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Usually spelled tokay in English, it's µØê¡á¡ in Thai. I've seen a couple and heard a lot upcountry. They are large enough to give a good scare if you see one indoors, but generally stay outside, unlike their smaller green cousins you see all over. Here is a wikipedia article including an ogg sound file which sounds exactly like what I heard every night outside my bungalow in Nan. I quite enjoyed the sound.

Now that picture is more like how I imagined from Ubonwans description and the sound file is exactly what I would hear in our bed room late at night and sometimes mid-morning. I have just downloaded it to minidisc to play in my bedroom here in Wales.

I am kind of glad I didn't look behind the poster the time I heard it there and can understand why Ubonwan took a broom to investigate when I told her about it.

Thanks for the link, I have been thinking about it for the last 4 months since I returned to Wales.

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