Thaibirds and more

Vietnam 14-21st of March 2017 This was a long overdue trip. For various reasons I had not visited Vietnam previously but this time everything seemed just right. My friend Stijn de Win and I left from Bangkok to Ho Chi Min with Airasia.  Less than 2 hours away we landed in a modern airport. Getting luggage and going through immigrations was a breeze. Our prearranged agent was waiting for us with transportation and soon we were on the roads of Ho Chi Min. Lots of both motorbikes and cars made it slow to get out of town but once out we find ourselves on a new multiple lane highway we whisked through the landscape. Once off the highway the road was more crowded but still nicely paved and we arrived to Cat Tien National Park just after noon. We stayed at spacious AC accommodations inside the park where there also was a restaurant with good food and plenty of cold beers. A lot of the birds here are the same as in Thailand so I recognized a lot of the sounds. But the reason for co

Here are two birds often mixed up. 1st is a Pale Blue Flycatcher.....this bird prefers to perch inside the shades of the forest and I have not seen it on an open exposed branch....... http://www.xeno-canto.org/213578 2nd is Verditer Flycatcher which is a much more commonly seen bird as it is often seen perched in the open. http://www.xeno-canto.org/255731 Both birds are widely distributed in SEA and South Asia. They dont belong to the same genus. Pale Blue being a cyornis and Verditer part of the much smaller group of Eumyias.. Both pix from Bhutan