Myanmar Bird Photography tour ( 15 Days / 14 Nights )

Yangon – Hlawgar Park- Bagan – Ayeyarwaddy River - Mt. Victoria National Park - Inle Lake- Kalaw - Yangon

Myanmar bird photography tour is designed for all bird photographers who want to get all Myanmar endemic species and most of the endanger species of Myanmar at the important popular birding sites and famous historical culture sites, “The best of Myanmar Bird Photography Tour ” focus on all birders who want to make bird watching and taking photos of Myanmar birds on the same tour. In our experiences, all bird photographers recommend this tour for excellent photo opportunities. And also, the different type of forest, lake and swam area will give you to get different experiences. Our expected species will be 300 to 350 included all Myanmar endemic species and most of the endanger species. The key birds on this trip are as following:

Hlawga Wildlife National Park : Ayeyawaddy Bulbul, Racket-tailed Treepie, Rosy Minivet, Forest Wagtail, Greater Coucal, Ruby-cheeked Sumbirds, Olive-backed Sunbirds, Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker, White-throated and Common Kingfisher, Lesser Whistling Duck, Common Moorhen, Red-wattled Lapwing, Oriental Darter, Little Cormorants, Great Cormorants, Asia Openbill, Coppersmith Barbet, Green-billed Malkoha, Greater and Lesser Racket-tailed Drongon, White-rumped Shama, Black-crested Bulbul, Red-whiskered Bulbul, Red-vented Bulbul, Stripe-throated Bulbul and Black-headed Bulbuls. 

Bagan : Bagan is special area of Myanmar endemic species as White-throated Babbler, Burmese Bushlark, Jerdon’s Minivet, Hooded Treepie, Burmese Collared-Dove, Ayeyarwaddy Bulbul and Burmese Prinia. Other key birds are Laggar Falcons, Yellow-eyed Babbler, Long-billed Pipit, Vinous-breasted Myna, Brown Prinia, Streak-eared Bulbul and Eurasian Collared Dove, Burmese Shrike. Rain Quail, Barred Button Quail, Chinese Francolin, Plain-backed, Russet and house Sparrows, Sported Owlet and Barn Owl and Indian Nightjar. Common and Jungle Mynas, Green and Blue-tailed Bee-eater, Common Hoopoe and Indian Roller.

Ayeyarwaddy : White-tailed Stonechat, Sand Lark, Plovers, Wood Sandpiper, Temminck's Stints, White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Citrine Wagtails, Grey-headed and Red-wattled Lapwings. Pied Kingfisher, Common Kingfisherm, White-throated Kingfishers, Pied Harrier, Eastern and Western Marsh-harriers and any other Raptors, Small Prantincole, Oriental Pratincoles, Great Cormorants, Indian Spot-billed Ducks, Ruddy Shelduck, Oriental Skylark, Striated Babbler are very commend on Ayeyarwaddy river. Black-bellied Tern and River Tern are recorded on that river Ayeyarwaddy.

On the way to Mt.Victoria : White-rumped Falcon, Great Slaty Woodpecker, White-bellied woodpecker, Greater Yellownape, Lesser Yellownape, Common Flameback, Himalayan Flameback, Greater Flameback, Grey-headed Woodpecker, Sport-breasted woodpecker are recorded on the way to Mt. Victoria from Bagan. Alexandrine, Grey-headed, Blossom-headed and Red-breasted Parakeets are easy to see on the way. Rufous Treepies, Red-headed Trogon, Grey-throated Babbler, Golden-fronted Leafbirds, Swinhoe’s Minivets, Scarlet Minivet, Ashy Minivet, Small Minivet, Lineated Barbetm Red-billed Blue Magpie, Gray Treepie, Crimson Sunbird, Mrs. Gould’s Sunbird are easy to fine on the way.

