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SARUS CRANES

  Huai Chorakhe Mak 5/6 th August, 2020   I started birding too late to see a Sarus Crane in the wild in Thailand. But then in 2011 a group of birds were released into the wild in a wildlife sanctuary in Buriram province. Since then additional birds have been released and the birds have started to breed producing a number of offspring. Currently there are about 110 birds spread out in the province.   The area of release is called Huai Chorakhe Mak,   5 hours drive from Bangkok. I have held off a visit until now as I didn’t   want to drive so far for just one bird. But now I felt the time was right and so it turned out to be.   I did spend a night and did some birding at Sap Sadao to look for some birds with a preference for dry dipterocarp forest. It was on the slow side but Paul Farrell came down from Khon Kaen and it was fun to do some birding together. It took me 4 hours to get to this site then the following morning another 2 hours to Buriram.