Handetour.Com’s travel experts recommend few bird watching tours Vietnam and Top 09 Places for Bird Watching in Vietnam
(TRAVPR.COM) PLEASE SELECT - February 9th, 2015 - Besides long history, rich culture and beautiful landscape, Vietnam is an attractive destination for birders all around the world. With 30 Vietnam National Parks covering a total area of approximately 10,350,000km2 (620km2 on sea), accounting for 2.93% of the country’ land area, including Ba Be national park, Bai Tu Long national park, Hoang Lien national park, Tam Dao national park, Xuan Son national park, Ba Vi national park, Cat Ba national park, Xuan Thuy national park, Cuc Phuong national park, Ben En national park, Pu Mat national park, Vu Quang national park, Phong Nha - Ke Bang national park, Bach Ma national park, Nui Chua national park, Bidoup Nui Ba national park, Cat Tien national park, Phuoc Binh national park, Chu Mon Ray national park, Chu Yang Sin national park, Kon Ka Kinh national park, Yok Don national park, Lo Go Xa Mat national park, Tram Chim national park, Mui Ca Mau national park, U Minh Ha national park, U Minh Thuong national park, Phu Quoc national park, Con Dao national park, Vietnam has a total of 848 bird species, of which thirteen are endemic, three have been introduced by humans and nine are rare or accidental, one species listed is extirpated in Vietnam and is not included in the species count, forty-three species are globally threatened.
Handetour.Com’s travel experts recommend few bird watching tours Vietnam and Top 09 Places for Bird Watching in Vietnam
01 – Cuc Phuong National Park
Cuc Phuong national park with 222 sq km of primary tropical forest remains home to an amazing variety of animal and plant life: 307species of bird, 133species of mammal, 122species of reptile, 2000 plant species and counting. Cuc Phuong national park is a worthy place for bird watching.
02 – Tam Dao National Park
Tam Dao National Park is a protected area zone in North Vietnam, 85km from Hanoi. Tam Dao town was established by French colonists in 1907 as a tranquil hill resort in northern Vietnam. The national park has diverse animal species, with 840 species in total including 64 mammal species, 239 birds species, 75 reptile species, 28 amphibian species, 434 insect species,
03 – Cat Ba National Park
Cat Ba national park is home to 32 types of mammal and 70 bird species…, offering mountain hiking, forest trekking and fishing village walking, bird watching options for those who love bird watching.
04 – Hoang Lien National Park
Hoang Lien National Park – one of the important special-use forests of Vietnam – has total area of 29,845ha, including a high mountain system of Hoang Lien Son range, in which the Fansipan peak is of 3,143m high. Hoang Lien National Park is home to over 2,000 species of plants, 66 species of mammals, 41 species of amphibians, 61 species of reptile and 347 species of birds.
05 – Bach Ma National Park
Bach Ma National Park is a protected area in central Vietnam, near the city of Hue, covering 220 km² and comprises three zones: a strictly protected core area, an administrative area and a buffer zone. The national park has over 350 bird species and 132 species of mammals.
06 – Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park
Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park contains the oldest karst mountains in Asia, formed approximately 400 million years ago. Riddled with hundreds of cave systems – many of extraordinary scale and length – and spectacular underground rivers, Phong Nha is a speleologists’ heaven on earth.
More than 100 types of mammal (including 10 species of primate, tigers, elephants, and the saola, a rare Asian antelope), 81 types of reptile and amphibian, and more than 300 varieties of bird have been logged in Phong Nha.
07 – Cat Tien National Park
Cat Tien comprises an amazingly bio-diverse area of lowland tropical rainforest. The 72,000-hectare park is one of the outstanding natural treasures in Vietnam, and the hiking, mountain biking and bird-watching here are the best in the south of Vietnam. Fauna in the park includes 100 types of mammal including the bison-like guar, 79 types of reptile, 41 amphibian species, plus an incredible array of insects, including 400 or so butterfly species. Of the 350-plus birds, rare species include the orange-necked partridge and Siamese fire-back.
08 – Tram Chim National Park
Tram Chim National Park is a national park in Dong Thap Muoi, has become an ideal habitat of more than 100 vertebrates, 40 species of fish, and 147 rare and precious species of birds, especially the red-head cranes. The park is created to protect several rare birds, especially the Sarus Crane (Grus antigone), a species listed in the IUCN Red Book.
09 – U Minh National Park
U Minh Thuong National Park or Upper U Minh National Park is a national park in the province of Kien Giang, Vietnam, covering approximately 80.53 km2. It boasts of over 243 species plant, 39 amphibian species and 34 species of fish, 187 bird species.
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