We had USA guests spend 9 days in Borneo from KNP, RDC, Sukau to Danum Valley … good trip, we managed to records ~250 birds and some highlights
1. Giant Pitta for few rounds
2. Bornean bristlehead
3. all Borneo Hornbills
4. Whitehead broadbills
5. Whitehead Spiderhunter
6. Large Frogmouth
7. Black Headed Pitta
8. Bornean Wren-Babbler
9. Bornean Banded Kingfisher
10. Black-throat Wren-Babbler
etc
we have tired walking and river cruise day and light …. lets start sharing some pictures that I managed to capture . (will be slowly update here due to tired to run through all the pictures )
– when I first found it .. it fly like a raptor !!!! and we found 3 birds keep surrounding us and guests say .. ohhhh may I have other pitta rather than this ? 😀
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 German guests for birds watching, from Kuala Lumpur – KRAU forest (half day) – Fraser Hill – Kuala Selangor – Kuala Lumpur
We have lovely German Guests from German, they are here from eco related conference and extend few days for Malaysia Birds watching. we mostly walk around for any birds as we dont have any main target .
Day 1 – KRAU forest – we are little slow in the morning missed out few interesting birds e.g. little grebe, lesser whistling duck, lapwing etc … but some how we got few good view of broadbilss (black & red, banded, black & yellow). We also have very good view of Garnet pitta, Rufous-collard Kingfisher & black-throat babbler. We left the site about lunch time and travel to Fraser.
we got Bamboo woodpecker female very good view and eyelevel Yellow Vented pigeon (too bad I dont have camera with me on that time but I still able to get some higher shot of the birds)
Day2-3 Fraser Hill- overall it was windy days and we work very hard for those main targets here e.g. red headed trogon, orange headed trogon, long-tailed broadbill, silver breasted broadbill . any how we able to have both trogons and Silver breasted broadbill at single spot . but we struggle to have a look of long-tailed broadbill but any how we still able to got the bird at last 2-3 hours at Fraser hill before heading to Kuala Selangor.
Day4- Kuala Selangor – it is very good day at Kuala Selangor, we have almost black capped kingfisher , stork billed kingfishers, yellow rumped flycatcher, mangrove blue flycatcher etc .. overall a very good day till we almost missed our check out time. after Kuala Selangor, we dropby Shah Alam and have super fast even less than 10s to spot the Hooded pitta
some pictures I handheld capture when I with the guests
Garnet Pitta
whiskered treeswift
– Mabler Wren-babbler
yellow vented pigeon
Overall we have 159 species recorded
and few main birds record
Mabler Wren-Babbler
Yellow Vented Pigeon
Garnet Pitta
Rufous Collard Kingfisher
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we “endemlaiscguides.com” having Dutch guest for target birds (main target Malaysian Rail-babbler [Eupetes macrocerus] & Malayan Banded Pitta [Pitta guajana irena/ripleyi] watching, from Kuala Lumpur – KRAU forestfor ~6 hours birding ..
We have no luck on the Rail-Babbler no single call , due to limited time we have we going bit further trail for banded Pitta and managed to have clear view of the Malayan Banded Pitta plus some other birds e.g.
Red Junglefowl
Purple Heron
Oriental Honey-buzzard
Little Green-Pigeon
Raffles’s Malkoha
Whiskered Treeswift
Scarlet-rumped Trogon
Rufous-collared Kingfisher
Black Hornbill
Sooty Barbet
Gold-whiskered Barbet
Red-throated Barbet
Coppersmith Barbet
Checker-throated Woodpecker
Maroon Woodpecker
Buff-rumped Woodpecker
Banded Pitta
Garnet Pitta
Black-winged Flycatcher-shrike
Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
Asian Paradise-Flycatcher
House Crow
Gray-headed Canary-Flycatcher
Puff-backed Bulbul
Black-headed Bulbul
Stripe-throated Bulbul
Red-eyed Bulbul
Chestnut-rumped Babbler
White-rumped Shama
Little Spiderhunter
in summary
Total 30 species saw
Star birds
Banded Pitta
Garnet Pitta
Little Green pigeon
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we “endemlaiscguides.com” having Belgium guest for target birds watching, from Kuala Lumpur – KRAU forest – Bukit Tinggi – Fraser Hill – Kuala Lumpur
for the 5 days 4 nights birds watching , from secondary forest to highland back to botanical Garden … we only concentrate on guest targets birds and managed to record 172 species. and for some good opportunity. from
Day 1 – KRAU : we have some good morning with many low land targets meet except a “mysterious” Black & Yellow Broadbill and Banded Pitta… Star Bird of the day we have Rail-Babbler , Garnet Pitta which stay long snough for us , Little Green-Pigeon , Rufous-collared Kingfisher (real close with good view), Banded Kingfisher (found almost end of the day and long view but little far up with scope) & Rhinoceros Hornbill (with beautiful lighting view)
Day 2 – Bukit Tinggi : target for the Mountain Peacock-Pheasant and both male and female show in the early morning … follow by Malaysian Rail-babbler giving a good running view. than we have a bad day without any more target in almost late morning till 3pm … finally when we say while we dint see Whiskered Treeswift …. it calling when we are driving for some target birds and we make a stop and found this fruiting tree give us another few target included Scaly-breasted Bulbul , Red-throated Sunbird, Spectacled Spiderhunter , Yellow-eared Spiderhunter etc
Day 3 – KRAU-Fraser : we were going back to KRAU for trogon and we had ZERO trogon so far ..and again we also look for other lowland target … in the morning we managed to have Banded Pitta (Malayan) [head view]and than follow by first target trogon – Scarlet-rumped Trogon … and we called it a Woodpecker day as most the target woodpeckers just appear infront of us without big effort Checker-throated Woodpecker , Crimson-winged Woodpecker , Bamboo Woodpecker , Orange-backed Woodpecker .
