Phnom Krom Vogelausflug mit Mina, Kambodscha, 3. Maerz, 2024

These are the photos I took on a birding outing at Phnom Krom while staying at Siem Reap. My guide Mina gave me a list of the 52 species we saw, (a bug in my software finds 53 at the moment?) but I only add to my list those I can photograph or identify myself (or at least think I could identify them if I saw them again), which is about half. As Cambodian birds are new to me (except for those I learned traveling in through Thailand and Loas), I stuck to the photos. As I don't have a book, I mostly used Merlin BirdID or Google Lens to try to identify the birds, but I did check whether they really matched. TBI is my code for 'to be identified', which you'll still see a few times. Highlights for me were the kingfisher (always!), bee-eaters, the roller, the masked bulbuls, the drongos with their long split tails, seeing a new kind of starling, and the Baya weavers at the end.

By the way, I booked my birding tour via Sam Veasna Conservation Tours - ask for Mina as your guide, he was knowledgable, friendly, and his English was good! Mina also does tuktuk tours without birding, see his TripAdvisor page.

This is what Mina listed, complete with counts of about how many there were:

10 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) [Profil]
1 Oriental Turtle-Dove -- Sitting the wire line infront of us [Profil]
2 Red Collared-Dove [Profil]
4 Spotted Dove [Profil]
2 Zebra Dove [Meine Beobachtung]
3 Greater Coucal [Profil]
1 Lesser Coucal [Profil]
1 Plaintive Cuckoo [Profil]
12 Germain's Swiftlet [Meine Beobachtung]
2 Asian Palm Swift [Profil]
1 Ruddy-breasted Crake -- Flew across our face very quick [Profil]
60 Little Ringed Plover [Meine Beobachtung]
1 Wood Sandpiper [Profil]
50 Whiskered Tern [Meine Beobachtung]
1 Painted Stork [Meine Beobachtung]
1 Oriental Darter [Meine Beobachtung]
4 Little Cormorant [Profil]
6 Little Egret [Profil]
1 Striated Heron [Profil]
10 Chinese Pond-Heron [Meine Beobachtung]
3 Eastern Cattle Egret [Profil]
1 Great Egret [Meine Beobachtung]
2 Medium Egret [Profil]
4 Gray Heron [Meine Beobachtung]
2 Common Kingfisher [Meine Beobachtung]
20 Blue-tailed Bee-eater [Meine Beobachtung]
1 Indochinese Roller -- Heard early morning [Profil]
1 Ashy Minivet [Meine Beobachtung]
1 Black-winged Cuckooshrike [Profil]
5 Black Drongo [Meine Beobachtung]
4 Brown Shrike [Profil]
3 Large-billed Crow [Profil]
1 Common Tailorbird [Profil]
3 Plain Prinia [Meine Beobachtung]
1 Oriental Reed Warbler -- Heard [Profil]
3 Barn Swallow [Profil]
2 Streak-eared Bulbul [Profil]
7 Yellow-vented Bulbul [Meine Beobachtung]
2 Black-collared Starling [Meine Beobachtung]
1 Common Myna [Profil]
16 Great Myna [Meine Beobachtung]
1 Asian Brown Flycatcher [Profil]
1 Taiga Flycatcher [Profil]
2 Amur Stonechat [Meine Beobachtung]
1 Pied Bushchat -- Male [Profil]
6 Baya Weaver -- Male and Female [Meine Beobachtung]
20 Asian Golden Weaver [Meine Beobachtung]
8 Scaly-breasted Munia [Profil]
5 House Sparrow [Profil]
2 Plain-backed Sparrow [Meine Beobachtung]
12 Eurasian Tree Sparrow [Profil]
1 Paddyfield Pipit [Profil]
Nicht auf Mina's Liste: Purpurreiher, Wanderbaumelster.

Insgesamt 24 Vogelarten sind inbegriffen.