Site Report: Ko Tao
Ko Tao Harbor - Photo by Ian.
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Ko Tao Harbor - Photo by Ian.
Island
Visits
- 2013-02-06: The Hat To kill some more time in Thailand, we headed out to an island where a friend was staying. The focus of the trip to the island was scuba diving and eating as there were plenty of both. The scuba diving on the island was very strange as the method to getting into the boat involved climbing through other boats tied to the dock. It seemed like a really dangerous way to get on the boat, and I thought it might be more dangerous than the actual diving. Riding in the back of a truck after one of the dives, my hat blew off my head into the street. By the time I was able to back-track, the hat was gone.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (8 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(8 records)
Class: Birds
(6 records)
- Order: Bucerotiformes
(1 record)
- Family: Hornbills
- Oriental Pied-Hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris)
- Order: Cuckoos
(1 record)
- Family: Coucals
- Greater Coucal (Centropus sinensis)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons
(1 record)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Spotted Dove (Spilopelia chinensis)
- Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies
(1 record)
- Family: Osprey
- Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
- Order: Perching Birds
(2 records)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus)
- Family: Starlings and Mynas
- Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis)
Class: Reptiles
(2 records)
- Order: Lizards and Snakes
(2 records)
- Family: Coral Snakes
- Banded Sea Snake (Laticauda colubrina)
- Family: Geckos
- Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko)