Birding Lodges of the World: Baan Maka Nature Lodge, Thailand


Which fowl species do you suppose is the largest attraction to guests to your lodge (please title just one species)?

Ratchet-tailed Treepie (in Kaeng Krachan NP, not on the lodge)

What’s the title of your lodge, and since when has your lodge been working?

Baan Maka Nature Lodge. Opened 2002, new homeowners in 2017

How greatest to journey to your lodge?

Taxi from Bangkok or bus from Bangkok to Kaeng Krachan and pick-up by lodge car

Bay Owl

What sort of providers – apart from lodging and meals – does your lodge provide to visiting birders?

Guides, disguise bookings (exterior the lodge), native transport

What makes your lodge particular?

5 Hectares of grounds with numerous habitats, early breakfasts, educated employees and homeowners

Kalij Pheasant

What are the ten – 20 most fascinating birds that your lodge presents good probabilities to see?

Over 230 species seen within the lodge grounds however a lot of the rarer birds seen within the park or on the hides which embrace Nice Hornbill, Tickell’s brown Hornbill, Silver-breasted Broadbill, Black-and-Purple Broadbill, Blue Pitta, Eared Pitta, Blue-winged Pitta, Gray-Peacock Pheasant, Ferruginous Partridge, Purple-legged Crake, Banded Kingfisher, Blue-banded Kingfisher, Black-backed Kingfisher, and about 400 others.

Slaty-legged Crake

What’s the greatest time to go to your lodge, and why?

For fowl watching – Dec to Mar as all of the winter guests are round and a visit to the coast for Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Asian Dowitcher, and Nordmann’s Greenshank is feasible.
For fowl images – Apr to June because the resident birds are nesting, together with broadbills, pittas, kingfishers, and woodpeckers.

Blue-winged Pitta

Is your lodge concerned in conservation efforts? If sure, please describe them.

No

What different options are you able to give to birders involved in visiting your lodge?

Keep about 4 nights to have time to go to the park, the hides and spend a while within the lodge grounds.

Siberian Rubythroat

Do you could have actions for non-birders? In that case, please describe.

Kayaks, nature trails.

If any reader of 10,000 Birds is involved in staying at your lodge, how can they greatest contact you?

Go to our web site at www.baanmaka.com then write to us at baanmaka@yahoo.com

Yellow-rumped Flycatcher

All images taken on the grounds of the lodge.



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