Da Nang is home to a number of migratory bird species and every year these birds leave their winter homes for warmer regions. The beaches and the Son Tra Peninsula in Da Nang are popular stopover sites for these birds for food, breeding and nestling.

Let’s look at these birds in spectacular photos captured by our freelance photographer Hong Huy, showing how beautiful they truly are.

A Pacific reef heron at the foot of the Son Tra Peninsula

A whimbrel on the Man Thai Beach

A flock of sanderling seen darting along shorelines

Sanderling usually lives in floodplains and near-coastal wetlands

The Red-necked Phalarope is a tiny grayish bird with a needle-thin bill

The white wagtail is an insectivorous bird living near water

Ruddy turnstones often flip and turn shells, stones, and driftwood to seek out prey beneath

The Yellow Bittern is a bird of fresh water marshes feeding on fish, insects, and other invertebrates. It particularly favours dense water edge vegetation, either reeds or woody plants and rice fields.

Daurian Redstart lives alone in wooded areas

A white-breasted waterhen can be found finding food in the rain

A white-browed crake

By HONG HUY - Translated by MAI DUNG