Bird Watching and Bird Species at Yok Don National Park Vietnam

Bird Watching and Bird Species at Yok Don National Park Vietnam

The Yok Don National Park is 40km to the west of Buon Ma Thuot City, right on the border between Vietnam and Cambodia. This is the only national park in Vietnam with dipterocarp forest which is deciduous.

Yok Don is the best national park in Vietnam for amazing novel bird species, especially the crested treeswift, yellow-footed green pigeon and several different species of woodpeckers. AdventureGreen includes the Yok Don National Park on many of our birdwatching tours in Vietnam.

Dry season and best time for birding at Yok Don: November through May.

Birding at the Yok Don National Park Vietnam
Birding at the Yok Don National Park Vietnam
Birding at the Yok Don National Park Vietnam
Birding at the Yok Don National Park Vietnam
Birding at the Yok Don National Park Vietnam
Birding at the Yok Don National Park Vietnam

Bird Species Spotted at the Yok Don National Park

  1. Ashy Drongo
  2. Asian Barred Owlet
  3. Asian Brown Flycatcher
  4. Asian Green Bee-Eater
  5. Asian Woolly-Necked Stork
  6. Black-Headed Woodpecker
  7. Black-Hooded Oriole
  8. Black-Naped Monarch
  9. Black-naped Oriole
  10. Blue-Eared Barbet
  11. Brown Boobook
  12. Brown Prinia
  13. Bubulcus Cattle Egret
  14. Burmese Nuthatch
  15. Changeable Hawk-Eagle
  16. Chestnut-Headed Bee-Eater
  17. Chestnut-Vented Nuthatch
  18. Chinese Francolin
  19. Chinese Pond Heron
  20. Cinereous Tit
  21. Collared Scops Owl
  22. Common Flameback
  23. Common Hill Myna
  24. Common Iora
  25. Common Woodshrike
  26. Coppersmith Barbet
  27. Crested Serpent Eagle
  28. Crested Treeswift
  29. Dark-sided Flycatcher
  30. Eurasian Jay
  31. Eurasian hoopoe
  32. Freckle-Breasted Woodpecker
  33. Gray-headed Parakeet
  34. Great Slaty Woodpecker
  35. Greater Flameback
  36. Greater Racket-Tailed Drongo
  37. Greater Yellownape
  38. Green-Eared Barbet
  39. Grey-Capped Pygmy Woodpecker
  40. Grey-Faced Tit-Babbler
  41. Grey-Headed Woodpecker
  42. Indian Cuckooshrike
  43. Indian Roller
  44. Indochinese Cuckooshrike
  45. Indochinese Roller
  46. Lesser Whistling Duck
  47. Lesser Yellownape
  48. Lineated Barbet
  49. Malaysian Pied Fantail
  50. Oriental Magpie-Robin
  51. Oriental dollarbird
  52. Purple Sunbird
  53. Red-billed Blue Magpie
  54. Red-Wattled Lapwing
  55. Rufescent Prinia
  56. Rufous Treepie
  57. Rufous Woodpecker
  58. Shikra
  59. Small Minivet
  60. Sooty-Headed Bulbul
  61. Spotted Dove
  62. Square-Tailed Drongo-Cuckoo
  63. Streak-Throated Woodpecker
  64. Stripe-throated Bulbul
  65. Velvet-Fronted Nuthatch
  66. White-Bellied Woodpecker
  67. White-Browed Fantail
  68. White-crested Laughingthrush
  69. White-rumped Falcon
  70. Yellow-footed Green Pigeon