CUC PHUONG NATIONAL PARK

Birding Report

18-23 December 2006

Alan OwYong

Day 1 Hanoi

Doris and I decided to bird in North Vietnam mainly because of the cool and dry weather at this time of the year. Also this will be our first visit to Hanoi and there are a few rare species that I did not see during my last birding trip to the south in 1999. After several email exchanges with Hung Le, President Vietnam Birdwatching Club and Richard Craik, Marketing Director of Exotissimo

Tours, we decided to skip Tam Dao and spend all our four days at Cuc Phuong National Park, an evergreen lowland and limestone hill forest. This turned out to be the right decision.