Trang Attractions:
Bird Watching Site at Libong Island
Libong Island is known as the biggest island in Gan Tang, and part of it is announced as Libong Archipelago Sanctuary. The highlight of this island is the bird assembly point and the only source of observing the countrys remaining dugongs. After all, this island is a good place for those who keen on studying nature, muddy forest ecology and sea grass.

40 % of Libong Island is occupied with mountains whose peak is 300 meters above the medium sea level. Geographically, the west side of the island is covered with tall cliffs, and only 3% of the area is the beach. Goh Libong Resort is situated on the south west. The east side is mainly occupied with approximately 60% of the plain ground of the island, where half of it grown the muddy forest. Joo Hoy Cape, where Libong Archipelago Sanctuary Office situates, is located on the east of the muddy forest. Goh Libong Sanctuary is noted as a significant wader-watching site in the south. The area is surrounded by the muddy shore, especially in Toob Beach where flocks of immigrating waders crowdedly inhabit during the cold season. Crab Plover is originally found here. Otherwise, there are other kinds of waders like Great Knot, Eurasian Curlew, Bar-tailed Godwit, Plover and other various kinds of sea birds.

BIRD-WATCHING SITE The Kong Kang forest or mangrove forest around Libong Island are good sources where some types of rare birds can be found such as Brown-Winged Kingfisher, Masked Finfoot, Black-Necked Stork which will sooner or later become the extinct animals. Beaches and muddy shores along the coast are the substantial sources of foods for waders like Malaysian Plover, the immigrating birds like Asian Dowicher, Crab plover, etc. Various kinds of sea birds like Frigatebirds, Gulls and Terns find the forest in this island as their good residences and nest-building sources.

CRAB PLOVER The huge white wader with black beak, black rear, black and white wing and long gray legs. Its white head and stern with black rear is obviously seen while flying. It looks for foods on the water surface. Crab Plover is the rear bird immigrating to Libong Island and beaches in Pang Nga during the cold season. Owing to the decreasing number of immigrating birds, only 1-2 Crab Plover can be found each year.

BLACK-NECKED STORK It is the huge majestic looking bird with black beak, head and neck, greenish black tail, where upper part of the back, breast and belly are white, with black and white wings and long red legs. Sea animals are its main foods. Previously found in the central field, the northern open forest or the southern muddy forest and sea shores of Thailand, the only Black-Necked Stork can now be found in Had Chao Mai National Park in Trang. It is one of the sooner extinct animals of Thailand.

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