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WorldTwitch VietnamBooks | Trip Reports on WorldTwitch | More Trip Reports | Rare Bird Reports | The Babbler | Links | Birding Tours | Conservation and Environment Books & MapsFFI Ecotourism Map of Vietnam (2005) - the best available Vietnam map.
Trip Reports on WorldTwitchReport by Frank Rheindt, 8 April - 5 June 2003, of a trip that included many rarely visited sites. [Bird list.] March 2002 Sightings from Vietnam by Sam Woods and Andy Adcock. 1998 Vietnam Trip Report by Jon Hornbuckle. [Bird list.] 1999 Vietnam Trip Report by Alfred Chia. [Bird list.] More Trip ReportsThe Budget Twitcher's Guide to Birdwatching Across Vietnam by James Heng Moira and Graeme Wallace - 2002 Kevin Vang, Ahmet Bektas & Aaron Becker - 2002 Remco Hofland, Chris Quispel & Roland van der Vliet - 2002 Phil Benstead & Charlotte Petersson - 1998 Bird ReportsTom Gullick ticks another 44 species with Vietnam Birding by Richard Craik. Mekong Wagtail at Yok Don HQ by Richard Craik, Vietnambirding.com. A Birding Bonanza in the Red River Delta by Richard Craik, Vietnambirding.com. Rare Vultures Flock to Cambodia. BBC News, 10 June 2004. Giant Ibis rediscovered in Yok Don, Dan Lak Province, Vietnam: Two Giant Ibis were observed by survey team members Ha Quy Quynh and Jonathan Eames, feeding at a small forest wetland in the central part of the national park on 6 March, 2003. The birds flew-off westwards towards Cambodia. These are the first sightings of Giant Ibis in Vietnam since 1931, when the species was encountered in Binh Phuoc province. A new species of laughingthrush has been described from Mount Kon Ka Kinh in the central highlands of Vietnam by Jonathan C. Eames & Charles Eames in Bull.B.O.C. 121(1): 10-23 (March 2001). The bird, which they have named Chestnut-eared Laughingthrush, Garrulax konkakinhensis, is most similar to the Rufous-chinned Laughingthrush, G. rufogularis. See the article for a color plate by Charles Eames and hand-held color photos. Arnold Meijer found a new site for Grey-crowned Crocias, Crocias langbianis, "in a piece of forest enclosed by agricultural fields along the road from DaLat to Ta Nung. The male was singing 6m above the track (this enabled me to make some good sound-recordings) and I saw the female every now and then. . . Teus Luijendijk and Chris Quispel saw the birds a little more then a week later. I also saw another endemic bird, Vietnamese Greenfinch, Carduelis monguilloti, near this site." Susan Myers recently found a Lesser Rufous-headed Parrotbill, Paradoxornis atrosuperciliaris, in the Ham Rong Gardens in Sa Pa, the second record for Vietnam. The earlier record was at the Na Hang Nature Reserve. A new species, the Black-crowned Barwing, Actinodura sodangorum, has been described from the western highlands of Vietnam. J.C. Eames et al. Ibis 141:1-10. The BabblerExcellent Quarterly Newsletter of BirdLife International in Indochina: No. 8 - December 2003 (pdf) - Rarest of the Rare: White-winged Duck; unsuccessful search for Pink-headed Duck in the Hukaung Valley of Burma following credible reports from two fishermen:
No. 7 - September 2003 (pdf) - Article about the Giant Ibis with photos; Wetland Wilderness in Thailand Under Threat by Phil Round; Establishment of the BirdLife Cambodia Programme. Vol. 2 No. 2 - June 2003 (pdf) - Review of Directory of Important Bird Areas: Key Sites for Conservation in Vietnam; article on Jerdon's Courser; articles on Gurney's Pitta. Vol. 2 No.1 - March 2003 (pdf) - article by Richard Grimmet on Sumatra. Vol. 1 No. 4 - December 2002 (pdf) - Rarest of the Rare: Pink-headed Duck; Cambodia's Northern Plains - Heartland of the Giant Ibis; Avenues in Futility in Conservation by John MacKinnon:
Vol. 1 No. 3 - September 2002 (pdf) - Gurney's Pitta survey in Myanmar by Phil Round; Rarest of the Rare: Black-faced Spoonbill. Vol. 1 No. 2 - July 2002 (pdf) - Rarest of the Rare: White-shouldered Ibis; More new sites for Sarus Crane in Cambodia; At Last, a population of White-shouldered Ibis - in northern Cambodia; New sites for Saola found in Quang Binh Province. Vol. 1 No. 1 - March 2002 (pdf) - Rarest of the Rare: Bengal Florican; Laos: Green Peafowls persist at Ban Nakay IBA; Vietnam: New Black-faced Spoonbill site discovered in Quang Ninh. LinksDon't miss the Special Vietnam Issue of the Bulletin of the Oriental Bird Club. (No. 33, June 2001). Binh Chau - Phuoc Buu Nature Reserve Bird Links to the World - Vietnam BirdLife International Vietnam Programme Enviro-VLC List Archives - UNDP Vietnam Where do you want to go birding in Vietnam today? Sam Veasna Center for Wildlife Conservation - Cambodia Birding ToursBirdingPal Contacts in Vietnam Conservation and EnvironmentWorld Rainforest Movement - Index to Articles about Vietnam International Rivers Network - Vietnam Campaign Vietnam: Deforestation, reforestation, and industrial plantations. By Chris Lang. WRM. Laos: Vietnamese consortium plans to build six dams in Laos. By Chris Lang. WRM Bulletin No. 74 (September 2003). If you want to see Giant Ibis, better go now! Vietnam: Na Hang Dam - the reality of sustainable development? By Chris Lang, WRM Bulletin No. 73 (August 2003). As the term is used by the UN and World Bank, "sustainable development" is a sham designed to fool gullible do-gooders. Vietnam: Shrimps, Mangroves and the World Bank. By Chris Lang, WRM Bulletin No. 51 (October 2001). |
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Craig
Robson, A Guide to the Birds of SouthEast Asia. The field
guide to use in Vietnam. Robson's Birds of Thailand,
excerpted from the regional guide, has larger illustrations but
only includes birds found in Thailand. New Holland & Princeton
University Press, 2000.
Threatened
Birds of Asia. The BirdLife International Red Data Book.
N.J. Collar, A.V. Andreev, S. Chan, M.J. Crosby, S. Subramanya
and J.A. Tobias (eds.) 2 volumes, 3038 pages. 2001. Detailed
information on the 665 most threatened species. All the species
accounts are