Any bird-watchers here? Please?!

**Mr R Sole** · 04-06-2009, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by benbaaa

The dogs tend to catch and kill anything moving around on the ground, including snakes and lizards.

Be careful with ya dogs mate, A 'friend' of mine in Samui does snake rescue and told me of a persons dog..who they were quite pleased to tell him catches snakes!!!! till it was a cobra...then no more dog...they weren't so chipper after that... (remember a new born cobra or any other venomous snake has the same venom load as an adult!!!! be warned)

I live in Trang and they go nuts for these gorgeous birds in cages!!! It's just beyond me that they lock up these beautiful creatures in such small cages..

In my old town of Pak Chong we had them like you flying free around our house...great to watch them...well free as a bird...

Thailand the 'land of cruelty to animals' just look at their dogs for example!!! so what chance has a bird got???

I wanna bust them out of their cages...but I was told that some can be 'worth' up to 10,000 baht if they have a good whistle!!!! Hey life's very cheap here so they'd defo' whack ya for that shit....Think I'll just buy some from a pet store and release them infront of my neighbours...FARANG BAR!!!! I can hear it already

**Attilla the Hen** · 04-06-2009, 12:35 PM

Lucky sod. Never seen one in the wild before. Always in a cage and kept for song competitions.

**Happyman** · 04-06-2009, 02:48 PM

I have an aviary in the garden - not a bloody rattan cage !- 5 m long x 2.5m high X 1.5 m wide - 6 birds who live happily together - feed out of my hand - come in the house as long as the cats are outside !- breed - young once fully fledged are released into the local jungle ( the nesting area is divided and the young have no human contact before they are released)
Keeps me - and, I believe the birds happy !

pics of the "Head Honcho" in my gallery .

**benbaaa** · 08-06-2009, 03:27 PM

The three chicks are getting fat now - not just the grubs that mum and dad are supplying. We're supplementing their diet by putting old mangoes and bananas where mum and dad can get at them.

**benbaaa** · 09-06-2009, 02:51 PM

Good job I got that picture yesterday. All three chicks have left the nest today. Two disappeared completely and we saw the third trying to fly - he'd go about 10 metres and then crash land in our garden. We put him back in the nest twice, but he wasn't having any of it and jumped right out again. We think the whole family is now in the lamyai tree opposite our house. The mum and dad are there, anyway, we can hear and occasionally see them. But the chicks are too well camouflaged.

**Norton** · 09-06-2009, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by benbaaa

The mum and dad are there, anyway, we can hear and occasionally see them. But the chicks are too well camouflaged.

Great pics while they lasted. Hopefully they will stick around home and maybe you'll get a few more pics when the chicks start to get some color. Seems you are having fun watching the little fellas grow up. Their instinct to fly as soon as they can is strong. All part of the survival of the fittest thing.

This thread would work in the Family Room sub forum.

**Happyman** · 09-06-2009, 09:08 PM

Get that tray of mealworms fixed - they will become residents !!!

Nail it to the tree- chicks will see where mum and dad go shopping and will follow suit !

ENJOY !!!

**benbaaa** · 10-06-2009, 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by Happyman

Get that tray of mealworms fixed - they will become residents

To be honest, I don't think they'd get a look in. We've only got a small garden, but there are always birds here - sparrows and pigeons, obviously, but mostly those cheeky starling-sized ones who talk a lot and fight over food scraps. What are they called?

And Mrs bb's seen a humming bird sipping from a banana flower.

**Patrick** · 10-06-2009, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by benbaaa

And Mrs bb's seen a humming bird sipping from a banana flower.

Just a note.

There are no Hummingbirds in Thailand - they are purely a New World species.

Here in Thailand we have about 20 varieties of Sunbirds; they are usually larger than Hummingbirds but have similar feeding habits - hovering in front of a flower to drink the nectar, or to find small insects inside.

Patrick

**benbaaa** · 10-06-2009, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by benbaaa

those cheeky starling-sized ones who talk a lot

I guess those would be mynah birds, right? Not my photos, but this kind of thing. Quite aggressive.

**benbaaa** · 11-06-2009, 07:23 AM

Originally Posted by Patrick

There are no Hummingbirds in Thailand - they are purely a New World species.