Mt.Victoria : Key birds are White-browed Nuthatch, Burmese Tit, Mount Victoria Babax ( split from Chinese Babax), Black-headed Shrike-babbler, near-endemic Chin Hills Wren-babbler, Himalayan Cutia, Spot-breasted Scimitar-babbler, Sickle-billed Scimitar-babblers and Large Scimitar-babbler, Black-bibbed Tit, Crested Finchbill, Yellow-billed Blue Magpie, Fire-capped Tit, Yellow-bellied Flowerpecker, Black-throated Prinia, Brown Bush-warbler, White-browed Shrike-babbler, Green Shrike-babbler, Sported Wren-babbler, near-endemic Brown-capped Laughingthrush, Black-throated Prinia ( Hill Prinia ), Himalayan-buzzard, Oriental Honey-buzzard, Black Eagle and Mountain Hawk-eagles, Oriental Hobby, Collared Falconet, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Crested Goshawk, Ashy Woodpigeon, Mountain Imperial-pigeon, Yellow- footed Green-Pigeon, Wedge-tailed green-Pigeon , Large Hawk Cuckoo, Hodgson’s Hawk Cuckoo, Eurasian Cuckoo, Great Barbet, Golden-throated Barbet, Lineated Barbet, Blue-throated Barbet, Rufous-bellied Woodpecker, Stripe-breasted Woodpecker, Crimson-breasted Woodpecker, Darjeeling Woodpecker, Bay Woodpeckers. White-browed Shrike-babblers, Black-eared Shrike-babblers, Chestnut-fronted Shrike-babblers, Green Shrike-babblers, Small Minivet, Grey-chinned Minivet, Long-tailed Minivet, Scarlet Minivet, Slender-billed Orioles, Maroon Orioles, Yellow-bellied Fantail, White-throated Fantails. Eurasian Jay, Fire-tailed Sunbird, Green-tailed Sunbird. Yellow-breasted Greenfinch, Scarlet Finch, Yellow-breasted Greenfinch, Common-rose Finch, Brown-bullfinch, Spot-winged Grosbeak, Chestnut and Little Bunting.

Bar-tailed and Hume’s Treecreepers. White-tailed and Chestnut-vented Nuthatches, Scaly, Eyebrowed Thrush, Grey-sided Thrush and Blue Whistling-thrush. Indian-blue Robin, Himalayan Bluetail, Grey Bushchat, Black Redstart, Blue-fronted Redstart, White-tailed, Ultramarine, Little Pied, Rufous-gorgeted, Dark-sided, Slaty-blue and Taiga Flycatchers. Large and Rufous-bellied Niltava. Japanese Tit, Green-backed Tit and Yellow-cheeked Tit. Striated, Sooty-headed, Mountain, Flavescent, Himalayan Black Bulbuls. Aberrant, Brown, Brownish-flanked Bush-warblers. Mountain Tailorbird, Grey-billed, Slaty-bellied, Chestnut-headed Tesias. Black-faced, Whistler’s, Grey-crowned, Chestnut-crowned, Buff-barred and other Warblers. Buff-breasted (Blacked Throated), Sport-breasted and Grey-headed Parrotbills. White-browed, Rusty-capped, Nepal and Streak-throated Fulvettas. Whiskered, Striated and Stripe-throated Yuhinas. Streak-breasted and White-browned Babblers. Blue-winged, Assam (slit from Chestnut-crowned), Striated, Striped, Lesser and Greater Necklaced Laughingthrushs and Crimson-faced Liocichlas. Blue-winged Siva. Bar-throated (Chestnut-tailed), Red-tailed Minlas. Silver-eared Mesia, Grey and Dark-backed Sibias. Streak-throated and Resty-fronted Barwings and any other winter visitor birds. If you are lucky, you will see Blyth’s Tragopan, Kalij Pheasant, Mrs Hume’s Pheasant, and any other Partridges, Hodgson’s Frogmouth, Grey Nightjar and any owls are recorded.

