Birding highlights: Lesser Whistling-Duck, Cotton Pygmy-Goose, Northern Pintail, Ferruginous Duck, Eurasian Moorhen, Indochinese Swamphen, White-breasted Waterhen, Pheasant-tailed Jacana, Asian Openbill, Great Bittern.
Gateway cities: Ha Noi Capital (90km).
Airport: Noi Bai International Airport - Ha Noi Capital (115km)
Best time to visit Van Long Nature Reserve for a birding trip: December to May
Van Long Nature Reserve is one of the best birding hotspots in Northern Vietnam, located about 25km from Cuc Phuong National Park and 90km from Hanoi Capital.
Van Long Nature Reserve is the largest wetland nature reserve in northern Vietnam. On small bamboo boats, tourists travel through high reeds along small streams at the foot of the mountains to admire the reserve’s magnificent landscape.
Nature lovers will not be disappointed by Van Long. The fauna and flora in Van Long typify the ecosystems of limestone mountains and Red River Delta wetlands. The real star of Van Long is the Delacour’s langur, one of the most endangered primates in the world.
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Notes: *** Subspecies of a full species (above) have been recorded in Vietnam, with different traits and are defined by scientists - These subspecies may split into full species in future updates.
1. Lesser Whistling-Duck
2. Cotton Pygmy-Goose
3. Garganey
4. Northern Pintail
5. Ferruginous Duck/Ferruginous Pochard
6. Eurasian Moorhen/Common Moorhen
7. Eurasian Coot/Common Coot
8. Gray-headed Swamphen
***Indochinese Swamphen
9. White-browed Crake
10. White-breasted Waterhen
11. Ruddy-breasted Crake
12. Pheasant-tailed Jacana
13. Asian Openbill
14. Great Bittern/Eurasian Bittern
15. Yellow Bittern
16. Cinnamon Bittern
17. Black Bittern
18. Black Kite
19. Black-browed Reed Warbler
20. Oriental Reed Warbler
21. Amur Stonechat/Stejnegeri's Stonechat/Japanese Stonechat