Another bird into my frame (picture lifer) , beside Marbled Wren-Babbler .. this is another big wren-babbler .. and again it behave like other Wren-Babbler , skittish, flying around, calling non stop , calling laugh .. etc ….
As usual, saw this bird in the forest but most the time without camera or just flip seconds ..
另一只令人又爱又恨的鸟。总是跳来跳去，见人飞，也喜欢叫。就如其他 鹪鹛
– it calling non stop while we waiting for other birds nearby .. and when we try trace it for photo no success for ~1hour .. end up we chase it with handheld !!!! … in the dark forest
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For Peninsula Malaysia a blackbird that loves to moving fast in the forest …. we make a trip just for this bird .. but found out it is not really active but was lucky it appear for food just 10-15min before we leaving … ~33cm
For Borneo ~28cm , smaller . Brownish color but behave same, moving fast and making a lot of noise.
It was so exciting to hear this just as we were leaving Fraser’s Hill. In our group, three of us are seriously working on seeing bird families around the world, and although we had three sightings during the tour, this one gave us the best view—perhaps even better than the one at Sungai Relau. Plus, I managed to get a photo of this one. Such a lovely bird!
– finally all 5 special 2 bird family tours done for Rail-Babbler & this Jayshrike .. this year lucky to have 100% . This bird normally quite straight forward but it missing for the 1st day and only heard but without show us . Day2, early morning when we step down from car, immediate I heard the call within 2 minutes we got the bird and Bingo !!
– another special trip to this “South” of Peninsular Malaysia but this time we actually target only Malaysian Rail-Babbler and Cinnamon-rumped Trogon. Day1 , we already have this bird again with better view and photo and the Rail-Babbler give a good view but …
– an active bird that everyone seem special look for this bird family
– another very good encounter from Borneo, which smaller and color different from Peninsular Malaysia/Thailand species (which is bigger and Black)
– not really sure just me, it getting difficult to have good view for this bird at Borneo .. it just get more shy compare to before pandemic
– 在婆罗洲行，另一只突然听到，看到，拍到的好鸟。与马来西亚西马，泰国的颜色不一样+小一点。
– 不知道是我而已还是有点变化，疫情前蛮容易看到。可是疫情后，几乎那个地方都很害羞。
202405, Danum Valley, Sabah, Malaysia
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update 202406
– a uncommon special bird family, a very black and active bird to be seen. It is not easy almost whole Malaysia except some South part of Malaysia
– we keep heard and miss this special bird for a long tour but it is so easy at the end of the extension.
– 蛮不普通的其中一种鸟种。非常害羞，活跃。几乎都不容易见到，除了在西马南部
– 19天观鸟团，就见到它飞来飞去。非常不容易，就在加长部分非常容易就见到了。
202406, Lenggor, Johor, Malaysia
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update 202307
– a special Rail-Babbler tour, and what a bonus of so many special birds included this cool looking, active bird.
– 白眉长颈鸫特别团，也看到很多很特别的鸟。包括这只稀有，害羞，有形有款的黑鸟。
202307, Lenggor, Johor, Malaysia
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– an early morning with quite heavy rain, while I am waiting in the car a group of 5 birds keep flying around and making calls. I still walking out to captured some pictures and 2 sg Bird Photographers join me the raining chasing fun
– a black bird, use to be very active and shy. But not this time, very friendly to us.
– a very special bird to be seen and it was a 2nd bird of the day and it make our good day and trip 2 hour travel. It stay for very long for us to have very good view, pictures, videos.
– 一只非常活跃，害羞的鸟。这次非常的友善。站了很久很近，让我们拍的好好的。
20230216, Lenggor, Johor, Malaysia
update 202105
– just another 2017 archive picture, never get bored to see this special bird which really noisy in the forest and active moving around
Birding with Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm f4.0 PRO Lens | liewwk
I am lucky to have this len with me for 2 days testing … I brought this len to various locations for real world testing … from bright, dark, lowland, montane etc ..
with the small sensor size, this 300mm F4 make to 600mm F4 (35mm sensor equivalent) and it weight only 2.15kg together with EM1 body, battery grip, batteries ….. so if weight is main concern than this len could be yours choice.
