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Cuc Phuong Bird Watching

Duration: 4 days / 3 nights
Tour route: Hanoi, Ninh Binh
Transportation type: Car
Tour code: IET - VN 5.4
High light:  Hanoi - Cuc Phuong National Park - Bird Watching

Vietnam species
Vietnam is home to nearly 850 bird species. Of these species, 33 are considered to be globally threatened, meaning that they are threatened with extinction worldwide. Twenty two species are termed restricted-range species, meaning that their global breeding range is less than 50,000 km². Ten of these restricted-range species are believed to be endemic to Vietnam, meaning that they occur nowhere else in the world.

It is BirdLife's vision that there be no loss of globally threatened or restricted-range bird species from Vietnam.

Vietnam's threatened bird species

English name

Latin name

Status

CRITICAL (CR)

White-shouldered Ibis

Pseudibis davisoni

 

Giant Ibis

Thaumatibis gigantea

 

Slender-billed Vulture

Gyps tenuirostris

 

White-rumped Vulture

Gyps bengalensis

 

ENDANGERED (EN)

Greater Adjutant

Leptoptilos dubius

N

Spoon-billed Sandpiper

Eurynorhynchus pygmeus

 

Black-faced Spoonbill

Platalea minor

N

White-winged Duck

Cairina scutulata

 

Orange-necked Partridge

Arborophila davidi

*

Edwards's Pheasant

Lophura edwardsi

*

Vietnamese Pheasant

Lophura hatinhensis

*

Bengal Florican

Houbaropsis bengalensis

 

White-eared Night-heron

Gorsachius magnificus

 

Scaly-sided Merganser

Mergus squamatus

 

Spotted Greenshank

Tringa guttifer

N

Collared Laughingthrush

Garrulax yersini

*

Grey-crowned Crocias

Crocias langbianis

*

VULNERABLE (VU)

Spot-billed Pelican

Pelecanus philippensis

N

Chinese Egret

Egretta eulophotes

N

Lesser Adjutant

Leptoptilos javanicus

 

Baer's Pochard

Aythya baeri

N

Greater Spotted Eagle

Aquila clanga

N

Imperial Eagle

Aquila heliaca

N

Germain's Peacock-pheasant

Polyplectron germaini

*

Crested Argus

Rheinardia ocellata

 

Green Peafowl

Pavo muticus

 

Sarus Crane

Grus antigone

 

Masked Finfoot

Heliopais personata

 

Wood Snipe

Gallinago nemoricola

N

Black-necked Crane

Grus nigricollis

N

Saunders's Gull

Larus saundersi

N

Indian Skimmer

Rynchops albicollis

 

Pale-capped Pigeon

Columba punicea

 

Rufous-necked Hornbill

Aceros nipalensis

 

Fairy Pitta

Pitta nympha

N

Chenust-eared Laughingthrush

Garrulax konkakinhensis

 

Golden-winged Laughingthrush

Garrulax ngoclinhensis

*

Black-crowned Barwing

Actinodura sodangorum

 

Manchurian Reed-warbler

Acrocephalus tangorum

N

Beautiful Nuthatch

Sitta formosa

 

NEAR-THREATENED (NT)

Oriental Darter

Anhinga melanogaster

 

Painted Stork

Mycteria leucocephala

N

Black-headed Ibis

Threskiornis melanocephalus

 

Ferruginous Duck

Aythya nyroca

N

Lesser Fish-eagle

Ichthyophaga humilis

 

Grey-headed Fish-eagle

Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus

 

Cinereous Vulture

Aegypius monachus

 

Red-headed Vulture

Sarcogyps calvus

 

Pallid Harrier

Circus macrourus

 

White-rumped Falcon

Polihierax insignis

 

Chestnut-necklaced Partridge

Arborophila charltonii

 

Siamese Fireback

Lophura diardi

 

Band-bellied Crake

Porzana paykullii

N

Malaysian Plover

Charadrius peronii

 

Diademed Sandpiper-plover

Phegornis mitchellii

N

Asian Dowitcher

Limnodromus semipalmatus

N

Black-bellied Tern

Sterna acuticauda

 

Nicobar Pigeon

Caloenas nicobarica

 

Ward's Trogon

Harpactes wardi

 

Blyth's Kingfisher

Alcedo hercules

 

Great Hornbill

Buceros bicornis

 

Brown Hornbill

Anorrhinus tickelli

 

Red-collared Woodpecker

Picus rabieri

 

Black-hooded Laughingthrush

Garrulax milleti

 

Short-tailed Scimitar-babbler

Jabouilleia danjoui

 

Sooty Babbler

Stachyris herberti

 

Rufous-rumped Grassbird

Graminicola bengalensis

 

