Krabi River Animals

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Krabi has many types of birds to spot in the area. You will want to bring your binoculars, mosquito spray or lotion, and sunblock as we head out to various bird-spotting locations in the Krabi area to spot some of Thailand’s amazing birds.

This field trip takes you through the mangroves along the Krabi River where you can find many different species of birds like these from a recent bird spotting report:

Thailand has a lot of birds you can spot. Krabi has its fair share. The state of birding in the country has not evolved to the point of say Costa Rica, Canada, the USA, or the UK. Thais just don’t seem to have the interest that people from other countries do.

Elephants Bathing In A River At Elephant Camp Near Ao Nang Town. Krabi Province, Thailand Stock Photo

Because of this, it’s difficult to find local guides who know birds – or anyone who does. Knowledge often trickles down from guides that are obsessed with birding, right? Here – we don’t have that. Even us, we’re desperately trying to learn all the different birds, it is a long process.

Recently, we lost our top birder who was Thai and could speak English well enough to get a lot of the names of birds across to people on the field trips. We are trying to replace him, but it may take a. while. In the meantime, we have people who know where birds are and who can put you on all kinds of birds.

For many of you, that’s what you really need. For others, beginners who don’t know the names of any birds and who could use a very knowledgeable English-speaking guide, you may not get all you need.

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The friends we have that do these trips try very hard to find the birds for you so you can get photos and videos. Identification will largely be left up to you. However, we do have a FB group that can identify birds for you. We also use the Cornell Bird ID app which identifies birds by their call. We have the Thailand and Southeast Asia packs installed.

– This is one of our ultimate birding trip, the one where you will see the most species of birds and the one that also offers glimpses of other wildlife in the mangroves like gliding lizards, mangrove pit viper snakes, and other cool stuff, even monkeys sometimes. An excellent trip you can choose for an hour up to 3 hours.

– a full day of bird watching as we tour the grounds of one of Thailand’s most stunning National Parks in the Surat Thani province.

Riverside Parallel Mountains Krabi Thailand Thai Stock Photo 555834415

We’ll be adding other bird tours to our site here as we learn more about where the best birds are to be found. In all honesty, we are not bird experts – and you’ll have to bring your expertise with you! We are learning, and we do know some good places to see birds. We’ll do our part – maybe you can teach us something about the birds we find.

If you have a custom bird tour idea, or a group of people you’d like to plan a custom tour for – CONTACT US.It's been a long, cold winter or so it seems, my wife was desperate to get away for a winter break, the sunshine and warmth of Southern Thailand beckoned. We decided to revisit the province of Krabi, in particular a small resort just on the edge of Krabi town called Ao Nang.

Like most holiday destinations of late I like to take a discrete look at the wild life opportunities, and I was in for a treat, one of Thailands few remaining Mangrove Forests was right on the doorstep. A habitat I was totally unfamiliar with, a quick look at the potential wildlife sightings and the prospect of seeing six different Kingfishers, one of my very favorite bird families, along with many other Mangrove specialties, I was really looking forward to it. I just needed to convince my wife that an interesting boat ride through the mangroves was something she would really enjoy.

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As well as the Mangrove forest which incidentally is ranked in the Ramser list of international important wetland sites, there are also the tidal mudflats which are also protected.

The main channel within the larger estuary to the Andaman Sea is known as Krabi Tai, one of Thailand's shortest rivers at just over five km long, the other two channels are the Yuan river to the south and the Chi Lat to the west.

From Ao Nang it was necessary to hire a taxi for the the ride to Krabi Town waterfront, (aim for the monument of mud crabs next to the pier) the taxi 's are very accommodating, for a fee of 800 baht roughly £18.00, they will pick you up from your hotel, transfer to Krabi town a 40 mins journey, wait for you, and then return you to your hotel, very reasonable I thought.

Statue Of Crabs In Krabi, Symbol Of Krabi Town, Thailand Editorial Image

The journey to Krabi town brought me my first and only sighting of a White Throated Kingfisher, typically perched on some overhead wires on the roadside vegetation, surprisingly I expected this Kingfisher to be the most common seen.

Not hard to find a Boatman at the pier, they will usally find you, a fee of 600 baht for an hour, I found a two hour boat trip was more than sufficient. maybe longer if you visit the mudflats.

Now my wife is no lover of any habitat that harbors or possibly harbors Frogs, Snakes, Water Monitor Lizards, mosquitoes, not even a great lover of the Long boat which she considers to be unseaworthy.

The Mangrove Forest At Krabi

But she decided to accompany me on this first trip to the Mangroves, needless to say she decided not to join me on the second trip, the hotel swimming pool and tropical gardens seemingly more attractive than the Mangroves.

First visit to the Mangroves, Buddy our boatman for this trip cast off and we were making our way up the main channel hugging the banks of the seemingly impenetrable mangrove forest. It wasn't long before the first of many sightings of the Brown Winged Kingfisher appeared perched in a dead tree alongside the river, these are huge Kingfishers, bright orange in colour with obvious brown wings as there name suggests, they are also armed with a huge bright red bill, unmistakable when you see one.

So with two Kingfisher species seen, we moved further up river seeing a good few Brown-Winged Kingfishers, their bright orange plumage making them quite easy to spot.

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Two Heron species were seen the riverside mangrove trees, the first was a smallish Heron, typically named the Mangrove Heron , but also known as the Little Heron or Striated Heron or Green Backed Heron.

An Egret species flew up from the riverside vegetation, I was hoping it might be the Chinese Egret which have been known to frequent this area, a medium sized Egret with dark legs, yellow feet and a yellow bill, very similar to the Little Egret which has been colonising the UK recently.

So with the White Breasted Kingfisher and the Brown Winged Kingfisher in the bag my third species made an appearance, and what a stunner, the Black Capped Kingfisher, not as numerous as the Brown Winged, but of a similar size. at least four individuals seen during our trip.

Jungle River In Thapom Mangrove Forest, Krabi Province, Thailand

Most of my bird sightings were all seen from the boat on the river, the Mangrove forest looked pretty impenetrable as you can see from the following phone photo's. There are a few channels which cut through the mangroves, a truly amazing natural sight.

As you enter the Mangrove forest , surprisingly very quiet and eerie, no bird sightings within the immediate area surrounding the channel. a look back at my trusty boatmen added to the atmosphere of the place.

A few of these Coucals and Asian Koels were seen high in the trees along the river, just could not get a clear shot of one, so just a record shot of a Coucal for my benefit.

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Another familiar bird sighting was the Common Kingfisher we are all familiar with back home, again surprisingly only one sighting. not so common, but my fourth species of Kingfisher.

As we neared the end of our tour of the forest, a Brahminy Kite was seen feeding in one of the overhanging trees. made a change from a Red Kite.

And now for the most frustrating moment of the trip, its not easy getting off these long boats, I had packed my camera equipment away, making it easier to climb on to the pier, as I said my goodbyes to the boatmen, two Collared Kingfishers in dispute, circled overhead before moving off down the river.

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But at least they were seen, making my Kingfisher sightings to five out of a possible six, only the Rufous Kingfisher eluding me.

Buddy my Boatman insisted on taking me out to the tidal mudflats where he assured me I would see lots of birds, he was not wrong plenty of waders on the mudflats, most of which scattered as he beached the longboat at speed on to the mudflat.

He insisted on me going for a walk on to the

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