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A discovering day at Vam Ho bird ground
Vam Ho (Vàm Hồ) bird ground belongs to the area between My Hoa (Mỹ Hoà) commune and Tan Xuan (Tân Xuân) commune, Ba Tri suburban, Ben Tre (Bến Tre) province. It is about 52km far from Ben Tre town and 120km far from Ho Chi Minh (Hồ Chí Minh) City by road, 100km by waterway.
Vam Ho is a salt-marsh land having a lot of wild trees which grow into a forest. This place is also the residing place of thousands of storks, night herons, and many kinds of bird. The population of Vam Ho bird ground consists of 84 species involving 35 families and 12 assortments. The time tourists come here the most is the time when birds return here for reproducing from April to October of Lunar calendar.
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Birds are flying to Vam Ho |
Everyday, about 4 or 5pm, flocks of thousands of storks fly over Ba Lai river, wander about under the light of sunset, then gently perch on the green forest floor of date-palm. When birds return here, whole of the forest floor is agitated by the voice of hungry birds mixed with each voice of each stork.
At Vam Ho, beside the spectacular dance of thousands of storks and night herons, among them, there are also the voice of a water hen calling its flock in the middle of a silent summer night, the voice of centropus sinensis like a burden calling the high tide, the voice of birds having the shape of their beaks similar to the shape of ducks' beaks call early evening, and many kinds of small birds living in clumps of trees. This place has over 500,000 birds; among them, the most kind is stork species such as white storks with black beak, yellow beak; egrets, cattle egrets, night herons, especially sometimes has herons. Visiting Vam Ho bird ground, tourists can also go for walk along the forest road and go sailing in the mangrove forest.
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