Category Archives: Vietnam Wilderness

Why birding in Can Gio Mangrove? Can Gio Mangroves, where water and land meet, offer a unique birding experience. While the planted mangroves may not attract many key bird species, the intertidal mudflats and sandbanks are the real highlights. This is why these areas provide important stopovers for migratory waterbirds, creating a fascinating sight for […]

Birding in Mang Den Mang Den is surrounded by montane evergreen forests, making it an ideal place for bird havens. Chestnut-eared Laughingthrush, a recently discovered near-endemic, is one of the main highlights for birders. It also shares a few specialties with Dalat Plateau, such as Indochinese Wren-babbler, Black-hooded Laughingthrush, Grey-crowned Crocias, and Yellow-billed Nuthatch. Other […]

Bird fauna in Lo Xo – Birding in Lo Xo Lo Xo is actually the name of a pass on Ho Chi Minh road leading Da Nang southwest-ward to Kon Tum. The mountain forest along the Vietnam border with Laos. It is located in the Kontum Plateau EBA nearby Ngoc Linh national park, the tantalizingly […]

Yok Don National Park is a biodiversity hotspot of deciduous forests with seasonal pools, semi-evergreen forests along rivers, and low hills. The Srepok River, a key tributary of Mekong river, runs through the park into Cambodia. Along with dry dipterocarp forests, the park shares a unique habitat for birds found mostly in northwestern Cambodia, making […]

Why birding in Phong Nha Ke – Bang national park Designated a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2003, the remarkable Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park contains the oldest karst mountains in Asia, formed approximately 400 million years ago. Riddled with hundreds of cave systems – many of extraordinary scale and length – and spectacular underground […]