Phnom Krom birding trip with Mina, Cambodia, March 3, 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:

Not on Mina's list: Purple heron, Rufous treepie.

A total of 22 species is included.