Mahachai Mangrove Research Station Checklist
(105 species : Updated 08/04/20)

More information on Mahachai Mangroves

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Species in black are known from the site from personal observations.
Species in blue are known from the site from the observations of others.

Common Name

Scientific Name

Little Grebe
Feral Pigeon
Red-collared Dove
Spotted Dove
Zebra Dove
Pink-necked Green Pigeon
Greater Coucal
Green-billed Malkoha
Asian Koel
Plaintive Cuckoo
Himalayan Cuckoo
Germain's (Pale-rumped) Swiftlet
House Swift
White-breasted Waterhen
Ruddy-breasted Crake
Black-winged Stilt
Grey Plover
Pacific Golden Plover
Lesser Sand Plover
Greater Sand Plover
Kentish Plover
Little Ringed Plover
Red-wattled Lapwing
Whimbrel
Eurasian Curlew
Bar-tailed Godwit
(Eastern) Black-tailed Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Great Knot
Red Knot
Broad-billed Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Temminck's Stint
Long-toed Stint
Red-necked Stint
Asian Dowitcher
Terek Sandpiper
Grey-tailed Tattler
Common Sandpiper
Common Greenshank
Wood Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper
Common Redshank
Spotted Redshank
Brown-headed Gull
Black-headed Gull
Little Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
White-winged Tern
Whiskered Tern
Common Tern
Painted Stork
Little Cormorant
Indian Cormorant
Grey Heron
(Eastern) Great Egret
Little Egret
Yellow Bittern
Cinnamon
Chinese Pond Heron
Javan Pond Heron
Striated Heron
Brahminy Kite
Common Kingfisher
Black-capped Kingfisher
Collared Kingfisher
Blue-tailed Bee-eater
Coppersmith Barbet
Freckle-breasted Woodpecker
Common Kestrel
Golden-bellied Gerygone
Mangrove Whistler
Ashy Woodswallow
Common Iora
Malaysian Pied Fantail
Black Drongo
Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
Brown Shrike
Racket-tailed Treepie
Eastern (Large-billed) Jungle Crow
Common Tailorbird
Dark-necked Tailorbird
Plain Prinia
Yellow-bellied Prinia
Zitting Cisticola
Barn Swallow
Yellow-vented Bulbul
Streak-eared Bulbul
Yellow-browed Warbler
Dusky Warbler
Arctic Warbler
Swinhoe's White-eye
Asian Pied Starling
Common Myna
Great (White-vented) Myna
Oriental Magpie Robin
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
Taiga Flycatcher
Brown-throated Sunbird
Olive-backed Sunbird
Scaly-breasted Munia
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Forest Wagtail
Eastern Yellow Wagtail

Tachybaptus ruficollis
Columbia livia
Streptopelia tranquebarica
Spilopelia chinensis
Geopelia striata
Treron vernans
Centropus chinensis
Phaenicophaeus tristis
Eudynamys scolopaceus
Cacomantis merulinus
Cuculus saturatus
Aerodramus germani
Apus nipalensis
Amaurornis phoenicurus
Zapornia fusca
Himontopus himantopus
Pluvialis squatarola
Pluvialis fulva
Charadrius mongolus
Charadrius leschenaultii
Charadrius alexandrinus
Charadrius dubius
Vanellus indicus
Numenius phaeopus
Numenius arquata
Limosa lapponica
Limosa limosa (melanuroides)
Arenaria interpres
Calidris tenuirostris
Calidris canutus
Calidris falcinellus
Calidris ferruginea
Calidris temminckii
Calidris subminuta
Calidris ruficollis
Limnodromus semipalmatus
Xenus cinereus
Tringa brevipes
Actitits hypoleucos
Tringa nebularia
Tringa glareola
Tringa stagnatilis
Tringa totanus
Tringa erythropus
Larus brunnicephalus
Larus ridibundus
Sternula albifrons
Gelochelidon nilotica
Hydroprgne caspia
Chlidonias leucopterus
Chlidonias hybrida
Sterna hirundo
Mycteria leucocephala
Microcarbo niger
Phalacrocorax fuscicollis
Ardea cinerea
Ardea alba (modesta)
Egretta garzetta
Ixobrynchus sinensis
Ixobrynchus cinnamomeus
Ardeola bacchus
Ardeola speciosa
Butorides striata
Haliastur indus
Alcedo atthis
Halcyon pileata
Todiramphus chloris
Merops philippinus
Psilopogon haemacephalus
Dendrocopus analis
Falco tinnunculus
Gerygone sulphurea
Pachycephala cinerea
Artamus fuscus
Aegithina tiphia
Rhipidura javanica
Dicrurus macrocercus
Dicrurus paradiseus
Lanius cristatus
Crypsirina temia
Corvus (macrorhynchos) levaillantii
Orthotomus sutorius
Orthotomus atrogularis
Prinia inornata
Prinia flaviventris
Cisticola juncidis
Hirundo rustica
Pycnonotus goiavier
Pycnonotus conradi
Phylloscopus inornatus
Phylloscopus fuscatus
Phylloscopus borealis
Zosterops simplex
Gracupica contra
Acridotheres tristis
Acridotheres grandis
Copsychus saularis
Ficedula zanthopygia
Ficedula albicilla
Anthreptes malacensis
Cinnyris jugularis
Lonchura punctulata
Passer montanus
Dendroanthus indicus
Motacilla tschutshensis

Please forward any additions to this list, or any notable sightings from Mahachai Mangrove Research Station, to me at nickupton@thaibirding.com

This checklist for Mahachia Mangroves is by no means complete and is not to be mistaken for the official checklist maintained by the national recorders (if indeed there is one) - it is only meant as a guide for visiting birdwatchers.

Email me at nickupton@thaibirding.com

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