Mui Ca Mau National Park

Mui Ca Mau National Park is situated on the Ca Mau peninsula, at the southernmost tip of Vietnam. The national park supports extensive, continually accreting mudflats, which are being colonised naturally by mangrove.

Birding highlights : Chinese Egret, Far Eastern Curlew, Black-headed Ibis and Asian Dowitcher.

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Bird fauna : Mui Ca Mau is an important staging area for migratory shorebirds, egrets, gulls and terns. Rare species regularly recorded at the site include Chinese Egret, Spot-billed Pelican, Asian Dowitcher, Far Eastern Curlew, Black-headed Ibis and Painted Stork. The site also supports large concentrations of Whiskered Tern, Caspian Tern and Eurasian Curlew.

Other features : Southernmost tip of Vietnam, mangroves.

Transportation : Air and boat. The national park is one-and-a-half hours by speed boat from Ca Mau town. There are regular flights between Ca Mau town and Ho Chi Minh City.

Accommodation :  There are numerous hotels and guesthouses in Ca Mau town.

Permission : Mui Ca Mau is a tourism site, accessible for all Vietnamese and foreign visitors.

 

Contact details : 

Mui Ca Mau National Park, Ngoc Hien district, Ca Mau province, Tel.: +(84 780) 870545/824625.

Ca Mau Tourism, Tel.: +(84 780) 832238

Mui Ca Mau Cultural and Tourism Site, Dat Mui commune, Ngoc Hien district,
Tel.: +(84 780) 870813

Bird list (source: BirdLife International Vietnam Programme) : 

1. Laced Woodpecker

2. Greater Flameback

3. Common Kingfisher

4. Stork-billed Kingfisher

5. Black-capped Kingfisher

6. Collared Kingfisher

7. Plaintive Cuckoo

8. Green-billed Malkoha

9. Greater Coucal

10. Needletail species

11. Large-tailed Nightjar

12. Slaty-breasted Rail

13. White-breasted Waterhen

14. Black-tailed Godwit

15. Bar-tailed Godwit

16. Whimbrel

17. Eurasian Curlew

18. Eastern Curlew

19. Common Redshank

20. Marsh Sandpiper

21. Common Greenshank

22. Wood Sandpiper

23. Terek Sandpiper

24. Common Sandpiper

25. Grey-tailed Tattler

26. Ruddy Turnstone

27. Asian Dowitcher

28. Curlew Sandpiper

29. Black-winged Stilt

30. Pacific Golden Plover

31. Grey Plover

32. Lesser Sand Plover

33. Greater Sand Plover

34. Grey-headed Lapwing

35. Brown-headed Gull

36. Gull-billed Tern

37. Caspian Tern

38. Common Tern

39. Whiskered Tern

40. Osprey

41. Black-shouldered Kite

42. Brahminy Kite

43. Peregrine Falcon

44. Little Cormorant

45. Little Egret

46. Chinese Egret

47. Grey Heron

48. Purple Heron

49. Great Egret

50. Pond Heron species

51. Chinese Pond Heron

52. Javan Pond Heron

53. Little Heron

54. Yellow Bittern

55. Black-headed Ibis

56. Spot-billed Pelican

57. Painted Stork

58. Golden-bellied Gerygone

59. Racket-tailed Treepie

60. Pied Fantail

61. Black Drongo

62. Common Iora

63. Oriental Magpie Robin

64. White-vented Myna

65. Barn Swallow

66. Oriental White-eye

67. Oriental Reed Warbler

68. Common Tailorbird

69. Ashy Tailorbird

70. Dusky Warbler

71. Olive-backed Sunbird

72. Grey Wagtail

73. Richard's Pipit