Japanese Paradise-flycatcher

Terpsiphone atrocaudata

N

Yellow-billed Nuthatch

Sitta solangiae

 

Yellow-breasted Bunting

Emberiza aureola

 

Vietnam Greenfinch

Carduelis monguilloti

*

Asian Golden Weaver

Ploceus hypoxanthus

 

DATA DEFICIENT (DD)

Imperial Pheasant

Lophura imperialis

*


Notes:

(N) indicates that this species is a non-breeding visitor
(*) indicates an endemic species to the territory

For more information about globally threatened species in Vietnam, visit the online version of Threatened Birds of Asia: www.rdb.or.id


Conservation priority setting

Resources available for biodiversity conservation in Vietnam are limited. BirdLife uses threatened and restricted-range bird species to set conservation priorities and, thereby, ensure that these resources are used most effectively.

Worldwide, BirdLife is in the process of using threatened and restricted-range bird species, along with other criteria, to define a global network of Important Bird Areas or IBAs. IBAs are globally important sites for bird conservation.

The process to define IBAs in Vietnam began in January 2001. This process is centralising and standardising data on bird conservation in Vietnam, and identifying conservation priorities. Specifically, under-surveyed regions and habitat types are being indentified, and currently unprotected sites in need of conservation action are being highligted . In 2002, BirdLife and the Institute os Ecology and Biological Resources will publish a directory of IBAs in Vietnam, which will be used to advocate suitable conservation measures for all sites among government decision makers, donors and other conservation organisations.


Globally threatened species

Many species are in danger of going extinct worldwide, as a result of habitat loss, hunting and a range of other factors. If the probability of a particular species going extinct is believed to be above a certain threshold, it is termed a globally threatened species. One of BirdLife's objectives is to monitor the status of bird species in Vietnam and to make this data available to the compilers of the Asian Red Data Book and Birds to Watch 3, two publications that contain the list of globally threatened species in Vietnam.

Of the 33 globally threatened bird species in Vietnam, most are reasonably well represented with Vietnam's protected areas system. Therefore, if Vietnam's protected areas are well managed, most globally threatened species and their habitats will be well protected. However, there are a number of globally threatened species that, for reasons of their ecology or because of gaps in the current coverage, are not adequately represented within the current protected areas system. In order to overcome this problem, BirdLife has implemented a number of projects to focus on these species.

In 1998, BirdLife and the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR) conducted a survey for Green Peafowl Pavo muticus in Dak Lak province, Vietnam. This was one of the few pieces of quantitative research to be conducted on a bird species in Vietnam. The results of the survey indicated that Green Peafowl was poorly represented within existing protected areas and recommended expanding Yok Don National Park to better protect this species.


Conserving Black-faced Spoonbills

Every year, the coastal zone of the Red River Delta is home to large numbers of wintering waterbirds, including several globally threatened species. These include the endangered Black-faced Spoonbill Platalea minor. In some years, one quarter of the global population of this species winters in northern Vietnam. BirdLife takes part in the annual global Black-faced Spoonbill census. In 2000, the total global population of this species was the highest recorded since the global census began. However, the figure for Vietnam was down on previous years, highlighting the acute threats that this species faces in Vietnam: principally hunting and the loss of intertidal mudflats, the habitat upon which this species depends.


Restricted-range species

There are 22 restricted-range bird species in Vietnam, all but three of which belong to the Phasianidae (partridges and pheasants) or the Sylviidae (babblers and warblers) families. Each restricted-range species occurs in one or more Endemic Bird Areas (EBAs). EBAs are areas that contain the global ranges of at least two restricted-range species. There are four EBAs in Vietnam.

The Annamese Lowlands EBA contains the global ranges of five species: Vietnamese Pheasant Lophura hatinhensis, Edwards's Pheasant L. edwardsi, Imperial Pheasant L. imperialis, Annam Partridge Arborophila merlini and Sooty Babbler Stachyris herbeti.

The Kon Tum Plateau EBA contains the global ranges of three species: Black-crowned Barwing Actinodura sodangorum, Golden-winged Laughingthrush Garrulax ngoclinhensis and Chestnut-eared laughingthrush Garrulax konkakinhensis.

The Da Lat Plateau EBA contains the global ranges of three species: Collared Laughingthrush Garrulax yersini, Grey-crowned Crocias Crocias langbianis and Vietnamese Greenfinch Carduelis monguilloti.

The Southern Vietnamese Lowlands EBA contains the global ranges of two species: Orange- necked Partridge Arborophila davidi and Germain's Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron germaini.

