10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2019

This guide describes the 125 best birding sites for both common and rare species, covering Myanmar, Thailand, Laos (officially Lao PDR), Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines and Timor Leste. Whatever was omitted or incorrect in the first is fixed in the second.

Birds 94

Birds Asia Species Laos 94

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Tags: vietnam laos endangered species.

Species 100

Species Endangered Species Laos Vietnam 100

Critter News

OCTOBER 2, 2009

In July, Kenyan authorities intercepted 16 elephant tusks and two rhinoceros horns being illegally exported to Laos from Mozambique. So far this year poachers in Kenya have killed 128 elephants for their ivory; last year 98 were killed.

illegal 100

illegal Kenya Elephants Rhinoceros 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Menglun in Xishuangbanna is less than 50 km away from the Chinese border to Laos and Myanmar, and it has a big botanical garden.

Birds 105

Birds China Barn Owls Owls 105

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

601-800 sp: Canada, Costa Rica, Panama; Russia; Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa; Laos, New Guinea (PNG); Australia. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands.

Birds 95

Birds Costa Rica Equatorial Guinea Guyana 95

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

It inhabits rather dry areas within a region notorious for being one of the rainiest parts of the world, and is thus patchily distributed from Burma through Laos, Cambodia, parts of Thailand and south China, all the way to Vietnam. The Brown Prinia is an Asian species with a very peculiar range.

Birds 81

Birds Species Burma Indonesia 81