Doi Chiang Daow
Chiang Mai Province

        Chiang Daow Wildlife Santuary, Den-Ya-Khad Sub-headquarters, is a birdwatching location that has been ranked by birdwatchers from all over the world to be a good one of the country. To bird in this location needs a lot of perseverance because the 20-kilometer pathway is very rough.

         Birdwatchers have to be 'up and down' along the hole-and-crack road into the natural forest on lime-mountain that is fertilely surrounded with Dry forest, Deciduous forest and Hill everygreen forest. At the end of the trail, there are abundant of bird species in the northern habitat, especially at Den-Ya-Khad sub-headquarters. Let say that in each day of birdwatching you don't have to go far more than the radius of 400 meters.

        There are many birds you can see at the location, such as Hume's Pheasant that regularly seeks for foods nearby the cabbage bed, at the sub-headquarters' side; Black-tailed Crake that often go out in the morning and evening, finding for foods at the streamside in front of the sub-headquarters; or Great Tit that builds its nest in the tree in front of our hostel.

         In the Passage Migrant season, around the end of rainy season and the beginning of winter, this point is one of the first locations those birds have to pass before entering the country. In winter, the found winter visitors are Dark-breasted Rosefinch and Scarlet Finch. The both bird species are likely to hang around Coral flower and others in this forest.The most appropriate time to birding here is during November and February.