Tag: Thailand

Birding Lodges

Birding Lodges of the World: Baan Maka Nature Lodge, Thailand

December 16, 2024 by Editor 1 Comment

Which bird species do you think is the biggest attraction to visitors to your lodge (please name only one species)? Ratchet-tailed Treepie (in Kaeng...

Birding, Food, Reviews

Outer Range Brewing Company: Pluck Pluck Pluck Rice Lager

May 13, 2022 by Tristan Lowery No Comments

The temperature soared to 85 degrees yesterday here in Albany. That’s not entirely unheard of around here in May, but it was an unexpected...

Trips

Birding crème de la crème: Asia – Corbett to Taman Negara

November 5, 2020 by Dragan No Comments

I bought a new rucksack yesterday and the first thing I checked when I brought it home was, how easily my spotting scope with...

Trips

World birding from a Schrödinger’s house

August 13, 2020 by Dragan 2 Comments

What I truly hate about the pandemic is that it mentally puts me back into the 1990s in the Balkans. Tensions, failing economy, depression...

Trips

The longest way to Costa Rica goes around the world!

July 18, 2019 by Dragan 2 Comments

Presuming that you want to bird Costa Rica, you would book a southbound flight (from N. America) or westbound (from Europe). Yet, for most...

Reviews

The New “Birds of Thailand”

January 31, 2019 by Dragan No Comments

Perhaps you don’t know it yet, but with more than 1000 bird species, palm-fringed sandy beaches, developed tourism infrastructure, moderate prices and political stability,...

News

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

November 16, 2016 by Meredith Mann 1 Comment

The world’s biggest flying bird—the Sarus Crane, with a maximum of height of 6 feet/1.8 meters—has had a rough go of it. Due to habitat encroachment and...