You're a stat mate!!

I'm going for collared kingfisher in the first then.

Re the coucal - I couldn't tell you the size tbh - was quite a distance away. I reckon you're right though, seems to fit the bill.

Good you are here for a while Simon. Cambodia is actually fab for birds.

The list grows every year. If you are keen, or even just lucky, you can still make significant finds.
First in Country, first in province, a new habitat, etc.
Even the Cambodian Tailorbird, a totally new species, was described as "hiding in plain sight". You could find the next one.

Good to hear also that you recognise the conservation value in recording your findings.
** If you are here for a while you gotta get Goes; "Birds of Cambodia" !!!
Monument Books has it. Very possible you will find cheap photocopies at Russian Market, or maybe try Bohr's Books.

Thanks for the bird talk, we need more of that at CEO... and wild animal noises too.

SternAAlbifrons wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2019 5:32 pm Good you are here for a while Simon. Cambodia is actually fab for birds.

The list grows every year. If you are keen, or even just lucky, you can still make significant finds.
First in Country, first in province, a new habitat, etc.
Even the Cambodian Tailorbird, a totally new species, was described as "hiding in plain sight". You could find the next one.

Good to hear also that you recognise the conservation value in recording your findings.
** If you are here for a while you gotta get Goes; "Birds of Cambodia" !!!
Monument Books has it. Very possible you will find cheap photocopies at Russian Market, or maybe try Bohr's Books.

Thanks for the bird talk, we need more of that at CEO... and wild animal noises too.

Absolutely mate - massively excited about the birding here.

When I first came to Phnom Penh I was surprised at the lack of variation (bird life where I am is basically limited to common myna, house and tree sparrows, swifts and zebra doves). All lovely birds, but I was expecting to see more (naively).

I list everything I see, so will absolutely be reporting sightings that should be reported to the relevant people.

I'm on 185 species for the year - list as follows if you're interested (all species either in England, Gambia or Cambodia)

Feral pigeon
Black headed gull
Mallard
Moorhen
Ring necked parakeet
Egyptian goose
Canada goose
Jay
Chiffchaff
Blue tit
Coot
Tufted duck
Gadwall
Cormorant
Grey heron
Lapwing
Magpie
Wigeon
Pintail
Carrion crow
Chaffinch
Robin
Great tit
Greenfinch
Mute swan
Teal
Shoveller
Green woodpecker
Blackbird
Collared dove
House sparrow
Greylag goose
Marsh harrier
Shelduck
Avocet
Curlew
Starling
Jackdawk
Reed bunting
Great white egret
Song thrush
Goldeneye
Little egret
Common pheasant
Water rail
Oystercatcher
Turnstone
Ringed plover
Brent goose
Rock pipit
Red billed hornbill
Beautiful sunbird
Pied crow
Pied kingfisher
Common sandpiper
Palm swift
Hooded vulture
African darter
Cattle egret
Western grey planeneater
White crowned robin chat
Common wattle eye
Red belly paradise flycatcher
Scarlet chested sunbird
Bloody billed wood dove
Red billed fire finch
Laughing dove
Blue spotted wood dove
African thrush
Splendid sunbird
Grey back camaraoptra
Pied wing swallow
Swallow tailee bee eater
Common garden bulbul
Yellow crowned gonolek
Bearded barbet
White throated bee eater
Village weaver
Senegal parrot
Blue bellied roller
African grey hornbill
Western reef heron
Violet turaco
Grey kestrel
Yellow billed kite
Frankolin
Spotted woodpecker
Grey headed woodpecker
Laughing dove
Blue breasted kingfisher
Whimbrel
Common redshank
Malachite kingfisher
Blue cheeked bee eater
Great white egret
Rose ringed parakeet
Senegal thick-knee
Grey plover
Long tailed cormorant
Greenshank
Piapiac
African harrier hawk
Black headed heron
Spur-wing plover
Lizard buzzard
Little bee eater
Purple glossy starling
Long tailed glossy starling
Orange cheeked waxbill
Marsh harrier
Palm nut vulture
Yellow wagtail (112)
Purple heron
Little weaver
Black billed wood dove
Northern puffback
African pied hornbill
Hamerkop
White faced scops owl
Lesser honeyguard
Red cheeked cordon-bleu
Northern crombeg
Black neck weaver
Grey heron
Caspian tern
Namaqua dove
Black shouldered kite
Senegal cucal
Northern black flycatcher
Black kite
White billed buffalo weaver
Green wood hoopoe
White-crested tiger heron
Bronze manakin (134)
Morning dove
Black capped babbler
Red shouldered cuckoo shrike
Pin-tailed whyda
Green headed sunbird
Golden tailed woodpecker
Fork-tailed drongo
African jacana
Squacco heron
Black crake
African green pigeon
Speckled pigeon
Great coromorant
Giant kingfisher
Osprey
Sandwich tern
Goliath heron
Blue-cheek bee eater
Pink backed pelican
Yellow-billed stork
Barn swallow
Greater blue-eared starling
Common ring plover
Broad billed roller
Black winged stilt
Sacred ibis
African wattled plover
African spoonbill
Black-billed wood hoopoe
Little egret (164)
Grey wagtail
Goosander
Common myna
Olive backed sunbird
Zebra dove
Spotted dove
Malaysian pied fantail
Yellow vented bulbul
Chesnut munia
Yellow bellied prinia
Tree sparrow
Great hornbill
Wreathed hornbill
Black crested bulbul
Spotted owlet
Asian koel
Plain bellied prinia
Collared kingfisher
Pied bushchat


Highlights from Cambodia so far were the wreathed and great hornbills, which I saw in Kampot up Bokor Mountain - genuine privelage to see them.

So hearing from you and Hanno has given me a proper buzz for what I might see in the coming months!

@hanno

Got a few more today if you could kindly confirm for me please?

Plaintive cuckoo?



Chinese pond heron?



Common iora?



And not sure on this sunbird - yellow bellied, black on top with a greenish/bluey hue when in the light



Common tailorbird?



Cheers!!

Yep - near PP.

I have another pic of another sunbird which I'm sure is a brown throated. Can't upload the pic to my phone directly, bit this is it...

On the same tree as the others.

hanno wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2019 3:37 pm Certainly Brown-throated. Ia mguessinm that is what the other one is as well but the throat is hard to see in the first photo. Was that on the coast?

Thanks mate - thought so.

No - that was right by the Killing Fields.