Last Observed: 2014 – Koh Chang
Last Observed By: David Vinot
The house sparrow is almost a victim of its own success. They are so common that you hardly notice them. This is because they are the world’s most widely distrubuted wild bird.
That’s because they are extremely at home in human habitations, both urban and rural so as Homa Sapiens spreads so does the house sparrow.
They are a small bird with a maximum length of 16cm and weigh around 30 grammes.They feed aminly on seeds of grains and weeds, but also eat all kinds of insects, berries and pretty much whatever is around. One of nature’s true survivors.
Last Observed: February 2016 – Koh Chang Last Observed By: Tijl Adriaen
The brown-throated sunbird is a species of Nectariniidae bird found in Southeast Asia. Like their South American counterparts the hummingbirds these small birds feed primarily on nectar and they have adapted an extremely versatile flying style that allows them to almost hover as they feed on a plant’s nectar.
They are a small bird with a maximum length of 14cm and have a yellow breast and underside and an iridescent blue/black head, body and wings.
They have a loud and harsh call and feed on crabs, insects, worms, snails and that kind of stuff.
Last Observed: March 2016 – Koh Chang Last Observed By: Perry Stevens
The greater coucal is also known, endearingly if rather confusingly, as the crow pheasant. In fact it is a memebr of the cuckoo order of birds. they look a bit like crows though, except for the brown “jacket” that they sport.
They can’t fly very well, poor things and instead scramble around on teh forest floor looking for insects and also the eggs and hatchlings of other birds.
They are a large bird that grows up to 48 cm in length. Their deep, resounding call is associated in many places with omens, spirits and general spooky stuff, but that’s not the bird’s fault.
Last Observed: March 2016 – Koh Chang Last Observed By: Suthanai Krupanitch
The red-headed trogon is a medium sized member of the Trogon family of birds that grows to 34cm length on average.It has a number of subspecies with variations in colouration but the are all of the same overall species of bird.
Typically the bird favours upland forests as a habitat so and it is rarely sighted below 300 metres. But Koh Chang has some lofty peaks it is clearly quite at home here.
They feed on insects that they peck from leaves and branches and also catch in mid-air.
Last Observed: February 2016 – Koh Chang Last Observed By: Stanley van Broekhuizen
The tiny oriental dwarf kingfisher is one of the most attractive birds that you’ll see on Koh Chang or anywhere else for that matter. It grows to only around 13cm in length but has brilliantly shaded purple and yellow feathers and a bright red beak. Clearly camouflage isn’t its thing.
They live around small streams in densely shaded lowland forests.
They feed on geckoes, snails, crabs, frogs and various insect species.
Last Observed: February 2016 – Koh Chang Last Observed By: Suthanai Krupanitch
The ochraceous bulbul is a little brown bird. Specifically it is a Southeast Asian native little brown bird that is usally found in the mid levels of rainforests at up to 1,500 metres altitude.
Last Observed: January 2016 – Koh Chang Last Observed By: Oksana Babchenko, James perkins, Moni Von Bauer
The Blue or Indian Peafowl is easily distinguished from its close relative the green peafowl because the male is blue and not green. Given some of the identification challenges you come across this is an absolute walk in the park.
We all call them peacocks but that term strictly only applies to the male, the female being a peahen and the species as whole being called peafowl.
Anyway they are surely one of the world’s best known, beautiful and most distinctive birds and you probably know all about them already. But for those who don’t it is the male of the species that has the huge fan of bright feathers which it uses for display to attract a mate.The female is acomparatively drab brown and white colour.
Koh Chang has quite a few peafowl and it isn’t clear, to me at least, whether they are native to the island or have been brought in to decorate resorts such as Chang Park in Kai Bae. Whatever the fact they are native to this part of the world and are quite comfortable with Koh Chang as a habitat.
