Birds of Thailand!

Pretty safe to say, my first sightings of such beauties as this (Hooded Pitta) are what got me excited about documenting the avifauna of the world along side of mammals!

Currently there are 1101 species of birds in the Kingdom of Thailand. Up until a couple years ago, I only gave this group passive interest, however if there was a cool bird nearby when I was hunting mammals, I would generally snap a pic or two, mainly for documentation rather than worrying about hi-res quality images. During the Covid years, I, with the help of a couple outstanding birders (Ben and Jan!) I discovered birds for real and ended up spending hundreds of hours in Thailand actually targeting bird species and trying for better images. Sometimes I have even been moderately successful.

While I have lived in Thailand for over ten years now, I have assembled a solid collection of images of the fauna of the country - perhaps more than any other I have visited or lived in. (Link to Mammals of Thailand here) Even more than North America? As of this publication, I have documented 570+ species of birds inside the boundaries of Thailand as shown in the below gallery - a bit more than half. Although I have images of many species found in Thailand but photographed in other countries, I have not included those in this gallery. As I have no plans on leaving Thailand in the near future, I suspect this gallery will grow.

I have not followed any specific taxonomic order in this gallery. Rather I basically followed a semi-alphabetical order based on general common name. For examples, “ducks” will be in one area of the gallery while “teals”, even though in the same family, will be in a later section. Sorry if this is confusing. I have better taxonomic groupings of the bird class in the above linked section on birds, which is still a work in progress. Simply follow the link above to see what I have posted so far.

I would love to think the below gallery is filled with 100% correct identifications, but alas, I am sure there are mistakes. Please do not hesitate to send me corrections if you are so inclined! Cheers.