endemicguides Birds Report – 2020 Jan : 2 Targets Photography trip

a 3d2n bird special bird photography tour just target for 2 new bird family recent split – Pygmy Cupwing & Crested Shrikejay. As John & Linda working on collecting bird for each family of the world .

*** all bird list with pictures taken

Day1 – drive ~1.5 hour from KL to Fraser Hill . Foggy and very quick we just wait ~2 minute and got the bird and <10 minutes we are ready to leave …

Pygmy Cupwing

Gray-throated Babbler

so immediate without any time waste , we drove ~4.5 hour to our destination to try Shrikejay. But the forest just too quiet, not much activity.

 

Day2 – we arrive same site, and finally we got the Shrikejay very good view but due to cloudy day. light is not good ….

we wait until lunch time and give a try on 2nd spot . We dont have Shrikejay also ..but a

Crested Shrikejay

Brown-chested Jungle-Flycatcher

Rufous-chested Flycatcher

 

Day3- we repeat the Shrikejay searching in the morning for better picture quality . and immediate we arrive our site. less than 10 min, we got the bird for ~a hour and with better lighting .

after the Shrikejay left , we spend little bit time in the forest and we got

Crested Shrikejay

Blue-winged Leafbird

Black-and-red Broadbill

Red-bearded Bee-eater

Banded Kingfisher

Chestnut-breasted Malkoha

Scarlet-rumped Trogon

we had a pair a trogon before lunch time, and we decide leave earlier and if we arrive KL on time we will visit nearby site for Pitta. Whos dont love PITTA 😀

after 4 hour drive, we arrive KL site .Without much wait we got both Hooded Pitta & Blue-winged Pitta

Blue-winged Pitta

Hooded Pitta

Asian Openbill

Platylophidae series: Shrikejay | 冠鸦 | liewwk Nature – 1 [update 20230729]

Only one but both Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo having 2 different colors, size same species of bird

1. Crested Shrikejay, 冠鸦, 冠鴉, Platylophus galericulatus, カンムリカケス, BURUNG-MENJERIT
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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.

1. Crested Shrikejay, 冠鸦, 冠鴉, Platylophus galericulatus, カンムリカケス, BURUNG-MENJERIT

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

– 一大早,天下着雨。可是这么稀有的鸟竟然在我停车的地方飞来飞去。我也不理什么雨,下车与2位新加坡鸟人在雨下玩追追。

202307, Lenggor, Johor, Malaysia

update 202302

– 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

– 旧照片。没什么人会不喜欢这鸟。非常特别,活跃,婆罗洲的更是漂亮。

201708, Danum Valley, Lahad datu, Sabah, Malaysia

update 2020 March 28


update 2017 Aug 30

Borneo

update 2016 Jul 17

Peninsula Malaysia

– this time meet the bird with longer

 

 

 

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