[4 Days] BIRDWatching Tour at Dalat – You’ll be surprised

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[4 Days] BIRDWatching Tour at Dalat – You’ll be surprised

Duration :   4 Days
The Price :   800 $
Max People :    6

BIRDWatching tour at Dalat is designed for you to reach the hotspot for birdwatching in Southeast Asia, placed on the Dalat plateau isolated from Himalaya Mt. and consider the same Peninsular Malaysian highlands.

Dalat is the best birdwatching site in Vietnam located in Central highland Vietnam which is 300 km from HCM city. This EBA has the natural evergreen forest and coniferous forest where home for six endemic birds species: Collared Laughingthrush (Garrulax yersini), Orange-breasted Laughingthrush (Garrulax annamensis), Vietnamese Cutia (Cutia legalleni), Grey-crowned (Crocias Crocias langbianis), Black-crowned Fulvetta (Alcippe klossi) and Vietnamese Greenfinch (Carduelis monguilloti).

The Dalat Plateau also supports several subspecies including Rufous-backed Sibia (eximia), Black-headed Sibia (robinsoni), Blue-winged Minla (orientalis), Black-throated Sunbird (johnsi), and Red Crossbill (meridionalis).

Dalat is a unique terminus of a South-East Asian montane leapfrog area. In addition to the pronounced element of avian endemism found on the Dalat Plateau, Dalat multiple widespread montane SouthEast Asian birds that share their closest vocal or plumage similarities not with adjacent populations in central Vietnam and Laos, but with distant populations, often in Peninsular Malaysia, that are separated by a string of dissimilar populations in between.

This evolutionary and biogeographic mode of distribution, in which two similar terminal populations are separated by dissimilar intervening populations, is known as a ‘leapfrog pattern, and has been well-characterised inlinear mountain ranges such as the Andes of South America. In Asian birds, leapfrog patterns have been found in archipelagic situations such as eastern Indonesia

Note from [Le Manh Hung et al. 2020]

Datala waterfall, Ta Nung valley, Bidoup-Nui Ba National Park are the most famous spots for birders where almost endemic birds occur.

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Bird highlight for BIRDWatching tour at Dalat

Black-hooded, White-cheeked, Orange-breasted, and Collared Laughingthrush; Bar-backed Partridge; Silver Pheasant; Red-vented Barbet; Black-browed Barbet; Red-headed Trogon; Long-tailed Broadbill; Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon; Mountain Imperial Pigeon; Black Eagle; Rufous-bellied Eagle; Jerdon’s Baza; Rusty-naped and Blue Pitta; Burmese Shrike; Indochinese Green Magpie; Eurasian Jay; Slender-billed and Maroon Oriole;  White-throated Rock Thrush; Green Cochoa; Rufous-browed, Blue-and-White, Mugimaki , Snowy-browed and Little Pied Flycatcher; Large Niltava; Lesser Shortwing;  White-tailed Robin; Spotted Forktail; Yellow-billed Nuthatch; Yellow-cheeked and Grey-crowned Tit, Grey-bellied Tesia;  White-spectacled, Chestnut-crowned  Warbler; White-browed Scimitar Babbler; Streaked , Eye-browed, Pygmy  Wren-Babbler; Rufous-capped Babbler; Vietnamese Cutia; Clicking shrike-babbler; Blue-winged Minla; Black-crowned, Indochinese Fulvetta; Grey-crowned Crocias; Rufous-backed, Black-headed Sibia, Black-headed Parrotbill; Gould’s Sunbird; Streaked Spiderhunter; Vietnamese Greenfinch; Red Crossbill.

Read the Full bird list of Dalat Plateau DOWNLOAD HERE (Ebird.ORG)

Itinerary: 4 days BIRDWatching tour at Dalat

Day 1: (L D) Pick up from the hotel around Dalat or Pick up from Lien Khuong Airport for bird photography (or We could pick up you from Sai Gon and then 7 hour-drive to Dalat for bird-watching tours.

Day 2: (B L D) Full day birdwatching tours in Dalat

Day 3: (B L D) Full day birdwatching tours in Dalat

Day 4: (B L) Morning or full day birdwatching depends on your schedule.

Schedule Details

Day 1 (L,D): Lien Khuong Airport - Dalat

Pick up from the hotel around Dalat or Pick up from Lien Khuong Airport for bird photography (or We could pick up you from Sai Gon and then 7 hour-drive to Dalat for bird watching tours.

Day 2 (B,L,D): Dalat Bird Watching

Full day bird watching tours in Dalat

Day 3 (B,L,D): Dalat Bird Watching

Full day bird watching tours in Dalat

Day 4 (B,L): Dalat - Lien Khuong Airport

Morning or full day bird watching depend on your schedule.

What's Included

  • Accommodations
  • Bird hide
  • Entrance fees
  • Expert bird-guide
  • Jeeps
  • Meals
  • Private car

Activities

  • Birding

Why Book With Us?

  • We are the most experience bird tour operator in Vietnam