper

 Pied Asian Starling

 Collared Kingfisher

 Asian Openbill Stork

Paddyfield Pipit

A great holiday with some great birds. Read the full account of my birding in Chiang Mai in a forthcoming issue of Birdwatching Magazine.

In the meantime, I'm back in grey and chilly Blighty. As a little reminder of my time in Thailand I've included the complete list of birds that I identified. As you may imagine, there were a ton of birds that I just couldn't work out!

Little Cormorant

Little Egret

Pacific Reef Egret

Great Egret

Eastern Cattle Egret

Grey Heron

Chinese Pond Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

Grey Heron

Brahminy Kite

Osprey

Crested Serpant Eagle

Peregrine

Asian Openbill

White-breasted Waterhen

Common Moorhen

Mountain Bamboo Partridge

Mrs Hume’s Pheasant

Red-wattled Lapwing

Little Ringed Plover

Kentish Plover

Malaysian Plover

Lesser Sandplover

Greater Sandplover

Pacific Golden Plover

Pied Avocet

Black-winged Stilt

Spotted Redshank

Common Greenshank

Marsh Sandpiper

Wood Sandpiper

Common Sandpiper

Spoon-billed Sandpiper

Red-necked Stint

Curlew Sandpiper

Broad-billed Sandpiper

Black-tailed Godwit

Bar-tailed Godwit

Eurasian Curlew (heard)

Heuglin’s Gull

Brown-headed Gull

Caspian Tern

Greater Crested Tern

Common Tern

Roseate Tern

Gull-billed Tern

Little Tern

Whiskered Tern

Feral Pigeon

Mountain Imperial Pigeon

Oriental Turtle Dove

Spotted Dove

Red-collared Dove

Little Cuckoo Dove

Peaceful Dove

Pink-necked Green Pigeon

Greater Coucal

Asian Emerald Cuckoo

Asian Koel

Green-billed Malkoha

Asian Barred Owlet

Large-tailed Nightjar

Himalayan Swiftlet

Asian Palm Swift

Pacific Swift

Cook’s Swift

House Swift

Common Kingfisher

White-throated Kingfisher

Black-capped Kingfisher

Collared Kingfisher

Blue-tailed Bee-eater

Indian Roller

Lesser Yellownape

Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker

Stripe-breasted Woodpecker

Coppersmith Barbet

Asian House Martin

Sand Martin

Bank Swallow

Wire-tailed Swallow

Paddyfield Pipit

Olive-backed Pipit

White Wagtail

Yellow Wagtail

Grey Wagtail

Grey Bushchat

Siberian Stonechat

Blue Whistling Thrush

Rufescent Prinia

Plain Prinia

Common Tailorbird

Thick-billed Warbler

Dusky Warbler

((Raddes Warbler))

Two-barred Greenish Warbler

Pallas’ Leaf Warbler

Yellow-browed Warbler

Hume’s Yellow-browed Warbler

Chestnut-flanked White-eye

Oriental White-eye

Japanese White-eye

Grey-crowned Warbler

Asian Brown Flycatcher

Taiga Flycatcher

((Little Pied Flycatcher))

Hill Blue Flycatcher

Chinese Blue Flycatcher

Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher

Great Tit

Yellow-cheeked Tit

Chestnut-vented Nuthatch

Velvet-fronted Nuthatch

Giant Nuthatch

Brown Shrike

Grey-backed Shrike

Black Drongo

Ashy Drongo

Spangled Drongo

Black-naped Oriole

Slender-billed Oriole

Maroon Oriole

Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike

Large Cuckoo-shrike

Grey-chinned Minivet

Long-tailed Minivet

Scarlet Minivet

Pied Fantail

Common Iora

Oriental Magpie Robin

Ashy Woodswallow

Black-headed Bulbul

Red-whiskered Bulbul

Sooty-headed Bulbul

Flavescent Bulbul

Streak-eared Bulbul

Mountain Bulbul

Black Bulbul

White-browed Scimitar Babbler

White-browed Shrike Babbler

Brown-cheeked Fulvetta

Fire-breasted Flowerpecker

Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker

Olive-backed Sunbird

Purple Sunbird

Mrs Gould’s Sunbird

Eurasian Jay

Grey Treepie

Large-billed Crow

Asian Pied Starling

Black-collared Starling

Chestnut-tailed Starling

Common Myna

White-vented Myna

House Sparrow

Tree Sparrow

Baya Weaver

Red Avadavat

Scaly-breasted Munia

161 species

50 lifers