A non-hunting area in Phatthalung puts the southern province on birdwatchers' must-go list Bird watching in Talay Noi Non-Hunting Area is a popular activity that draws thousands of visitors to Phatthalung, eight hundred and fourty kilometres south of Bangkok, every year. Talay Noi is four hundred and fifty seven square kilometres (285,625 rai) of wetland in Khuan Khanun district of the province. It is the habitat of birds such as the painted stork and purple heron, lesser whistling-duck and little greb, black-winged stilt, brahminy kite, cormorant and whiskered tern.