A day for Bird watching in around Ho Chi Minh City for more than 50 bird species

Where is the bird-spots around Ho Chi Minh city?

This tour is only “1 day” around Ho Chi Minh City, If you have no time to go far away, Why you don’t try to bird in near the Big City?

Ho Chi Minh City is a dynamic, crowded city (more than 15 million people) and always noisy with traffic, people… it doesn’t seem like an attractive spot for bird watching.
However, on the contrary, you can watch birds and take photos of them with a large number of species in just one day, or two days.
Some bird watching spots nearby the city center such as: Thu Thiem Urban Area, Tao Dan Park, Thu Duc City… you can easily reach by motorbike, taxi…
Some of the better places are in Can Gio island, where it will take you more than an hour by car and a ferry, to get to Can Gio mangrove forest, beaches, salt fields… to see native birds as well as coastal migratory shorebirds here.

Why can’t I see many birds when I go by myself?

There are many birders who are confident in their abilities, however, bird watching in Vietnam in general, and in Ho Chi Minh City in particular, requires you to have trained skills. Since the birds here are well adapted to stay as far away from humans as possible, they are always hidden and difficult to see. Therefore, you should hire a good guide so you can have the full experience of bird watching in a day or two in Ho Chi Minh City.

List of birds that can be seen in Ho Chi Minh City?

In Can Gio mangrove forest and fields : Golden-bellied Gerygone, Ashy tailorbird,Laced Woodpecker, Collared Kingfisher, Common Kingfisher, Black-capped Kingfisher, Cinereous Tit, Mangrove Whistler, Asian Green Bee-eater, Cinnamon Bittern, Yellow-vented Bulbul, Streak-eared Bulbul, Little Egret, Great Egret, Javan Pond Heron, Yellow Bittern, Striated heron, Purple heron, Grey heron, White-breasted Waterhen, Common moorhen, Baya Weaver, Asian Golden Weaver, Chestnut Munia, Scaly-breasted Munia, Great Myna, Chestnut-tailed Starling, Pink-necked Green pigeon, Orange-breasted Green pigeon, Yellow-browed Warbler, Yellow-bellied Prinia, Plain Prinia, Red-breasted Parakeet, Barred Button-quail, Brown shrike, Asian Koel, Greater Coucal, Plaintive Cuckoo…

In Can Gio beach and salt-farms: Chinese Egret, Grey plover, Pacific Golden Plover, Greater Sand-plover, Lesser Sand-plover, White-faced Plover, Malayan plover, Kentish plover, Great Knot, Red Knot, Nordmann’s Greenshank, Common Greenshank, Marsh Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank, Eurasian Curlew, Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew sandpiper, Red-necked Stint, Long-toed Stint, Temminck’s Stint, Broad-billed Sandpiper, Terek Sandpiper, Curlew Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone,  Caspian tern, Common tern, Little tern, Whiskered Tern,…

In some green park in around city center : Red-breasted Parakeet, White-crested Laughingthrush, Coppersmith Barbet, Black-naped Oriole, White-throated Kingfisher, Common Kingfisher, White headed Munia, Scarlet minivet, Ornate Sunbird, Copper-throated Sunbird, Dark-necked Tailorbird, Asian brown flycatcher, Common Myna, Spotted Dove, Thick-billed Green pigeon, Black-browed reed-warbler, Oriental reed-warbler, Pallas grasshopper Warbler, Slaty-breasted Rail, Germain’s Swiftlet, Barn Swallow, … 

Itinerary

Option 1 for a package trip a day cost : Full day will pick you up, then move to Can Gio mangrove forest, an Island district of Hochiminh city that has good habitat for birds: Grass and bush, mangrove forests, beaches, and salt-farms …

Option 2 for you just rent a guide, then he will joint with you by taxi (you will pay for transportation and all other things) and he will show for you about 30 bird species around some of Green parks, Thu Duc city, … 

You will have good deal if combine 2 options in a tour 2-days.

The tour includes all services: Bird-guide, private car travel (about 200km in a day), breakfast and lunch with a menu of famous Vietnamese dishes with unique flavors: pho, banh mi …; local fruit; Drinks, and nice Vietnam coffee…

Pallas’s grasshopper Warbler

Nordmann’s Greenshank

Malaysian Plover

Long-toed Stint

Great Knot

Kentish Plover

Common Kingfisher

Collared Kingfisher

Brown Shrike

Black-winged Stilt

Black-tailed Gull and Caspian Tern

Asian Green Bee-eater

White-faced Plover

Terek Sandiper

Striated Heron

Scaly-breasted Munia

Red-breasted Parakeet

Plaintive Cuckoo

Ornate Sunbird

Marsh Sandpiper

Great Myna

Black-crowned Night-heron

Wood Sandpiper

Ruddy Turnstone

Plain Prinia

Oriental reed-warbler

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