This is the photo of Oriental plover as we all agreed .

We saw this one at ATT quite early on September, today.

1st Sep 2012
   This morning SVC group, Mardy, Johnny, Sophoan, Naran, Chea, Kunthea, Sokheng and our Drvier Mr. Da went to visit ATT Sarus Crane protected Area. Today we saw such wonderful and it was an unforgettable trip ever has. 10 Greater Adjutants are feeding among hundreds of Painted storks and 2 Milky stork are seen there in the reservoir, but one bird, Oriental Plover was standing over there which made all of us really happy with any species of Wader such as;
-Common Ring plover
-Little Ring Plover
-Lesser and Greater Sand Plover
-Common and Spotted Red Shank
-Common Green Shank
-Wood and Marsh Sandpiper

-Barred Tailed Godwit etc

Just outside Phnom Penh...

On 5th August Ashish John, Colin Poole and Simon Mahood visited an area of pools and waste ground just outside of Phnom Penh and amongst other things saw:
3 River Lapwing
3 Lesser Sandplover
2 Greater Sandplover
3 +1 Alexandrine Parakeet
1 Robert van Zalinge

Dear All, on Jun 15, 2012, during a search for Gaur tracks in Western Siem Pang, Stung Treng Province in NE Cambodia, we (Mem Mai and Thomas Kuenzel) found a nest with 5 eggs which we tentatively identified as being from Blue-winged Pitta (Pitta moluccensis). We found the nest well camouflaged on the ground only because a bird suddenly left the ground a few meter in front of us. The relatively dark forest habitat were we flashed the bird did not allow for identification – from what we saw from the bird flying away low over the forest floor we were even not sure if it was a Pitta or not.

But we heard BWPitta calling in that part of the forest – DDF with bamboo parts along small streams.

After a short search we got aware about a relatively large dome-shaped grass formation  – and this was indeed a nest with difficult to see side entrance and with 5 eggs. Never before we saw Pitta eggs and were surprised about their relatively large size, but found later in Robson 2008 given sizes of 24-28.9 and 20-22.9 mm, and that the species is „fairly common to common breeding visitor“ in Cambodia beside nearly all over SE Asia.

According to Frédéric Goes (Birds of Cambodia - an annotated checklist) this would be  the first documented BWPitta nest in Cambodia, provided egg ID is confirmed.

We would like to ask if anybody is experienced enough with eggs to identify them. Photo will be sent to anybody who is interested in and who gives us an email address – for some technical reasons I am not able to add the photo here.

Thanks, and best regards, Thomas (thomaskuenzel2@yahoo.de) and Mai, both BirdLife Cambodia Programme, WSP PPF.

boeung pumpeay yesterday

went out for a short visit. Not an awful lot of birdlife around and the rain has not been enough to re-invigorate the swamp area so no waders seen.
few blue-tailed and green bee-eaters.

did see a pair/possibly 3 mongoose - plain brown in colour but species unknown on the track tothe rubbish pile.

boeung pumpeay may 2011

went out to camko city-  boeun pumpeay  -   about 30 ORIENTAL PRATINCOLE there on the  almost dry lake bed - looks like some pairs breeding

 

Boeubg Punpeay 31/12/2011

nice pair of Cinnamon Bittern  (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus) beside the road - one showing for several minutes. Plenty of egrets species and a single purple heron (my first for the location). also 3 purple swamphen ( also first for me here) and pheasant-tailed and bronze-wiged jacana.

 

Also a few common moorhen., ringed plover and common sandpiper. Seen from rear in flight was probable Barred Buttonquail.