Bird Sightings

This comes from the records of my father-in-law William W. Thomas, who by profession was a U.S. diplomat in Southeast Asia in the 1960s but his passion was ornithology. His bird counts in Laos and Cambodia from that period are now invaluable documents of species that are rare and threatened today due to war, deforestation, hunting, and so on. His records on Laos are particularly important because they are unique. He sighted birds in the Vientane area such as black kites (open habitat) and little cormorants (wetland habitat) which have not been seen since and are threatened with regional extinction.