I saw that said somewhere else. I didn't know that. Guess I should check out sunbirds.

**benbaaa** · 11-06-2009, 07:30 AM

Should've guessed. Google "Thai sunbirds" and the first five results are recipes.

**Tao** · 11-06-2009, 07:33 AM

Nice pic, i saw a bird like that yesterday.

**benbaaa** · 14-06-2009, 10:45 AM

I Googled some pictures of sunbirds native to Thailand, and Mrs bb confirmed it's one of these (not my picture):

Anyone know what it's called?

It's going to be a bugger to take a picture of - I haven't even seen it myself, and unlike the bulbuls, it doesn't have any particular routine as far as I can work out.

**benbaaa** · 14-06-2009, 10:51 AM

We're guessing it's an olive backed sunbird, (AKA yellow bellied sunbird?), but we're open to alternative suggestions.

**Norton** · 14-06-2009, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by benbaaa

Anyone know what it's called?

Mrs. Gould's Sunbird (female) or Fire Tailed Sunbird (female). Very similar in appearance so difficult to be sure from the pic.

**Norton** · 14-06-2009, 11:00 AM

Mrs Gould's Sunbirds were plentiful on several flowering trees, though unfortunately males were warier than females. A more obliging female.

Dig deep: December 2008

**benbaaa** · 14-06-2009, 11:03 AM

Ta Norts.

**dirtydog** · 14-06-2009, 01:38 PM

Maybe set up a food area for them and stick a webcam out there, do a live internet feed

**tsicar** · 14-06-2009, 10:51 PM

i am no bird expert, but i really enjoy them. stopped encouraging them to my garden coz the locals used to assemble there with their catapaults whenever i wasn't looking.
anyway, i digress:
one of the birds that visited occasionally was a hoepoe.
i am used to these birds, as they are quite common where i come from, so i definitely didn't mis-identify it, but i never thought i would encounter one in thailand.
are they supposed to occur in thailand?

**Happyman** · 14-06-2009, 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by tsicar

i am no bird expert, but i really enjoy them. stopped encouraging them to my garden coz the locals used to assemble there with their catapaults whenever i wasn't looking.
anyway, i digress:
one of the birds that visited occasionally was a hoepoe.
i am used to these birds, as they are quite common where i come from, so i definitely didn't mis-identify it, but i never thought i would encounter one in thailand.
are they supposed to occur in thailand?

Please refer to page 50 in your copy of 'A Field Guide To the Birds Of Thailand '
Plate # 22

Sorry - its been a quiet night !
Yes the Hoepoe ( Hoopoe ) you are not wrong - there is an alternative spelling - Upupa epops- is a commmon species - breeds throughout the country except for the immediate Bangkok area.

Cheers

**tsicar** · 14-06-2009, 11:38 PM

[quote=Happyman;1084228]

Originally Posted by tsicar

i am no bird expert, but i really enjoy them. stopped encouraging them to my garden coz the locals used to assemble there with their catapaults whenever i wasn't looking.
anyway, i digress:
one of the birds that visited occasionally was a hoepoe.
i am used to these birds, as they are quite common where i come from, so i definitely didn't mis-identify it, but i never thought i would encounter one in thailand.
are they supposed to occur in thailand?

Please refer to page 50 in your copy of 'A Field Guide To the Birds Of Thailand '
Plate # 22

thanx, you cleared that one up for me.

now, can you please tell me why the lesser breasted slant eyed yellow gobbler is so prolific in thailand, and why it has been so sucessfull in it's migration and adaptation to working bars and whorehouses all over the world?

**Happyman** · 14-06-2009, 10:47 PM

Cut an orange in half
Put a couple of spoons of sugar in one half - honey is better
Wedge it in a bush that you can see when relaxing with a beer or 2

They will come !!!!

**Happyman** · 14-06-2009, 11:52 PM

Not sure but anyway I prefer the larger breasted slant eyed yellow gobbler that can be found in selected locations in Taiwan !!

**Happyman** · 15-06-2009, 12:00 AM

^
Presently studying the Magnificently Breasted Indian Bed Wrestler - indigenous to Malaysia but can be an occasional seasonal visitor !

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