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Tam Dao

 

Bird fauna : Hill and Lower Montane

Other features : None

Transportation : Car or motorbike. About 60km from Hanoi.

Accommodation :  Tam Dao is a well known tourism site, with numerous hotels, guesthouses and restaurants. Room rates range from US$8 to US$50++ per night

Permission : As a tourism site, all Vietnamese and foreign visitors can visit Tam Dao town without any permission. However it is necessary to get permission from the national park office to walk the path leading to Nung village. Accommodation and restaurants are available in Tam Dao town, which is within the national park. No guides or checklists are available.

Birding routes : 

The route from Tam Dao town, which lies within the national park, to Rung Rinh has long been the favoured birding route (known as the 'Contour Trail' or 'Water Tank Trail') but is currently being upgraded into a road. Short-tailed Parrotbill and Blue-naped Pitta used to be seen along this route but is unclear whether this will continue to be the case, after the road construction is completed.

Television Tower Trail:
Walking up the 500 or so steps to the television tower above Tam Dao town, birders may encounter Grey Laughingthrush, Chestnut Bulbul, and, if they are fortunate, Green Cochoa. Be warned: this trail becomes very crowded with noisy students on weekends.

The route to Nung village from behind the park headquarters is a good walk through forest, which may yield Ratchet-tailed Treepie and Black-throated Laughingthrush. Note that permission is required from the national park to walk this route.

Other small trails around the foot of the mountain and along the road to Tam Dao town can turn up Spot-necked Babbler.

   
Contact details : 
Bird list (source: BirdLife International Vietnam Programme) : 
  1. Chinese Francolin

2. Bar-backed Partridge

3. Grey Peacock Pheasant

4. Yellow-legged Buttonquail

5. White-browed Piculet

6. Greater Yellownape

7. Bay Woodpecker

8. Red-vented Barbet

9. Green-eared Barbet

10. Golden-throated Barbet

11. Red-headed Trogon

12. Ruddy Kingfisher

13. Black-capped Kingfisher

14. Large Hawk Cuckoo

15. Indian Cuckoo

16. Drongo Cuckoo

17. Asian Koel

18. Greater Coucal

19. Lesser Coucal

20. White-throated Needletail

21. Brown-backed Needletail

22. Asian Palm Swift

23. Mountain Scops Owl

24. Collared Owlet

25. Pin-tailed Green Pigeon

26. White-breasted Waterhen

27. Oriental Honey-buzzard

28. Crested Serpent Eagle

29. Crested Goshawk

30. Little Heron

31. Silver-breasted Broadbill

32. Long-tailed Broadbill

33. Tiger Shrike

34. Brown Shrike

35. Grey-backed Shrike

36. Common Green Magpie

37. Ratchet-tailed Treepie

38. Black-naped Oriole

39. Maroon Oriole

40. Black-winged Cuckooshrike

41. Black Drongo

42. Ashy Drongo

43. Crow-billed Drongo

44. Spangled Drongo

45. Black-naped Monarch

46. Asian Paradise-flycatcher

47. Blue Whistling Thrush

48. Siberian Thrush

49. Eyebrowed Thrush

50. Dark-sided Flycatcher

 

 51. Asian Brown Flycatcher

52. Yellow-rumped Flycatcher

53. White-gorgeted Flycatcher

54. Hill Blue Flycatcher

55. Siberian Blue Robin

56. Oriental Magpie Robin

57. Green Cochoa

58. Barn Swallow

59. Striated Swallow

60. Red-whiskered Bulbul

61. Sooty-headed Bulbul

62. Puff-throated Bulbul

63. Chestnut Bulbul

64. Black Bulbul

65. Rufescent Prinia

66. Slaty-bellied Tesia

67. Brown/Russet Bush Warbler

68. Lanceolated Warbler

69. Thick-billed Warbler

70. Mountain Tailorbird

71. Common Tailorbird

72. Radde's Warbler

73. Yellow-browed Warbler

74. Eastern Crowned Warbler

75. Golden-spectacled Warbler

76. Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush

77. Grey Laughingthrush

78. Black-throated Laughingthrush

79. Large Scimitar Babbler

80. Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler

81. Red-billed Scimitar Babbler

82. Streaked Wren Babbler

83. Eyebrowed Wren Babbler

84. Golden Babbler

85. Grey-throated Babbler

86. Spot-necked Babbler

87. Striped Tit Babbler

88. Chestnut-capped Babbler

89. Silver-eared Mesia

90. White-browed Shrike Babbler

91. Grey-cheeked Fulvetta

92. Striated Yuhina

93. Black-chinned Yuhina

94. White-bellied Yuhina

95. Plain Flowerpecker

96. Crimson Sunbird

97. Olive-backed Pipit

98. Chestnut Bunting