About Alex Vargas

Alex Vargas is a Costa Rican living in Thailand...
Alex was a bird guide for 20 seasons in Latin America and the Caribbean Islands, specializing in Costa Rica, the richest country with more species per square meter... a paradise hosting 4% of the world's biodiversity. Today Alex lives with his Costa Rican wife and his lovely daughter in another jewel of nature and birding: Thailand, where he spends a good part of his life chasing amazing and exotic birds, this time with a camera in hand... Bird-photography has become his big passion and today he has a growing gallery with birds from several hotspots of the world. Since he started seriously into bird-photo, has been widely published in books and magazines from around the globe.
To share birds, photos and the love for nature, please visit: https://www.birdphotoforum.com
Alex galleries: https://www.pbase.com/alex_vargas

Mom’s Feeder 2010 — Part 1 of 2

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The famous banana feeder at my mom’s house has been abandoned by periods, but everytime it gets re-activated, birds seem to be looking forward and remember quickly!… Such was the […]

A Date with a Big Bill

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The Stork-billed Kingfisher is one of the largest and most difficult -to photograph- Halcyonidaes of SE Asia… We got lucky as one mom was feeding two chicks in a park […]

Friendly Feathers

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Every winter season (November – April) we get the colorful visit of many nice birds in Thailand, but none as friendly and showy as the Mugimaki Flycatcher and the White-throated […]

Mae Wong got Alive!!!

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Mae Wong National Park, really became the hotspot for a couple of months with many cool birds showing super well… I’ll show you some… Located between Kampaeng Phet and Nakorn […]

Birds and Elephants

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During the crazy times of flooding in Bangkok, our family decided to spend some time in higher ground and what could it be better than Khao Yai, with the National […]

A Special Orange Beak

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Prasae it’s always been a birding and Bird-Photo hotspot, but in August-September 2010, the appearance of a red billed bird -which turned out to be an unusual RIVER TERN- placed […]

Blue -river- Jewel of the South

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The Blue-banded Kingfisher isn’t the most colorful of his group, but certainly it is one of the most difficult to find and photograph! When I was coming to this side […]

Laem Pak Bia… 3 out of 3

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Third part -out of three- displaying some of my many photographic expeditions at Laem Pak Bia, a cool waders’ site that rocks indeed… August 15th, 2009 On Mother’s Day -American […]

Birds from Laem Pak Bia, part 2 of 3

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Second part that accounts some of my many photographic expeditions at Laem Pak Bia, a great area for waders and much more… December 23rd, 2008   &   December 27th, 2008 Just […]

Red Beak, Big Lunch

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Witness how a beautiful and aggressive Black-capped Kingfisher battles hard to prepare and enjoy a big crab for lunch! In october 2010, someone posted in my forum (birdphotoforum.com) a pretty […]

Western Australia – Part 4 of 4

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Penguin Island: a small patch of land with some very special birds + Herdsman’s Lake: lots of waterfowl in the big -City- Park and Lake We decided to take one […]

Western Australia – Part 3 of 4

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Pemberton, a beautiful town with beautiful people and many beautiful birds & Lake Monger + Erick Street Beachfront, cool birds in the middle of the City After all that fantastic […]

Western Australia – Part 2 of 4

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Stirling Range – the best Bird-Photo spot of our WA trip & Cheynes Beach – truly a fantastic coastal paradise with really good Birding Getting to Stirling Range Retreat was […]

Western Australia – Part 1 of 4

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Bibra Lake – a fantastic bird-photo introduction to WA & Dryandra Woodlands – a great site that deserves more time! My first bird-photo trip to the amazing Australia, was to […]