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Wild Birds For Sale at Chatuchak Market
(again)
Wild
birds for sale at Chatuchak Market were
reported on Ike Suriwong's Phuket
Birders Blog on the 19th November and
are reproduced here with his kind permission.
"In
Bangkok’s notorious Chatuchak market
I found a stall selling the following
birds:
-3
Chestnut Capped Bee Eaters
-2 Hill Myna
-2 Asian Fairy Bluebirds
-1 Collared Scops Owl
-1 Green Magpie
-2 Lineated Barbets
-4 Bulbuls in such a sorry state I could
not clearly identify them
There
was also a shop further down selling about
six Blue-Crowned Parrots for 2300 a bird.
There
were a few shops in the market section
selling juvenile Alexandrine Parakeets.
Pretty sad to see this."
Notorious
is a good word to describe this market as
the illegal wildlife trade has always been
in operation there. On 8 September 2002,
I saw a Besra, two fledgling Blue-winged
Pittas, and a Slow Loris being openly offered
for sale, along with a number of other small
birds, many of which were difficult to identify
because of their poor condition. I haven't
returned since then as it is too depressing.
Any
similar sightings can be e-mailed to me
nickupton@thaibirding.com
and I will pass them onto the Bird
Conservation Society of Thailand.
Nick
Upton, 14th December 2006.
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