Day 4 – Fraser Hill : not many target birds here and we only looking for those “no so common” birds here … so we have slow day … but still we have very easy view of 2 Marbled Wren-Babbler which make our day .. but we still failed to have one Partridge calling … and missed few Rusty-naped Pitta … but Siberian Thrush giving good view to us which we really enjoy to see they happy feeding around
Day 5 – Fraser Hill – Kuala Lumpur : not really a productive day again as we only target on the main target due to limited time , we managed to get close to Mountain Scops-Owl and have a moving and some blur picture of Gray-breasted Partridge (Malaysian) . when we leaving back to Kuala Lumpur it is very windy and tree fall down and block our way back … by waiting of 30 min the road been clear .
as long as we reach Kuala Lumpur – Shah Alam : very quick one we had 2 target meet : Gray-breasted Spiderhunter & Hooded pitta (2 individual saw also)
I managed rush back to car for few occasions and handheld to capture some birds pictures to share…
a never bore cute bird – Black and Yellow Broadbill is one of the Target and it just flew ni while we spending our good time with a fruiting tree – Black-and-yellow Broadbill 黑黄阔嘴鸟
found few fruiting tree with this beautiful Bulbul – Scaly-breasted Bulbul 鳞胸鹎
the Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot also join the fruiting tree – Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot 短尾鹦鹉
another fast and furious birds .. but we have good view of both male and female – Bamboo Woodpecker 竹啄木鸟
another fast and furious birds .. but we have good view of both male and female – Bamboo Woodpecker 竹啄木鸟
a bird never get bore , few pairs of them around .. Red-bearded Bee-eater 赤须夜蜂虎
another bird , easy … just spent 5-10 min found this and managed to go back car and grab camera for this .. in single day found 2 individual birds – Marbled Wren-Babbler 石纹鹪鹛
a bird we spent a lot of time for … calling non stop .. managed to see it movement and some blur shot handhled – Gray-breasted/ Malaysia Hill Partridge (Malaysian) 砍氏山鹧
a bird make a lot of noise when we driving back – Rufescent Prinia 暗冕山鹪莺
A quick trip to North Peninsular Malaysia (Sedim-Ulu Paip-Air Hitam Dalam-Bukit Merak-Kuala Gula-Malim Nawar-Alor Gajah) and purpose of this quick trip is to verify site for coming few tours for customers.
We didnt spent time for photography as we want to go as many as possible different locations …
1. Sedim Recreational Forest – Ulu Paip – Air Hitam Dalam
– quite slow in the morning and we only managed to have some birds hearing and have White-crowned Forktail near the river
– the activities seem to be warming up after 9am and we have very good view of few rufous-backed kingfishers which only 10-15 feet from us and Diard’s Trogon full view for ~30feet eye level.
– few pairs of Whiskered Treeswift and Gray-rumped Treeswift flying around
– target bird not found at Ulu Paip and we spend 30min near the river but no sighting of any target birds
– Air Hitam Dalam as usual Mangrove Flycatcher welcome us before we start any birding … Brown Hawk Owl also waiting for us and I managed go captured few pictures of the owl
bird list for half a day tour 18 birds
Black-thighed Falconet
Brown Hawk-Owl
Gray-rumped Treeswift
Whiskered Treeswift
Diard’s Trogon
Rufous-backed Kingfisher
Banded Woodpecker
Common Iora
Green Iora
Ashy Minivet
Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
Arctic Warbler
Black-capped Babbler
Fluffy-backed Tit-Babbler
Mangrove Blue-Flycatcher
Gray Wagtail
Green-billed Malkoha
White-crowned Forktail
2. Bukit Merak-Kuala Gula
after lunch we move toward Bukit Merak and Kuala Gula for a long lost bird but no sighting for that target bird too. so we decide just driving around for visit some old sites and relax.
but we still able to sight birds below
Lesser Whistling-Duck
Oriental Honey-buzzard
Red-wattled Lapwing
Large-tailed Nightjar
Brown Shrike
than we went out for Owl sightings at night and we managed to have 3 main target that night
–> a pairs of Spotted Wood-Owl close to us for some pictures
–> than Buffy Fish owl also stay still for picture session
–> shy Barn owl is slight difficult to get a picture but finally we have one allow us to have picture of it
– next morning after breakfast , we trying to locate both Indian Roller and Hoopoe reported recently but both seem left Kuala Gula .