Kalaw : Burmese Prinia, Dark-backed Sibia, Burmese Yuhina, Black-tailed Crakes, White-browed and Rusty-cheeked Scimitar-babblers, White-browed and Green Shrike-babblers, Hume's Treecreeper, Lesser Necklaced , Black-throated , White-browed Laughingthrushs, White-crowned and Black-backed Forktails, Indochinese Black-winged Cuckooshrikes, Speckled Piculet,Wedge-tailed, Yellow-footed and Pin-tailed Green-pigeons, Mrs. Gould's Sunbird, Black-throated Sunbird, Green-tailed Sunbird, Little Pied Flycatcher, Hill-blued Flycatcher and Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher, Pale Blue Flycatcher, Brown-breasted Flycatcher, Taiga Flycatcher, Ultramarine Flycatcher and Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher, Blue-winded Leafbird and Golden-fronted Leafbird, Red-billed Blue Magpies, Himalayan Buzzard, Rufous-winged Buzzard, Long-legged Buzzard, Spetacled Barwin, Chestnut Bunting, Black-headed Greenfinch, White-tailed Robin, Silver-eared Mesia, White-capped Water-redstart, Grey-cheeked Fulvetta. Himalayan Black Bulbul, Red-vented Bulbul, Ashy Bulbul, Brown-breasted Bulbul, Black-headed Bulbul, Flavescent Bulbul, Crested Finchbill, Slender-billed Oriole, Black-hooded Oriole and Maroon Orioles, Black-collared Starling, Asian Pied Starling, Chestnut-tailed Starling, Black-throated Tit, Japanese [Great] Tit, Yellow-cheeked Tit, Long-tailed Broadbill, Silver-Breasted Broadbill, Chestnut-headed Tesias, Black-breasted Thrushe, Orange-headed thrush, Blue Rock Thrush, Warblers and many visitors are easy to see in Kalaw. About 300 Species are recorded only in Kalaw.

Inle Lake : Jerdon’s Bushchat, Collared Myna and Rufous-rumped Grassbird are key species on the lake. White-vented Myna, Crested Myna, Common Myna. Jungle Mynas, Bluethroat, Clamorous Reed-Warbler, Oriental Reed-warblers, Plain Prinia, Yellow-bellied Prinias, Striated Grassbird, Easten Stonechats, Purple Swamphen, Common Coot, Common Moorhen, Ruddy-breasted and Black-tailed Crakes, Pheasant-tailed and Bronze-winged Jacanas, Cinnamon and Yellow Bitterns, Sport-billed Ducks, Gulls, Egrets and Pond-herons, Swamphen, Glossy Ibis, Northern Pintail, Gray-headed Lapwing, Marsh Sandpiper, Common and Pintail Snipe, Red Avadavat, Scaly-breasted Munia, Yellow Wagtail, Citrine Wagtail, White Wagtail are easy to see on the lake also.

Information Sheet

Itinerary

	Day 1	:	Yangon arrival
	Day 2	:	Yangon – Hlawgar Park – Bagan by car and flight
	Day 3	:	Bagan & Ayeyarwaddy river by car and boat
	Day 4	:	Bagan – Mt. Victoria by car
	Day 5	:	Mt. Victoria by car and walking
	Day 6	:	Mt. Victoria by car and walking
	Day 7	:	Mt. Victoria by car and walking
	Day 8	:	Mt. Victoria by car and walking
	Day 9	:	Mt. Victoria – Bagan by car
	Day 10	:	Bagan – Inle lake by flight and boat
	Day 11	:	Birding at Inle lake and transfer to Kalaw by boat and car in the evening
	Day 12	:	Birding at Kalaw by car and walking
	Day 13	:	Birding at Kalaw by car and walking
	Day 14	:	Kalaw – Yangon by flight
	Day 15	:	Yangon departure

 

Route Map

 

Optional Tours:

Attraction and key bird		Destination
	JERDON'SBABBLER & SARUS CRANE Expectation ( 2 days/ 3 Nights ) from Yangon		Maubin, Pantanaw, Shwelaung and Einme in Ayeyarwaddy Division
	SPOON-BILLED SANDPIPER Expectation ( 4 day / 3 night ) from Yangon		Kyaikto, Gulf of Moattama
	GURNEY’S PITTA Expectation ( 5 days / 4 night ) from Yangon		Tanintharyi Davision
	Birding by elephant trekking at Wood pecker Land ( 4 days / 3 nights ) form Bagan / Mandalay		Alaungdawkassapa National Park