The
7th Raptor Watch Festival is scheduled for the 3-5th October
2008 in Chumphon Province, the gateway to southern Thailand.
Please join us to greet thousands of passing raptors as they
head to their destinations in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Anyone
wishing to join this event should contact Chaiyan Kasorndorkbua
for details: bnternstar@gmail.com
Additionally
the Weekend Hawkwatch will once again take place on weekends
between the 25th September and 9th November at its regukar
site at Radar
Hill, Prachuab Kiri Khan Province. All are welcome to
join.
A
total of 68,632 migrating raptors were counted throughout October
at the Radar Hill watch site in Prachuab Kir Khan province. The
peak count for Black Baza was 32,790 on the 20th October, the peak
for Grey-faced Buzzard was 467 on the same date. On the 9th October
the peak counts for Oriental Honey-buzzard and Chinese Goshawk were
1, 507 and 2, 980 respectively.
All the details
can be found on the Thai Raptor Group's website: 2007
Hawkwatch.
Photos from
the Hawkwatch can also be seen on the Thai Raptor Group's site:
Once
again, this autumn, the weekend hawkwatch will take place
at Radar Hill, behind the Khao Pho Highway Service Area in
Prachuab Kiri Khan province: Radar
Hill. The raptor watching events will take place on weekends
between September 21st and November 4th.
In addition
to the raptor migration counts, Chaiyan Kasorndorkbua of the
Thai
Raptor Group will be trapping and ringing passing
raptors with expected species being Japanese Sparrowhawk Aciipiter
gularis, Chinese Sparrowhawk Accipiter. soloensis
Grey-faced Buzzard Butastur indicus.
Visiting
birdwatchers and volunteers are welcome and should contact
Chaiyan Kasorndorkbua for more information: trogon@gmail.com
Information
posted on Oriental Birding Yahoo Group on 12th September by Chaiyan
Kasorndorkbua, Bangkok, Thailand, thairaptorgroup.com.
A
total of 56,988 migrating raptors were counted over the weekend of
30th September to 1st October. Nine species of migratory raptors were
identified: Chinese Sparrowhawk, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Oriental Honey
Buzzard, Osprey, Black Kite, Eastern Marsh Harrie, Pied Harrier, Common
Buzzard, Peregrine Falcon. For full details see the Thai Raptor Group's website.
2006
Thailand Raptor Watch Festival & Weekend Hawkwatch
This autumn the Thai Raptor Group are holding two
raptor watch activities to observe the southerly migration of raptors
as they come through the Isthmus of Kra bottleneck:
Thayang
Municipal Adminitration, Chumporn Province and Thai Raptor Group
(TRG) are the joint co-ordinators of the 2006 Thailand Raptor
Watch Festival, to be held on the weekend of September 30 - October
1 in Chumporn Province, southern Thailand. The count will continue
throughout the whole of October led by the principal counter,
Mr. Chukiart Nualsri. Birders who are interested in the raptor
watch at the Chumporn site are encouraged to join and may contact
Mr. Chukiart at bntern@yahoo.com.
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The Thailand
Weekend Hawkwatch at Radar Hill, Prachuab Kirikhun Province, will
be a weekly raptor watch and count which will take place on the
weekends from September 23 to October 31, except on the weekend
of Raptor Watch Festival; the weekend hawkwatch will be organized
for October 2-3 that week so that the two events do not clash.
For those who wish to join the watch at Radar Hill, please contact
Chaiyan Kasorndorkbua at fvetchk@ku.ac.th
or trogon@gmail.com.
More information regarding
these activities can be found on the Thai Raptor Group's website;
Thai
Raptor Group.
The count results of the 2005 autumn migration
at Radar Hill is summarized in the "Raptor Count Archives"
section in the following link; Raptor
Count 2005.
Information kindly supplied by Chaiyan
Kasorndorkbua
Bangkok, Thailand, thairaptorgroup.com.