Surveys by BirdLife in the early 1990s rediscovered several restricted-range species that had gone unrecorded since their discovery in the first half of the 20th Century, such as Grey-crowned Crocias, Sooty Babbler and Imperial Pheasant. These rediscoveries were made during wider surveys of Vietnamese EBAs. These surveys revealed that extensive habitat loss has occurred in all EBAs, and that conservation action is urgently required if the remaining areas of habitat and the restricted-range species they support are not to be lost forever.

Consequently, one of the central objectives of BirdLife's strategy in Vietnam has been to establish at least one protected area within each EBA. With the establishment of Ke Go Nature Reserve in the Annamese Lowlands EBA, Ngoc Linh (Kon Tum) Nature Reserve in the Kon Tum Plateau EBA and Chu Yang Sin Nature Reserve in the Da Lat Plateau EBA, and the addition of the Cat Loc sector to Cat Tien National Park in the Southern Vietnamese Lowlands EBA, this objective has been achieved. The priority now is to ensure that these protected areas receive the financial and technical support they require to meet their objectives.


New species

Between 1996 and 1999, BirdLife discovered three bird species new to science: Golden-winged Laughingthrush, Black-crowned Barwing and Chestnut-eared laughingthrush.

Golden-winged Laughingthrush was discovered on Mt Ngoc Linh, the highest mountain in the Western Highlands of Vietnam. The species is known only to occur in montane evergreen forest above 2,000 m. In 1998, as a result of work by BirdLife and the Forest Inventory and Planning Institute (FIPI), Ngoc Linh (Kon Tum) Nature Reserve was established, protecting forest on the western face of Mt Ngoc Linh. In 1999, BirdLife and FIPI completed a feasibility study for the establishment of Ngoc Linh (Quang Nam) Nature Reserve, the boundaries of which include forest on the eastern slopes of the mountain. It is hoped that this nature reserve will soon be established, and that the habitats and species on Mt Ngoc Linh will receive the protection they deserve.

Black-crowned Barwing was also discovered on Mt Ngoc Linh but has since been found at nearby sites in western Kon Tum province in Vietnam and on the Dakchung plateau in Laos. All the known localities of this species in Vietnam are located within Ngoc Linh (Kon Tum) Nature Reserve.

During a field survey of Mt Kon Ka Kinh, in 1999 Chestnut-eared laughingthrush was discovered. Efforts to conserve this newly discovered species were given a boost when Kon Ka Kinh Nature Reserve was established in 1999. This species, together with Golden-winged laughingthrush, was also recorded in Kon Plong district, Kon Tum province, during survey in 2000.

Day 1 : Hanoi - Cuc Phuong National Park
Morning drive to Cuc Phuong National Park 160km south of Hanoi. Visit the Park Museum, the Botanical Garden, the look out and the Endangered Primate Rescue Centre. Later in the afternoon we observe the birds gathering in the lush rain forest.
(Lunch and Diner included)

Day 2 : Cuc Phuong National Park - Bird watching

Rising this morning with the sounds of the forest all around us, we head out for a trek through the lush rainforest that makes up the park. The trek will take in stops at centuries old giant trees. Picnic lunch in the park before we reach out the Muong minority people at Bong village. Diner and overnight at local home stay of Muong people. During the 20 km journey, view the wide variety of preserved bird species in the park and enjoy the sights and sounds of the jungle. Overnight at local home stay.
(Breakfast, lunch included)

Day 3 : Cuc Phuong National Park - Bird watching

Spend another second day bird watching. Start from the Bong Station, then follow a circular route viewing a variety of endangered bird species. The 6-km trail passes through a wood of giant trees, some of which are over 1000 years old. Return to the guesthouse in late afternoon.
(Breakfast, lunch included)

Day 4 : Cuc Phuong - Hanoi

After a late breakfast, we drive back to Hanoi. Transfer to your hotel. Tour ends in Hanoi.
(Breakfast, lunch included)
TOUR PRICE: This is a sample itinerary so the cost really depends on your hotel choice, number of people in your group and time of travel. Please contact us to customize this itinerary and price to meet your needs and budget.
 

INCLUDING
 * English Speaking tour leader (other languages upon requests)
 * All accommodations base on twin-share at bungalow
 * Meals detailed in the itinerary (B = Breakfast , L = Lunches ,D = Dinners)
 * A/C transfers and transportation.
 * Sightseeing excursions as outlined in itinerary


NOT INCLUDING

 
* International airfares
 * Travel insurance and bike helmet (compulsory)
 * Items of a personal nature
 * Alcoholic beverages and soft drinks
 * Mineral water beyond that supplied
 * Single Supplement

 * Optional excursions
 * Additional transport required due to any emergency situation
 * Personal expenses such as telephone and laundry bills

 * Visa fees
 * Departure taxes
 * Tipping for guiding


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