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Birding Cambodia photo video to all birding sites in Cambodia

Birding Cambodia

Birding in Cambodia, Southeast Asia, with professional bird guides from the Cambodia Bird Guide Association (CBGA), based in Siem Reap, to help you find birds you would like to see. With various trips from half-day to 3-week itinerary in Cambodia.

Taking you to our 18 birding sites in Cambodia:

1. Prek Toal Bird Sanctuary – Boat trip across Tonle Sap to the breeding colony of large waterbird.

2. Angkor Wat – Temples and birds at the archaeological park UNESCO World Heritage Site

3. Kbal Spean – Temples and birds at Kulen National Park

4. Phnom Krom Marshland – Wetland near Siem Reap by the Edge of Tonle Sap lake – best place for a half-day birding in Siem Reap

5. Changkran Roy – Bird feeding station, also best for bird photographing

6. Ang Trapeang Thmor – Sarus Crane Reserve

7. Florican Grassland – Bengal Florican Conservation Area along the Tonle Sap floodplain in Siem Reap and Kompong Thom

8. Koh Ker – DDF forest for forest bird White-rumped Pygmy-falcon and the pyramid temple

9. Tmatboey – Dry dipterocarp forest for Giant and White-shouldered Ibis

10. Boeng Toal – Vulture Restaurant for the 3 critically endangered vultures – Red-headed, White-rumped, and Slender-billed Vultures.

11. Okoki – White-winged Duck pool in Chhep Wildlife Sanctuary

12. Kratie – Boat trip to see the River Dolphin and Mekong Wagtail

13. Koh Samseb (new)- Birding on the Islands along Mekong River in the Sambor Wildlife Sanctuary for a great number of good birds (Mekong Wagtail, White-shouldered ibis, Green Peafowl …..

14. Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary – Evergreen forest for mammals and birds in the Eastern Plain

15. Chaktomuk Marshland – Home for Cambodian Tailorbird

16. Pursat Grassland – the place to find the Chinese Grass-babbler, at the southern floodplain of Tonle Sap

17. Bokor National Park – birding in the southern part of Cambodia

18. Phnom Aural – Climb the Cambodian highest peak in Cardamom Mountain for the Cambodian Laughingthrush.

Cambodia Bird Checklist - by Cambodia Bird Guide Association with Lynx Edicions - Birds of Cambodia,

Checklist of the Birds of Cambodia

Cambodia full bird checklist, follows the Field Guide to the Birds of Cambodia (July 2019), Lynx Edicions, by Cambodia Bird Guide Association.

Cambodian Tailorbird at Chaktomuk Marshland, Phnom Penh birds

Chaktomuk Marshland Bird Checklist

Chaktomuk Marshland target birds including the endemic Cambodian Tailorbird, Siberian Rubythroat, Oriental Reed-warbler, Spotted Owlet, Plain-backed Sparrow, and Dusky Warbler.

Cambodia Birding Sites, birding destinations
White-rumped Pygmy-Falcon at Koh ker beng mealea, bird checklist

Koh Ker Beng Mealea Bird Checklist

Koh Ker target birds including White-rumped Pygmy-falcon, Black-headed Woodpecker, Great Slaty Woodpecker, Rufous-winged Buzzard, Collared Falconet,

White-winged Duck at Okoiki

Okoki Bird Checklist

White-winged Duck, Bar-bellied Pitta, Banded Broadbill, Banded Kingfisher, Green Peafowl, Siamese Fireback, White-rumped Pygmy-falcon, Oriental Bay Owl and Blyth’s Frogmouth.

Oriental bay owl

Changkran Roy Bird Checklist

The reserve supports some potential wildlife including the target bird species Bar-bellied Pitta and Oriental Bay Owl, Blyth’s Frogmouth, Silver-breasted Broadbill, Common Green Magpie, Coral-billed Ground Cuckoo, and Himalayan Night-heron, etc.

Cambodian Laughingthrush at Aural

Aural Bird Checklist

Aural target birds: Cambodia Laughingthrush, Green Cochoa, Pusty-nape Pitta, White-tailed Robin, Coral-billed Ground-Cuckoo, Blyth’s Shrike-babbler, Chestnut-headed Partridge, Blue Pitta, Mountain Scops-owl, White-tailed Robin

bokor bird checklist, Chestnut-headed Partridge,

Bokor National Park Bird Checklist

Chestnut-headed Partridge and Silver-breasted Broadbill, Long-tailed Broadbill, Indochinese Green Magpie, Great Hornbill, Wreathed Hornbill, Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon.

Green Peafowl at Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary

Keo Seima Bird Checklist

Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary’s target birds: Orange-necked Partridge, Germain’s Peacock Pheasant, GReen Peafowl, Siamese Fireback, Red-vented Barbet, Golden-crested Myna, Great Hornbill, Grey-eyed Bulbul, Blue-rumped Pitta, Dusky Broadbill