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Global Migratory Bird Day 2024

The Global Migratory Bird Day is a local event, organized by the Cambodia Bird Guide Association (CBGA) and it is annual event to replace the October Bird Count event held in previous years. The event is featured with smaller activities to engage more public awareness and foster the participation of school children, parents, and local authorities regarding wildlife and its habitat conservation. There were 150+ participants including children, parents and local authorities, joining this event and involving in bird counting this year with better feedback.

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Below are some pictures from the event:

Bird Checklist:

Indian Spot-billed Duck
Zebra Dove
Red Turtle Dove
Spotted Dove
Germain’s Swiftlet
Asian Palm-Swift
Greater Coucal
Black Bittern
Black-crowned Night-heron
Eastern Cattle-Egret
Javan Pond-Heron
Little Egret
Intermediate Egret
Eastern Great Egret
Little Comorant
Pacific Golden Plover
Little Ringed Plover
Kentish Plover
Temminck’s Stint
Long-toed Stint
Common Snipe
Common Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Oriental Pratincole
Whiskered Tern
Blue-Tailed Bee-eater
Common Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Black Drongo
Northern Brown Shrike
Double Zittng Cisticola
Plain Prinia
Yellow-bellied Prinia
Common Tailorbird
Striated Grassbird
Barn Swallow
Yellow-vented Bulbul
Black-collared Starling
Common Myna
Great Myna
Pied Bushchat
Ornate sunbird
Chestnut Munia
Scaly-breasted Munia
Red Avadavat
House Sparrow
Eurasian Sparrow
Paddy-field Pipit
Chinese pond-Heron
Streaked Weaver
Plaintive Cuckoo
Racket-tailed Treepie
Indochinese Roller
Red throated Pipit
Oriental Reed-Warbler
Black browed Reed-Warbler

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Bird Photography Trip for the Bengal Florican

Bengal Florican Video Clip During a Bird Photography Trip from SR

Here’s our video clip of the critically endangered Bengal Florican from our team’s photography trip to the Florican Grassland late of this April 2020. Cambodia Bird Guide Association arranges bird photography trip to all birding sites in Cambodia with our expert guides.

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Birding Cambodia

Birding in Cambodia, Southeast Asia, with professional bird guides from the Cambodia Bird Guide Association (CBGA), based in Siem Reap, to help you find birds you would like to see. With various trips from half-day to 3-week itinerary in Cambodia.

Taking you to our 18 birding sites in Cambodia:

1. Prek Toal Bird Sanctuary – Boat trip across Tonle Sap to the breeding colony of large waterbird.

2. Angkor Wat – Temples and birds at the archaeological park UNESCO World Heritage Site

3. Kbal Spean – Temples and birds at Kulen National Park

4. Phnom Krom Marshland – Wetland near Siem Reap by the Edge of Tonle Sap lake – best place for a half-day birding in Siem Reap

5. Changkran Roy – Bird feeding station, also best for bird photographing

6. Ang Trapeang Thmor – Sarus Crane Reserve

7. Florican Grassland – Bengal Florican Conservation Area along the Tonle Sap floodplain in Siem Reap and Kompong Thom

8. Koh Ker – DDF forest for forest bird White-rumped Pygmy-falcon and the pyramid temple

9. Tmatboey – Dry dipterocarp forest for Giant and White-shouldered Ibis

10. Boeng Toal – Vulture Restaurant for the 3 critically endangered vultures – Red-headed, White-rumped, and Slender-billed Vultures.

11. Okoki – White-winged Duck pool in Chhep Wildlife Sanctuary

12. Kratie – Boat trip to see the River Dolphin and Mekong Wagtail

13. Koh Samseb (new)- Birding on the Islands along Mekong River in the Sambor Wildlife Sanctuary for a great number of good birds (Mekong Wagtail, White-shouldered ibis, Green Peafowl …..

14. Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary – Evergreen forest for mammals and birds in the Eastern Plain

15. Chaktomuk Marshland – Home for Cambodian Tailorbird

16. Pursat Grassland – the place to find the Chinese Grass-babbler, at the southern floodplain of Tonle Sap

17. Bokor National Park – birding in the southern part of Cambodia

18. Phnom Aural – Climb the Cambodian highest peak in Cardamom Mountain for the Cambodian Laughingthrush.

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Cambodian Tailorbird at Chaktomuk Marshland, Phnom Penh birds

Chaktomuk Marshland Bird Checklist

Chaktomuk Marshland target birds including the endemic Cambodian Tailorbird, Siberian Rubythroat, Oriental Reed-warbler, Spotted Owlet, Plain-backed Sparrow, and Dusky Warbler.

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Global Migratory Bird Day 2024

Below are some pictures from the event:

Bengal Florican Video Clip During a Bird Photography Trip from SR

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