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V I E T N A M Siamese Fireback Grey-chinned Minivet On one morning we will take a boat across Ho Tuyen Lam to bird in the forest above the lake. (Ho means lake in Vietnamese.) We spend a day in the mixed forest surrounding Ho Tuyen Lam where the native pine forests abound with species such as Large and Indochinese Cuckooshrikes, Longtailed Minivet, Ashy Drongo, Slender-billed Oriole, Grey Bushchat, White-tailed Leaf Warbler, Greenbacked Tit, Chestnut-vented Nuthatch and the endemic Grey-crowned Crocias and Vietnamese Greenfinch, Spotted Forktail and the near endemic Yellow-billed Nuthatch. Interesting local forms of Eurasian Jay and Red Crossbill can also be found here. In the open areas we should see Black-collared Starling and winter visitors including Grey-faced Buzzard, Blue Rock Thrush and Olive-backed Pipit. In the evergreen scrub running through the pine forest and along the evergreen forest edge we should see Chinese Francolin, Golden-throated Barbet, Burmese Shrike, Black-crested, Red-whiskered, Flavescent and Sooty-headed Bulbuls, Brown and Hill Prinias, Verditer Flycatcher and Scaly-breasted Munia. Regular scanning of the skyline should produce Mountain Hawk-Eagle, Black-winged Kite, House Swift and Striated Swallow. Other birds such as Bay Woodpecker, Greater and Lesser Yellownapes, Greater Flameback, Barwinged Flycatcher-shrike, Grey-chinned Minivet, Ashy Bulbul, Rufous-capped Babbler, Silver-eared Mesia, Blue-winged Siva, Mountain Fulvetta, Yellow-browed, Blyth's Leaf, Grey-cheeked and Chestnut-crowned Warblers, Mountain Tailorbird, Little Pied and Mugimaki Flycatchers, Greyheaded Canary-Flycatcher, White-throated Fantail, Hume’s Treecreeper, Fire-breasted Flowerpecker and Mrs Gould's Sunbird. We will return to the town in the afternoon for a late lunch. The afternoon is at leisure for shopping, sightseeing or birdwatching. Day 12 Today we drive to Di Linh for a one night stay and en route we can bird on the Phan Thiet road. This area offers us the chance to see many birds from the good surfaced road including the endemic Orange-breasted Laughingthrush, the near endemic Black-hooded Laughingthrush, Whitecheeked Laughingthrush, Yellow-vented Green- Pigeon, Vietnamese Cutia, Long-tailed Broadbill, Grey-eyed Bulbul, Bronzed and Lesser Rackettailed Drongos, as well as Black-browed Barbet, Black-throated Tit, Indochinese Green Magpie, Vietnamese Greenfinch, Black-crowned Parrotbill, Black-throated Sunbird and Streaked Spiderhunter. Days 13 to 16 After breakfast, we drive to Nam Cat Tien National Park, where we stay in air-conditioned park bungalows for four nights. Nam Cat Tien National Park has extensive lowland semievergreen and some mixed deciduous forest and bamboo, which makes this park a must for visiting birdwatchers. We start our birdwatching around the park headquarters. We should find some of the park’s special birds here such as the endemic Orange-necked Partridge, the Indochina endemic Germain's Peacock- Pheasant, Pale-headed Woodpecker, Grey-faced Tit Babbler and Siamese Fireback. Green Peafowl are also found in this park, to see them we need to hike for about three miles (five kms) to Crocodile Lake where we will also look for birds in the wetlands. Other birds we should find at the lake and along the trail to the lake are Scaly-breasted Partridge, Banded Kingfisher, Red-vented and Green-eared Barbets, Redheaded and Orange-breasted Trogons, Great Slaty, Laced and White-bellied Woodpeckers, Black Baza, Bar-bellied and Blue-rumped Pittas, Black-and-red Broadbill, Golden-crested Myna, Asian Golden Weaver and Vinous-breasted Myna. Other species such as Collared Falconet, Thick-billed Green-Pigeon, Banded Bay, Asian Emerald and Drongo Cuckoos, Green-billed Malkoha, Great and Wreathed Hornbills, Blacknaped Oriole, Greater Flameback, Banded Broadbill, Rosy Minivet, Coppersmith Barbet, Ashy and Greater Racket-tailed Drongos, Racket-tailed Treepie, Oriental Magpie-Robin, Blue-winged and Golden-fronted Leafbirds, Common Iora, Olive-backed Sunbird and Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker are found here. With luck we may find Tawny Fish-Owl or Spotbellied Eagle-Owl during one of the evenings and we may see other owls such as Collared Scops-Owl, Brown Boobook or Blyth’s Frogmouth during our night birding. Days 17 & 18 After a final morning birding in Nam Cat Tien National Park we return to Ho Chi Minh City to catch our flight to London where we arrive the next day. Outline Itinerary Day 1 Depart London Days 2-4 Cuc Phuong National Park Days 5-7 Tam Dao Days 8-11 Dalat Day 12 Di Linh Days 13-16 Nam Cat Tien National Park Day 17 Depart Ho Chi Minh City Day 18 Arrive London Party Size Maximum of ten clients. Accommodation Comfortable accommodation in twin/double and single rooms, with private facilities. Transport By private coach. Includes All flights, meals, accommodation, transport, entry fees, services of the leaders, airport taxes and tips. Gradings Good 300 Cool to Hot Low Special Moderate Good Moderate Scheduled Vietnamese Cutia To make a booking please call Ornitholidays on 01794 519445 85