*** all the birds pictures, RAW-JPEG just increase contrast, saturation and resize no noise reduction etc
*** will be slowly update more pictures upon request
We start the test at low light and some action bird .. rufous-backed kingfisher feeding on fish .. immediate after got the fish, this bird non stop flipping the fish and it may stop for a moment every once and than .. so have to got the moment right to have this capture [click image for bigger resolution image]
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follow by the lovely and beautiful Garnet Pitta, where at not very dark environment …
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beautiful Green Magpie
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Whiskered Treeswift,is one beautiful bird always perch high up and not easy to get beautiful photo. It has very cute, fantastic, amazing nest … single egg, single chick hold on small nest as show
I had trying very hard to get open picture for Malaysian Hill Partridge, finally I managed to got decent photo 2016 March … this bird is not rare but just never like to show up in the open
Malaysian Hill Partridge 砍氏山鹧
update 2016 April 18
update 2016 Apil
previously my keeper for this bird
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we “endemlaiscguides.com” having CHINA guests for birds Photography Kuala Gula – Taiping – Fraser Hill – KRAU – BUKIT Tinggi – Kuala Lumpur for some target lists as guest went many country so quite limited target left for me too (especially Fraser Hill list)
below are some pictures from guests sharing /一些照片
Black-and-crimson Oriole Male 绯胸黄鹂 (公）
Black-and-crimson Oriole Female 绯胸黄鹂 (母）
Cute Fire-tufted Barbet 火簇拟鴷
Laced Woodpecker 花腹绿啄木鸟
Black & yellow Broadbill 黑黄阔嘴鸟
Banded Broadbill 斑阔嘴鸟
Mangrove Pitta 红树八色鸫
Garnet Pitta 榴红八色鸫
Collared Owlet 领鸺鹠Barred Eagle-Owl 马来雕鸮Spotted Wood-Owl 点斑林鸮Buffy Fish-Owl 马来渔鸮Barn Owl 仓鸮Brown Wood-Owl 褐林鸮Lucky to meet up Brown Wood-Owl Juvi | 很辛运看到褐林鸮亚成鸟meet another Buffy Fish-Owl in the day time .. 光天化日马来渔鸮Silver-breasted Broadbill 银胸丝冠鸟
8天7夜拍了111种
34/111 –〉记录照/只有<2位拍到
6种鸮
6种阔嘴鸟
3种八色鸫
4种翠鸟
overall we did quite reasonable good even we had very bad after lunch sessions for almost everyday (very hot everyday after lunch) . we got
Total 111 species photograph for 8 days
34/111 are record shots and some are only photograph by single person .
77 species have above average photos for more than 2 persons
we “endemlaiscguides.com” having England guest for birds watching, from Bukit Tinggi – KRAU forest – Fraser – Klang for very limited target lists as guest went Borneo, Cambodia & East India which already cover most of the Malaysia .
with very limited target birds and time, we targeting 40 lifers …
with very good waiting game for first day, the star bird – Mountain Peacock-Pheasant… at Bukit Tinggi, also managed to got few target bamboo Woodpecker, Black Laughingthrush for the first day etc
immediate after lunch , we reached KRAU in very hot, dry late afternoon but we still got few important target e.g. Garnet Pitta, Black Throat Babbler , Banded Kingfishers etc .
but we missed out few lowland target so next day morning we going KRAU again before heading Fraser Hill. we have slow and dry morning but still some target like Long-billed Spiderhunter, Gray-breasted Spiderhunter, Gold-whiskered Barbet , Red-billed Malkoha , Yellow-vented Pigeon, Cook’s Swift, Cook’s Swift, Black-browed Barbet, Hill Blue-Flycatcher etc . too bad we are rush for other targets and didn’t get any chance to photograph them .
another 1.5 days on Fraser Hill, in the morning we have very good view of Blue Nuthatch, Collard Owlet, Black and Black-and-crimson Oriole. Same day, we managed to have very good target and sighting e.g. Gray-breasted Partridge (Malaysian Hill Partridge) , Mabler Wren-Babbler, Malayan Laughingthrush, grey nightjar etc . I got a good view of Malayan Whistling-Thrush but too bad guest just got a brief view of the endemic . but the bird day , Malayan Hill Partridge give us fantastic view for more than 2 hours … and very lucky I managed to got some pictures of the star bird. and by luck we also have super view of Rufous-bellied Swallow … total 5 of the birds gave us very good view .
immediate after Fraser Hill, we decide to try the Mangrove Pitta. and yes we got it real fast but under the hot weather near mangrove ..
overall we got 118 species and target hit 44 species or lifers for guest
star birds :
Gray-breasted Partridge (Malaysian)
Yellow-vented Pigeon
Mountain Peacock-Pheasant
Mabler Wren-Babbler
Bamboo Woodpecker
Garnet Pitta
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