– whole family of Milky Stork relax at the village of Kuala Gula
–> birds sights from Kuala Gula
Milky Stork
Striated Heron
Black-shouldered Kite
Brahminy Kite
Crested Serpent-Eagle
Gray-headed Lapwing
Buffy Fish-Owl
Spotted Wood-Owl
Barn Owl
Stork-billed Kingfisher
White-throated Kingfisher
Collared Kingfisher
Blue-tailed Bee-eater
Chestnut-headed Bee-eater
Dollarbird
Pied Triller
Black-naped Oriole
Pied Fantail
Pacific Swallow
Baya Weaver
Blue-tailed Bee-eater
After Kuala Gula, heading Taiping as promise to buy back “Miku” (special plain pau ? but family like it) …. than heading back South
3. Taiping-Malim Nawar-Alor Gajah
under the hot sun , we arrived Malim Nawar and Alor Gajah .. trying to locate Blue-tailed Bee Eater breeding site .. but sad it had been destroy for sand collection 🙁 … and also Oriental Pratincole breeding ground .
lucky a Chestnut-Headed Bee Eater breeding site still active and one nest seem to be ready too . we also have Black Bittern(flying out) and a close Blue-eared Kingfishers for beautiful picture too.
–> bird sights
Red Junglefowl
Crested Serpent-Eagle
Chestnut-headed Bee-eater
Oriental Pied-Hornbill
Black Bittern
Gray Heron
Purple Heron
Little Egret
White-bellied Sea-Eagle
White-breasted Waterhen
Eurasian Moorhen
Black-winged Stilt
Asian Koel
Blue-eared Kingfisher
Stork-billed Kingfisher
White-throated Kingfisher
Blue-tailed Bee-eater
Chestnut-headed Bee-eater
Lineated Barbet
And before dusk we heading back to Kuala Lumpur … a not back sites checking tour and we have
1. Blyth’s Paradise-Flycatcher, 中南寿带, 中南壽帶, Terpsiphone affinis, ブライスサンコウチョウ, MURAI-GADING BIASA
– male come either white, rufous morph with long-tailed
update 202311
– it is pretty common at lowland forest of Borneo, and this year seem it is my lucky bird. Each time after meet up this bird, ours’ main target will appear very soon.
– 在婆罗洲，很普通的鸟。今年，好几次都成为我的幸运鸟。遇上它后，目标鸟终是出现。
202307, Danum Valley, Sabah, Malaysia
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update 202103
– another good moment with this active bird
– 非常活躍的鳥。他在看我在做什麼。
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update 202102
– lucky moment to meet 3 of this beautiful Paradise-Flycatcher
– they make a lot of noise while moving around
– 幸運遇上3只這麼漂亮的壽帶 – 很吵，一直都跳不停。
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update 202102
– a beautiful Paradise-Flycatcher, male with long-tail and come either white-morph or rufous-morph
– this is a beautiful male passing with another male (not the full tail and another female
– they make a lot of noise when moving inside the forest
– 馬來西亞非常漂亮的鳥。他與其他兩只一起追逐也叫很多。
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update 2014 Jul 4
Asian Paradise Flycatcher, 壽帶鳥
from Borneo – Tawau Hill
2. Amur Paradise-Flycatcher, 寿带, 壽帶, Terpsiphone incei, アムールサンコウチョウ, MURAI-GADING UTARA
– it is easy to see the difference between the female, look at the gray transition
202009, Bukit Tinggi, Pahang, Malaysia
3. Japanese Paradise-Flycatcher, 紫寿带, 紫壽帶, Terpsiphone atrocaudata, サンコウチョウ, MURAI-GADING UNGU
– typical monarch, active calling loud like other. as per named, pale blue
– a Sulawesi endemic
– 如其他王鹟，活跃，叫不停。苏拉威西特有种
update 202307
– while we have our casual walk, heard this bird call and not long it calling really low .. bingo
– 天气太热，我们随便走走。突然听到这鸟叫，没用很长时间。就找到他了。
202304, Tangkoko, Sulawesi, Indonesia
101. Indian Paradise-Flycatcher, 印缅寿带, 印度綬帶, Terpsiphone paradisi, カワリサンコウチョウ
– another “Paradise Flycatcher” split previously but it is quite obvious “crest”
A graceful looking flycatcher, the adult male sport a long ribbonlike tail. The males occur in two color morphs cinnamon and white. Both color morphs sport a glossy black head with blue ring around the eye, but white morph is entirely white below while the cinnamon morph has cinnamon upperparts and tail, and dirty white underparts. The females are cinnamon above with a grayish throat, a shorter tail, and they lack the male’s blue eyering. They make short aerial sallies after insects, usually returning to the same perch. Occasionally descends to ground to pull apart insects. Chiefly found in wooded habitats. Their call is a harsh “shreew.” [ebird]
update 202401
– a bird that we saw many locations but it is just like others Paradise-Flycatcher, active and shy .. moving fast and almost no stop more than 1 second
