2025 Krabi Birding Field Trips – A Must for Nature Lovers!

[Page updated 9 March 2025]

Join the best Krabi birding field trip to see rare birds! The variety of birds will astound. Your Thai guide is excellent at finding birds birders want to see and the price is right!

Bring your binoculars, mosquito spray or lotion, and sunblock as you head out on a longtail boat with a roof and life-jackets to various birding locations in the Krabi mangroves area to spot some of Thailand’s amazing birds.

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Krabi Birdwatching Tours and Field Trips

2 or 3 Hour Krabi Mangroves Bird Field Trip by Boat #1 (Highly Recommended)

Itinerary:

• 6:30 am. meetup along the river in Krabi Town. Exact location changes often – we will tell you day before.
• 2 Hour Tour: 6:30-8:30 am. actively looking for birds in the boat on the river.
• 3 Hour Tour: 6:30-9:30 am. actively looking for birds in the boat on the river.
• 2 Hour Tour is just 2,900 for 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 people in your group.
• 3 Hour Tour is just 3,900 for 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 people in your group.

Birding by Boat Trip Includes:

• Private trips – just you on the boat.
• Average number of bird species found is around 20 on 2 Hour Tour. 30+ on 3 Hour Tour.
• Life jackets – 6 adult and 6 children’s life jackets on the boat.
• Knowledgeable Thai Guide of 20+ years experience. English not perfect. Bring photos to show species you want to target.
• Great Price! Up to 5 people are included in the price.

This boat ride takes you through the mangroves along the Krabi River where you can find many different species of birds like these from a recent birding report:

• Mangrove Pitta
• Brown-winged Kingfisher
• Collared Kingfisher
• Common Kingfisher
• White-throated Kingfisher
• Black-capped Kingfisher
• Red-throated Barbet
• Asian Koel
• Greater Coucal
• Green-billed Malkoha
• Little Heron
• Grey Heron
• Brahminy Kite
• White-bellied Sea Eagle
• Eurasian Curlew
• Common Sandpiper
• Common Redshank
• Pacific Reef Heron
• Little Egret
• Striated Heron
• Chinese Pond Heron
• Great White Egret
• Large-Billed Crow

NOTE – It’s time for Spotting the Mangrove Pittas!

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Krabi Birding Walk – 3 Hour Birdwatching Trek

Itinerary:

• 6:30 am. meetup along the river in Krabi Town.
• 6:30-9:30 am. actively looking for birds by walking along the river, and in the mangroves.
• 9:30 am. finish.
• (Price is just 4,400 for 1 or 2 people. 5,900 for 3 people, ask us about more.

Birding Walk Includes:

• Private trip – just you, not a big group.
• Average number of bird species found is around 15.
• Knowledgeable Thai Guide of 20+ years experience. English not perfect. Bring photos to show species you want to target.
• Cold water bottle!

Birdwatching in Nature Preserve

Includes:

• 5:45 am. Pickup and transportation from Krabi Town or Ao Nang.
• 4 hour walk around rainforest and agricultural areas with freshwater streams and ponds.
• Late breakfast overlooking a lake (included).
• Price is 5,900 for 1-2 persons. 6,900 for 2 persons; 7,900 for 3 persons.

Birdwatching Field Trip on Remote Mountain #4

Includes:

• 6 am. Pickup and transportation from Krabi Town or Ao Nang.
• Private 2 hours of exploring the rainforest on a small mountain.
• Price is just 4,400 for up to 2 people included.

Note – Field trips to see birds in the wild of Krabi are the same price for 1-2 people.

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Birding in Thailand – What You Can Expect

Thailand has a lot of birds you can spot. Krabi has its fair share. The state of birding in the country has not evolved to the point of say Costa Rica, Canada, the USA, or the UK. Thais just don’t seem to have the interest that people from other countries do.

Because of this, it’s difficult to find local guides who know birds – or anyone who does. Knowledge often trickles down from guides that are obsessed with birding, right? Here – we don’t have that. Even us, we’re desperately trying to learn all the different birds, it is a long process.

Recently, we lost our top birder who was Thai and could speak English well enough to get a lot of the names of birds across to people on the field trips. We are trying to replace him, but it may take a. while. In the meantime, we have people who know where birds are and who can put you on all kinds of birds.

For many of you, that’s what you really need. For others, beginners who don’t know the names of any birds and who could use a very knowledgeable English-speaking guide, you may not get all you need.

Good Locations to Find Birds in Krabi?

Here we made a page to show you the best places you can go yourself to find birds in Krabi.

Longtail Boat Bird Tour Through Mangroves – This is one of our ultimate birding trip, the one where you will see the most species of birds and the one that also offers glimpses of other wildlife in the mangroves like gliding lizards, mangrove pit viper snakes, and other cool stuff, even monkeys sometimes. An excellent trip you can choose for an hour up to 3 hours.

Find Pittas!

Khao Sok Bird Tour – a full day of bird watching as we tour the grounds of one of Thailand’s most stunning National Parks in the Surat Thani province.

We’ll be adding other bird tours to our site here as we learn more about where the best birds are to be found. In all honesty, we are not bird experts – and you’ll have to bring your expertise with you! We are learning, and we do know some good places to see birds. We’ll do our part – maybe you can teach us something about the birds we find.

Mr. Dai/Ann Birdwatching Locals

We heard that the old pro, Mr. Dai has passed away locally. He was a birding expert for many years. We also tried to find him for our field trips, but now we’ve found someone else who is very good at knowing where all the birds are, but he does not speak English well enough to tell you the species names. You’ll have to use your books and bird app to listen for and record the calls to identify some bird species. Mr. Ann doesn’t seem to be giving birding tours at all either, his FB page is old and not updated at all.

Please join us – we have had many successful field trips into the Krabi mangroves and rainforest to find birds with Mr. Dai’s replacement.

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