OUR BIRDS
Bird watching in Bali is popular, but there are not many bird hides for bird watchers and photographers.
We have three Bird Hides here at Sanda Plantation Hideaway. Here we regularly feed the birds, although we want to make sure they keep foraging naturally. An increasing number of bird species now stay in the area and are now relative easy to see from the hides, at least most of the times.
Although we don’t call ourselves birders or bird photographers, we are keen to document the different birds we see and hear in and around our plantation.
We are also on a mission to protect the birds here and educate the village’s farmers that birds in the wild are worth more than the ones caught for the bird trade. We do this for instance by welcoming bird watchers and photographers, who start to discover our place. We have also released some barn owls in our valley, hoping they will help reducing the rat population and increasing yield from the surrounding rice fields.
Below a photo gallery and list of the birds identified so far.
Unless mentioned otherwise, all photos taken by us here in our plantation or at walking distance.
You can click the photos for a larger view.
If you are a bird enthusiast and believe we mis-identified a bird please let us know!
Videos TAKEN from our Bird Hides
Hi-resolution, so watch full screen !
Collared Kingfisher
Javan Banded Pitta – female
White-crowned Forktail – feeding
Bird List
The birds identified so far in our plantation or in and around the rice fields next to us.
Javan Banded Pitta
Orange-headed Thrush
Ornate Sunbird (Olive-backed Sunbird)
Red-legged Crake
Orange-bellied Flowerpecker
Little Spider-hunter
Green Jungle Fowl
White-crowned Forktail
Javan Tailorbird
Asian Glossy Starling
Common Gallinule
Long-tailed Shrike
Spotted Dove
Sangkar White-eye
Lemon-bellied White-eye
Scarlet-headed Flowerpecker
Fulvous-chested Jungle Flycatcher
Barred Button Quail
Common Emerald Dove
Horsfield’s Babbler
Collared Kingfisher
Javan Kingfisher
Javan Munia
Black-headed Bulbul
Yellow-vented Bulbul
Asian Cattle Egret
Javan Pond Heron
White-breasted Waterhen
Sunda Pied Fantail
Freckle-breasted Woodpecker
Black-winged Kite
Javan Heleia (Javan Gray-throated White-eye)
Common Iora
Rufous-backed Kingfisher
Crescent-chested Babbler
Cave Swiftlet
Brown-cheeked Bulbul
Chestnut-breasted Malkoha
Striated Heron
Square-tailed Drongo Cuckoo
Lineated Barbet
Javan Flowerpecker (Blood-breasted Flowerpecker)
Brown-throated Sunbird
Black-naped Fruit Dove
Javan Myna
Sunda Scops Owl
Greated Coucal
Oriental Bay Owl
Blue-eared Kingfisher
Intermediate Egret
Plaintive Cuckoo
Square-tailed Drongo Cuckoo
Pacific Swift
Scaly-breasted Munia
White-headed Munia
Oriental Magpie Robin
Javan Owlet
Golden-headed Cisticola
Ruddy-breasted Crake
Crested Honey Buzzard (migratory)
White-breasted Woodswallow
Gray-rumped Treeswift
Javan Flameback
Javan Whistling Thrush? (song only)
Bar-winged Prinia
Sunda Cuckoo
Coming soon…!
West Bali National Park - BIRD WATCHING
One of the most popular bird watching places in Bali and near to us is the West Bali National Park. Here a selection of the most commonly seen birds in and around the park. I took all these photos on a single day, just to give you an idea of how rich the area is!
We can help you arrange bird watching or bird photography tours in and around the West Bali National Park. There are some great bird hides, managed by local farmers and forest rangers.
