Thai National Parks

Khao Sok National Park

Wildlife in Khao Sok

The list of species below are collected from various sources and publications, it is not necessarily complete nor accurate. Some species may have been extirpated from the park, may be historic data of rare migrant species or simply misidentified. We do our best to verify each record with the experts, particularly the rare species.

Birds (Class: Aves)

Total 393 species

Ducks, geese, and waterfowl
Pheasants, grouse, and allies
Grebes
Pigeons and doves
Cuckoos
Frogmouths
Nightjars and allies
Swifts
Treeswifts
Rails, gallinules, and coots
Finfoots
Plovers and lapwings
Painted-snipes
Jacanas
Sandpipers and allies
Buttonquails
Pratincoles and coursers
Storks
Anhingas
Cormorants and shags
Herons, egrets, and bitterns
Ospreys
Hawks, eagles, and kites
Barn-owls
Owls
Trogons
Hoopoes
Hornbills
Kingfishers, Tree kingfishers
Bee-eaters
Rollers
Barbets
Honeyguides
Woodpeckers
Falcons and caracaras
Parrots
Broadbills
Pittas
Thornbills and allies
Cuckooshrikes and allies
Vireos, shrike-babblers and erpornis
Old World orioles
Vangas, helmetshrikes, and allies
Ioras
Fantails
Drongos
Monarch flycatchers
Crested shrikejay
Shrikes
Crows, jays and magpies
Rail-babbler
Fairy flycatchers
Tits
Cisticolas and allies
Reed warblers and allies
Grassbirds and allies
Swallows and martins
Bulbuls
Leaf warblers
Bush warblers and allies
White-eyes, yuhinas and allies
Tree-babblers, scimitar-babblers and allies
Ground babblers and allies
Alcippe fulvettas
Nuthatches
Starlings
Thrushes and allies
Old World flycatchers
Flowerpeckers
Sunbirds and spiderhunters
Fairy-bluebirds
Leafbirds
Weavers and allies
Waxbills and allies
Old World sparrows
Wagtails and pipits

Mammals (Class: Mammalia)

Total 110 species

Elephants
Even-toed ungulates (Order: Artiodactyla)
Deer
Bovids
Chevrotains
Suids
Carnivorans (Order: Carnivora)
Bears
Cats
Viverrids
Mustelids
Asiatic linsangs
Mongooses
Canids
Tapirs
Primates (Order: Primate)
Gibbons
Macaques
Lutungs
Surilis
Lorisids
Flying lemurs
Pangolins (Order: Pholidota)
Shrews & Moles (Order: Eulipotyphla, Soricomorpha)
Rodents (Order: Rodentia)
Old World porcupines
Squirrels
Spalacids
Moonrats
Murids
Treeshrews (Order: Scandentia)
Bats
Horseshoe bats
Old World leaf-nosed bats
Sac-winged bats
Megabats
Vesper bats
Free-tailed bats
False vampire bats
Slit-faced bats

Turtles (Order: Testudines)

Softshell turtles
Freshwater pond turtles
Asian leaf turtles (Genus: Cyclemys)
Asian pond turtles (Genus: Heosemys)
Tortoises
Asian elongated tortoises (Genus: Indotestudo)
Asian tortoises (Genus: Manouria)

Lizards (Suborder: Saurina)

Total 27 species

Geckos
Bent-toed geckos (Genus: Cyrtodactylus)
Rock geckos genus (Genus: Cnemaspis)
House geckos (Genus: Hemidactylus)
Four-clawed geckos (Genus: Gehyra)
Dwarf geckos (Genus: Hemiphyllodactylus)
Tokay geckos (Genus: Gekko)
Agamid lizards
Flying dragons (Genus: Draco)
Tree dragons (Genus: Acanthosaura)
Green lizards (Genus: Bronchocela)
Crested lizards (Genus: Calotes)
True lizards, Lacertas
Grass lizards (Genus: Takydromus)
Skinks
Sun skinks (Genus: Eutropis, Toenayar)
Tree skinks (Genus: Dasia)
Forest skinks (Genus: Sphenomorphus, Tytthoscincus)
Monitors

Snakes (Suborder: Serpentes)

Total 68 species

Pit vipers & vipers
Green pit vipers
Pit vipers
Mountain pit vipers
Terrestrial elapids
Kraits
Cobras
King cobra
Long-glanded coral snakes
Colubrid snakes
Blunt-headed tree snake
Slug-eating snakes
Racers
Rat snakes
Ground snakes
Smooth snakes
Kukri snakes
Reed snakes
Bronzebacks
Tree snakes
Wolf snakes & bridle snakes
Collared snakes
Cat snakes
Mock vipers
Whip snakes
Asian keelbacks
Keelbacks
Pythons
Pipe snakes
Sunbeam snakes
Homalopsine water snakes
Mud snakes
Blind snakes
Blind snakes (Genus: Argyrophis, Gerrhopilus, Indotyphlops, Ramphotyphlops)

Amphibians (Order: Anura)

Total 42 species

Litter frogs
Asian horned toads
Eastern spadefoot toads
Karin Hills frogs
Slender litter frogs (Genus: Leptobrachella)
Narrow-mouthed frogs
Bullfrogs (Genus: Kaloula)
Chaperina genus
Kalophrynus genus
Micryletta genus
Rice frogs (Genus: Microhyla)
Shrub frogs
Bug-eyed frogs/warty treefrogs (Genus: Theloderma)
Flying frogs (Genus: Rhacophorus)
Slim treefrogs (Genus: Leptomantis)
Whipping frogs (Genus: Polypedates)
Indonesian tree frogs (Genus: Nyctixalus)
Kurixalus genus
Zhangixalus genus
True frogs
Cascade/sucker frogs (Genus: Amolops)
Clinotarsus genus
Fejervarya genus
Fanged frogs (Genus: Limnonectes)
Golden-backed frogs
Wijaya cascade frogs
Humerana genus
Odorous frogs (Genus: Odorrana)
True toads
Duttaphrynus genus
Ingerophrynus genus
Toads (Genus: Bufo, Phrynoidis)
Triangle frogs
Alcala's dwarf mountain frogs (Genus: Alcalus]

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