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The sites visited on this trip have been selected to maximise the number of habitats visited in order to see a large number and variety of excellent species.

• Laem Pak Bia/Pak Thale is Thailand's premier shorebird site, the wintering grounds of a large number of wetland birds including the endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper.
• Kaeng Krachan contains some of the most intact and biodiverse forest in Thailand and a number of lowland forest species can be found here.

Day 1: A 5 am pickup from your hotel in Bangkok will see us arriving at Pak Thale for about 7.15am and we will immediately target Spoon-billed Sandpiper seeing species such as Long-toed Stint, Broad-billed Sandpiper and Red-necked Stint as we search.

Most of the day will be spent observing shorebirds and in the afternoon a boat trip to the sand spit at Laem Pak Bia will reveal a number of tern and gull species with the chance of views of "White-faced Plover".

In the evening we will look for nightjars before having dinner on the beach and heading to our accommodation.

Day 2: After an early breakfast we will head straight for Ban Krang campsite where we will spend the day walking along the trail through some excellent forest. Woodpeckers, Broadbills, Hornbills and many other impressive birds are commonly sighted in this vicinity and we will have an excellent opportunity to find many of these birds.

Late in the afternoon we will do some birding on the road as we slowly exit the park, where woodpeckers are common, before spotlighting for Owls and Nightjars near our accommodation.

Day 3: Our final day will see us back at Ban Krang searching for those key species that eluded us the previous day. If we have not already found them birds like Brown Hornbill, Orange-breasted Trogon, Great Slaty Woodpecker and Banded Broadbill will be targets, and if we have already seen them there are many other species to search for.

After lunch we will move on to some nearby freshwater wetalnds where we can find Baya Weaver, Pheasant-tailed Jacana, Black Kite, Long-tailed Shrike and a whole host of other wetland and open-country birds before heading back to Bangkok, arriving at about 9.30pm.

Nordmann's Greenshank

Spoon-billed Sandpiper

Greater Crested Tern

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