B O R N E O Borneo Island in the Clouds Saturday 04 October – Friday 17 October 2014 Leader: Mano Tharmalingam 2014 Cost: £5,199 single room supplement £540 MALAYA Kuala Lumpur Kota Kinabalu Sukau Danum BORNEO Lahad Datu he Bornean forests protect one of the most exotic and diverse faunas in the world. They constitute the greatest remaining area of rainforest outside T Amazonia. Characteristic of these forests are families such as serpent eagles, malkohas, hornbills, barbets, broadbills, pittas, bulbuls, babblers, spiderhunters, and a great variety of primates and other mammals. The flora includes a great wealth of rhododendrons and pitcher-plants, and Mount Kinabalu in Borneo holds an incredible 1,200 species of orchids. Borneo is the world's third largest island, and used to be associated with horrific stories of barefoot head-hunters running through the jungles with spears. The island was also the workshop of the intrepid naturalist-explorer Alfred Russell Wallace, who almost beat Darwin to publishing his (almost identical) theory of evolution. Borneo is a wonderful place to study evolution and endemism. On the towering heights of Mount Kinabalu can be found many of the Bornean endemic birds, plus many unique plants and mammals. Our visit to Borneo includes a three night stay in the park at Kinabalu, as well as four nights in the famous Danum Valley in the Rainforest Lodge on the Danum River, and two nights at Sakau Rainforest Lodge, where we have a chance to visit the famous bat-caves, where the essential ingredient of birds' nest soup is commercially harvested from thousands of pairs of swiftlets. Here we may well find wild Orang-utan and Proboscis Monkey. Throughout the tour, you will be led by one of Borneo’s leading birdwatchers, Mano Tharmalingam. This will be Ornitholidays’ eighth tour to Borneo. ITINERARY Days 1 & 2 We leave London on a scheduled evening flight bound non-stop for Kuala Lumpur. We arrive at Kuala Lumpur in the morning and catch the connecting flight to Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, where we arrive at midday. We transfer to Kinabalu Park, where we stay for four nights. Days 3 to 5 Kinabalu National Park is overlooked by the rugged peak of Mount Kinabalu, rising to 4,100m (13,500ft) and overlooking vast tracts of wonderful montane forest. We can begin exploring this special place, where the temperate climate has hastened the evolution of many local endemic birds and plants. The park contains eight species of pitcher-plant, 26 rhododendron species and an incredible 1,200 orchid species. Brightly coloured butterflies, many of them huge (such as the birdwings), are another feature of this extremely diverse park. We will look for flowering and fruiting trees, acting as magnets for the more retiring and camouflaged birds like barbets and leafbirds. Around the park headquarters we will look for species such as Indigo Flycatcher, Black-capped White-eye, Temminck's Sunbird, Sunda Treepie, Short-tailed Magpie, Sunda Laughingthrush and Sunda Whistling-thrush. Chestnut-capped Laughingthrush and Whitethroated Fantail are common; background melody is provided by the endemic Bornean Whistler and Golden-naped Barbet. Other endemics include Kinabalu Serpent Eagle, Redbreasted and Crimson-headed Partridges (elusive!), Whitehead's Trogon, Whitehead's Broadbill, Chestnut-crested Yuhina, Bornean Stubtail, Whitehead's Spiderhunter, Black-sided Flowerpecker and Mountain Black-eye. Higher up, at around 2,500m (8,200ft), the flowering orchids and rhododendrons and the views over the west coast are spectacular. Here we will look for Sunda and Friendly Bush-Warblers, Mountain Wren-babbler, Flavescent Bulbul, White-browed Shortwing and Snowy-browed Flycatcher. We may also visit Poring Hot Springs, situated at a lower altitude. This tourist attraction also has some lovely forest where we may find Bornean and Grey-breasted Spiderhunters, Rufous and Maroon Buffy Fish-Owl Woodpeckers, Everett’s White-eye and Orangebellied Flowerpecker. There are also some ponds where we may see Black Bittern. Days 6 & 7 After an early breakfast walk we depart for Kota Kinabalu, where we catch the flight to Sandakan. We drive towards our rainforest lodge at Sukau, but en route stop at the famous caves in the Gomantong Forest Reserve, where many thousands of swiftlets nest. This is an enormous cave system, penetrating deep into a limestone outcrop. The main cave is enormous and we should be able to find Edible-nest, Black-nest, Mossy-nest and Glossy Swiflets, often identifiable only by the type of nest they build. Licences are given to locals to harvest the nests, with the help of huge, alarmingly curved rattan ladders. Inside the temperature is cool and the floor is littered with centipedes, spiders 86 For a previous tour report or further information please call: 01794 519445
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