October Bird Count!

CBGA conducted a Bird Count for the beginning of winter migration to collect species data and to raise awareness to the public regarding conservation of wildlife and its habitats in every October. This year the event was on 8th October 2023 at Veal village, Chriev commune, Siem Reap province on the northern marshland of Tonle Sap. We counted 66 species from 6:00am till 6:00pm and below are the checklist and some pictures from the event.

Chreav village
1. Lesser Whistling-duck
2. Cotton Pygmy-goose
3. Garganey
4. Indian Spot-billed Duck
5. Rock Dove
6. Red Turtle-dove
7. Eastern Spotted Dove
8. Zebra Dove
9. Germain’s Swiftlet
10. Asian Palm-swift
11. Greater Coucal
12. Lesser Coucal
13. Asian openbill
14. Chinese Pond-heron
15. Javan Pond-heron
16. Grey Heron
17. Purple Heron
18. Great Egret
19. Little Egret
20. Intermediate Egret
21. Spot-billed Pelican
22. Little Comorant
23. Black-winged Stilt
24. Pacific Golden Plover
25. Lettle Ringed Plover
26. Kentish Plover
27. Grey-headed Lapwing
28. Long-toed stint
29. Common Snipe
30. Common Sandpiper
31. Wood Sandpiper
32. Mash Sandpiper
33. Oriental Pratincole
34. Black kite
35. Besra
36. Blue-tailed Bee-eater
37. Common kingfisher
38. Pied Kingfisher
39. Sunda Pied Fantail
40. Black Drongo
41. Northern Brown Shrike
42. Golden-headed Cisticola
43. Double Zitting Cisticola
44. Yellow-bellied Prinia
45. Plain Prinia
46. Dark-necked Tailorbird
47. Common Tailorbird
48. Oriental Reed-warbler
49. Striated Grassbird
50. Eurasian Barn Swallow
51. Streak-eared Bulbul
52. Sunda Yellow-vented Bulbul
53. Asian Pied Starling
54. Black-collard Starling
55. Common Myna
56. Great Myna
57. Oriental Baya Weaver
58. Streaked Weaver
59. Red Avadavat
60. Scaly- breasted Munia
61. Indian Sparrow
62. Plain-backed Sparrow
63. Eurasian Tree Sparrow
64. Paddyfield Pipit
65. Common Greenshank
66. Red-necked stint