World Bird Field Guides

:: Thailand

The Scoop

You have a couple of good options if you are birding in Thailand. One is Craig Robson’s Birds of Thailand (Princeton Field Guides) (ISBN 978-0-691-00701-4). This guide includes range maps. It is also available in hardcover (ISBN 978-0-691-00700-7). Another hardcover version was published in the UK as A Field Guide to the Birds of Thailand (ISBN 978-1-84330-921-5). Whichever version you choose, this book would be a good pick if you want range maps and if you know you won’t be birding in any of the nearby Southeast Asian nations.

Birds of Thailand is a condensation and reorganization of Craig Robson’s Birds of Southeast Asia (Princeton Field Guides) (ISBN 978-0-691-12435-3). If you think you might visit any of Thailand’s neighboring nations (and if you want to be prepared for potential new vagrants), you might prefer to get the guide with a wider coverage. Instead of range maps, it relies on text descriptions of the species’ ranges. It includes approximately 300 more species than the Thailand guide does. For more information about the guide and its various formats, see the Southeast Asia page.

Also Consider

A Guide to the Birds of Thailand (ISBN 978-9748567365) by Boonsong Lekagul and Philip D. Round is a very important guide from 1991. It is now outdated and out of print (thus hard to find and expensive). It contains Thai names for the birds and remains highly recommended by birders familiar with birding in Thailand.

This article was updated on February 3, 2008.

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