You don’t need to travel deep into the mountains to experience Northern Thailand’s incredible avian diversity. Our specialized Chiang Mai city-fringe birdwatching tours bring you to hidden urban hotspots, lush agricultural fields, diverse forests and peaceful wetlands—all located just 15 minutes from your city hotel . Excellent for first time birders or passionate bird photographers with little time in Chiang Mai.
Guided by experienced local bird spotters from All Thailand Experiences, you will explore highly productive low-elevation habitats. This private birding excursion delivers an easy, high-yield adventure that fits perfectly into your urban sightseeing schedule without the exhausting mountain drives.
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Announcement: Migratory bird season in Thailand (Nov. 2026 – Feb. 2027)
The best time for birdwatching in Thailand will be here before you know it! Bookings for tours are already filling up, so to avoid missing out, we recommend reserving your birdwatching tour early to secure your travel dates during this high season. Make your reservations here .
Birds listed below we have spotted on this 1 day Chiang Mai Birding Tour
Birdsunderlined in colorlink to their photo.
- Lineated Barbet
- Red-billed Blue Magpie
- Rufous Treepie
- Green-billed Malkoha
- Golden-fronted Leafbird
- Coppersmith Barbet
- Tiaca Flycatchers
- Yellow-browed Warblers
- Grey-breasted Prinia
- Green Bee-eater
- Chestnut-headed Bee-eater
- Black Drongo
- Asian Fairy Bluebird
- Silver-breasted Broadbill
- Crested Treeswift
- Drongo Cuckoo
- Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
- White-crested Laughingthrush
- Violet Cuckoo
- Asian Paradise Flycatcher
- Red Avadavat
- White-rumped Shama
- Hill-blue Flycatcher
- Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher
- Common Iora
- Stonechat
- Black-headed Bulbul
- Black-crested Bulbul
- Sooty-headed_Bulbul
- Streak-eared Bulbul
- Red-whiskered BulBul
- Striated BulBul
- Ashy Woodswallow
- Plaintive Cuckoo
- Rosy Minivet
- Brown-throated Sunbird
- Purple Sunbird
- Olive-back Sunbird
- Scarlet Backed Flowerpecker
- Wire-tailed Swallows
- Lesser Whistling Ducks
- Common Moorhen
- Cinnamon Bittern
- Great Bittern
- White-breasted Waterhen
- Red-waddled Lapwing
- Grey-headed Lapwing
- Little Grebe
- Mandarin Duck
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Chinese Pond Heron
- Little Heron
- Little Egret
- intermediate Egret
- Common Snipe
- Greater Painted Snipe
- Pied Bushchat
- Grey Bushchat
- Long-tailed Shrike
- Common Tailorbird
- Scaly-breasted Munia
- White Rumped Munia
- Chestnut-tailed Starling
- Black-collared Starling
- Paddyfield Pipit
- Olive-backed Pipit
- Zitting Cisticola
- Bright-headed Cisticola
- Indochinese Bushlark
- Chinese Francolin
- Small Buttonquail
- Rufous-winged Buzzard
- Common Kestral
- Collard Falconet
- Crested Serpent Eagle
- Changeable Hawk Eagle
- White-rumped Falcon
- Brown Shrike
- Greater Coucal
- Lesser Coucal
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Summary Itinerary: We will take you to 2 areas on the outskirts of the city to peaceful places away from the tourist crowds where you can spot up to 60 different species. These include paddy field birds, raptors, water and forest birds.
In parts of the area are rice fields with tall stand alone trees, a favorite perching spot for raptors looking for mice..
This is the only spot with any real marginal habitat for any water birds that are to be seen would most likely be found here.. Return to Chiang Mai and your hotel. Includes lunch at a nice Thai restaurant in the forest.
After you fill out the form below we will reply with a detailed itinerary and price. Please fill out the Chiang Mai Thailand Private bird watching form below and click on the submit button.
Price depends on how many persons in your party.
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