Bird spotting outside our garden
See below for our regularly updated observations (date and time, English and scientific name, pic source). Birds are spotted elsewhere in Kalaw area (our lake area, Myint Ka, the forests around Thitaw Lay House) or elsewhere in Myanmar.
Most pictures are simply googled or found through Our plan for 2016-17 is to steadily replace the internet pictures by our own material (smartphone pics through the Celestron scope).
We will be very grateful for any text contribution, correction or mentioning of a copyright issue.

Kalaw Lake
03/01/16 1pm Chinese Pond-Heron Ardeola bacchus

Kalaw Lake
30/01/16 11am Silver-eared Mesia Leiothrix argentauris

Kalaw Lake
30/01/16 11am Flavescent Bulbul Pycnonotus flavescens

TTLH Forest
01/02/16 10am Black-crested Bulbul Pycnonotus flaviventris

Kalaw Lake
26/03/16 8am Grey Wagtail
Motacilla cinerea

Kalaw Lake
26/03/16 10am Chinese Pond-Heron Ardeola bacchus (breeding)

Nay Pyi Taw
20/07/16 10am Yellow Bittern
Ixobrychus sinensis

Nay Pyi Taw
19/07/16 5pm Pheasant-tailed Jacana
Hydrophasianus chirurgus

Myint Ga
25/10/16 11am White-tailed Stonechat Saxicola leucurus

TTLH Forest
09/02/17 11am Chestnut-capped Babbler
Timalia pileata

Thazi area
12/04/17 3pm Intermediate Egret
Ardea intermedia

Kalaw Lake
11/04/17 5pm Maroon Oriole
Oriolus traillii

TTLH Forest
04/04/17 2pm Spectacled Barwing
Actinodura ramsayi

TTLH Forest
04/04/17 3pm Burmese Shrike
Lanius collurioides

TTLH Forest
04/04/17 2pm Black-naped Monarch
Hypothymis azurea

Thazi area
01/05/17 6pm Cotton Pygmy-Goose
Nettapus coromandelianus

Thazi area
01/05/17 12pm Western Cattle Egret
Bubulcus ibis

Heho area
13/05/17 1pm Black-shouldered Kite
Elanus caeruleus

Nay Pyi Taw
28/05/17 3pm Watercock
Gallicrex cinerea

Yenangyaung
19/06/17 10am Blue-tailed Bee-eater
Merops philippinus

Yenangyaung
18/06/17 10am Streak-eared Bulbul Pycnonotus conradi

Nay Pyi Taw
07/09/17 6pm Little Grebe
Tachybaptus ruficollis

TTLH Forest
17/12/17 11am Streak-throated Woodpecker Picus xanthopygaeus

Heho area
30/01/18 10am Pied Harrier
Circus melanoleucos

TTLH neighborhood
30/01/16 2pm White-vented Myna Acridotheres grandis

TTLH neighborhood
01/02/16 8am Collared Myna Acridotheres albocinctus

Kalaw Lake
26/03/16 7am Crested Finchbill Spizixos canifrons

Kalaw Lake
26/03/16 9am Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus

Kalaw Lake
23/04/16 10am Thick-billed Green-Pigeon
Treron curvirostra

Kalaw Lake
23/04/16 9am White-capped Water-Redstart
Chaimarrornis leucocephalus

Hlaw Gar NP
18/07/16 4pm Red-wattled Lapwing
Vanellus indicus

Hlaw Gar NP
18/07/16 4pmLittle Green Bee-eater
Merops orientalis

View point
25/12/16 11am Violet Cuckoo
Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus

Kalaw Lake
28/12/16 11am White-rumped Munia Lonchura striata

Kalaw Lake
06/04/17 4pm Red-breasted Flycatcher Ficedula parva

Nay Pyi Taw
27/03/17 3pm House Sparrow
Passer domesticus

Thazi area
12/04/17 3pm Little Egret
Egretta garzetta

Thazi area
12/04/17 3pm Yellow-breasted Bunting Schoeniclus aureolus

Kalaw Lake
06/04/17 4pm Black-throated Laughingthrush
Garrulax chinensis

Nay Pyi Taw
01/05/17 6pm Fulvous Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna bicolor

Thazi area
01/05/17 12pm Little Cormorant
Microcarbo niger

Thazi area
12/05/17 1pm Paddyfield Pipit
Anthus rufulus

Heho area
13/05/17 1pm Burmese Spot-billed Duck
Anas poecilorhyncha haringtoni

Yenangyaung
18/06/17 10am Blue-throated Bee-eater Merops viridis

Bagan
07/07/17 6pm Baya Weaver
Ploceus philippinus

Myint Ga
12/11/17 11am Sooty-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus aurigaster

Kalaw Lake
25/12/17 12pm Puff-throated Bulbul Alophoixus pallidus

View point
24/04/18 11am Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike
Hemipus picatus

Kalaw Lake
31/01/16 10am Yellow-cheeked Tit Machlolophus spilonotus

Kalaw Lake
25/03/16 1pm Brown-breasted Bulbul Pycnonotus xanthorrhous

Kalaw Lake
26/03/16 8am Orange-bellied Leafbird Chloropsis hardwickii

Kalaw Lake
23/04/16 8am Black-capped Kingfisher
Halcyon pileata

Myint Ka Forest
24/04/16 11am Grey-capped
Pygmy Woodpecker Dendrocopos canicapillus

Hlaw Gar NP
18/07/16 10am Striated Heron
Butorides striata

Nay Pyi Taw
19/07/16 9am Ruddy Shelduck
Tadorna ferruginea

Myint Mathi
28/08/16 4pm Siberian Stonechat
Saxicola maurus

Myint Ga
25/10/16 10am Barn Swallow
Hirundo rustica

TTLH Forest
08/02/17 2pm Gray-faced Woodpecker
Picus canus

Kalaw Lake
26/03/17 10am Asian Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx maculatus

Kalaw Lake
11/04/17 5pm Striated Grassbird
Megalurus palustris

Kalaw Lake
06/04/17 4pm Hair-crested Drongo
Dicrurus hottentottus

TTLH Forest
27/03/17 11am Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major

Kalaw Lake
11/04/17 5pm Pin-tailed Pigeon
Treron apicauda

Nay Pyi Taw
01/05/17 6pm Purple Swamphen
Porphyrio porphyrio

Thazi area
01/05/17 11am Gray-headed Lapwing
Vanellus cinereus

Thazi area
12/05/17 1pm Black-winged Stilt
Himantopus himantopus

TTLH Forest
21/05/17 11am Chinese Francolin
Francolinus pintadeanus

Yenangyaung
19/06/17 10am Jungle Myna
Acridotheres fuscus

Kalaw Lake
05/04/17 8am White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus

TTLH Forest
17/12/17 11am Black-headed Greenfinch Chloris ambigua

Kalaw Lake
25/12/17 10am Oriental White-eye
Zosterops palpebrosus

Nay Pyi Taw
27/05/18 5pm Lesser Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna javanica