Thai National Parks

Khao Yai National Park

Wildlife in Khao Yai

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 437 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
Stilts and avocets
Plovers and lapwings
Painted-snipes
Jacanas
Sandpipers and allies
Buttonquails
Pratincoles and coursers
Gulls, terns, and skimmers
Storks
Anhingas
Cormorants and shags
Pelicans
Herons, egrets, and bitterns
Ibises and spoonbills
Ospreys
Hawks, eagles, and kites
Barn-owls
Owls
Trogons
Hoopoes
Hornbills
Kingfishers, Tree kingfishers
Bee-eaters
Rollers
Barbets
Woodpeckers
Falcons and caracaras
Parrots
Broadbills
Pittas
Cuckooshrikes and allies
Vireos, shrike-babblers and erpornis
Old World orioles
Woodswallows, bellmagpies and allies
Vangas, helmetshrikes, and allies
Ioras
Fantails
Drongos
Monarch flycatchers
Shrikes
Crows, jays and magpies
Fairy flycatchers
Tits
Larks
Cisticolas and allies
Reed warblers and allies
Grassbirds and allies
Swallows and martins
Bulbuls
Leaf warblers
Bush warblers and allies
Sylviid warblers, parrotbills, and allies
White-eyes, yuhinas and allies
Tree-babblers, scimitar-babblers and allies
Ground babblers and allies
Laughingthrushes and allies
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
Finches, euphonias and allie
Old World buntings

Mammals (Class: Mammalia)

Total 71 species

Elephants
Even-toed ungulates (Order: Artiodactyla)
Deer
Bovids
Chevrotains
Suids
Carnivorans (Order: Carnivora)
Bears
Cats
Viverrids
Mustelids
Asiatic linsangs
Mongooses
Canids
Primates (Order: Primate)
Gibbons
Macaques
Lorisids
Pangolins (Order: Pholidota)
Hares
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
Free-tailed bats
False vampire bats

Turtles (Order: Testudines)

Softshell turtles
Freshwater pond turtles
Southeast Asian box turtles (Genus: Cuora)
Asian leaf turtles (Genus: Cyclemys)
Asian pond turtles (Genus: Heosemys)
Snail-eating turtles (Genus: Malayemys)

Lizards (Suborder: Saurina)

Total 32 species

Geckos
Bent-toed geckos (Genus: Cyrtodactylus)
House geckos (Genus: Hemidactylus)
Four-clawed geckos (Genus: Gehyra)
Tokay geckos (Genus: Gekko)
Agamid lizards
Flying dragons (Genus: Draco)
Tree dragons (Genus: Acanthosaura)
Green lizards (Genus: Bronchocela)
Crested lizards (Genus: Calotes)
Water dragons (Genus: Physignathus)
Butterfly lizards (Genus: Leiolepis)
True lizards, Lacertas
Grass lizards (Genus: Takydromus)
Skinks
Sun skinks (Genus: Eutropis, Toenayar)
Striped skinks (Genus: Lipinia)
Tree skinks (Genus: Dasia)
Stream skinks (Genus: Tropidophorus)
Leaf-litter skinks (Genus: Scincella)
Forest skinks (Genus: Sphenomorphus, Tytthoscincus)
Supple skinks (Genus: Lygosoma, Subdoluseps)
Monitors

Snakes (Suborder: Serpentes)

Total 58 species

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

Amphibians (Order: Anura)

Total 26 species

Fork-tongued frogs
Puddle frogs
Litter frogs
Asian horned toads
Narrow-mouthed frogs
Rice frogs (Genus: Microhyla)
Shrub frogs
Bug-eyed frogs/warty treefrogs (Genus: Theloderma)
Whipping frogs (Genus: Polypedates)
Foam-nest frogs (Genus: Chirixalus)
Kurixalus genus
Raorchestes genus
True frogs
Fejervarya genus
Fanged frogs (Genus: Limnonectes)
Golden-backed frogs
Meristogenys genus
Odorous frogs (Genus: Odorrana)
True toads
Duttaphrynus genus
Caecilians
Ichthyophis genus

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