What's the translation in English of a bird called "nok kra taa" ? I could not find it in my Thai dictionary. It makes an unpleasant harsh sound. Anyone who knows ?

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What's the translation in English of a bird called "nok kra taa" ? I could not find it in my Thai dictionary. It makes an unpleasant harsh sound. Anyone who knows ?

i think its means something like a Quail

Thais like to eat the small speckled eggs

นกกระทา

A couple of dictionaries I looked in translated it as a partridge. Some on-line sites say partridge or quail.

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Thanks for that connection. I am now able to identify 4 species that I saw and didn't know the name of near my hotel just outside Chiang Mai. There is a pond out my back window and I often see a variety of shore birds and a few other interesting species. The Black winged stilt is an occasional visitor and the Chinese egret and the Chinese pond heron are quite common. I always wondered what the big black and red bird was that few in front of me and landed in a tree nearby. It kept hopping around and I never got a photo of it. Now I see it was a Greater Coucal. And, a bird that had an interesting song when I was hiking up the Doi Suthep trail was a Garralax Leucolophus. I got a few photos of it high in the tree but the quality wasn't all that great.

The Greater Coucal has a whooping great sound.

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These birds were right behind my accommodation. There were quite a few of them, the owner raised them to sell. These birds did start to produce their sound at around 6 am and were being shut up at around 6 pm. I did calculate they "expressed theirselves" in total about 2500 times per day, part of the reason why I left that accommodation. Actually I never got to see them, because it was a bit difficult to get there and they couldn't be seen from my room. Someone else told me their name. But I saw some "Nok Kra Taa" at a different place. Thanks for the "Birds of Thailand" link !

Edited July 28, 200916 yr by miodo2009