Showing posts with label lapwing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lapwing. Show all posts

Monday, December 2, 2013

Grey-headed Lapwing, vagrant to NW Borneo

I was lucky to photograph 2 Grey-headed Lapings Vanellus cinereus, on 25th November 2013 at Penampang Paddyfield, on the west coast of Sabah.

It is a vagrant to north-west coast of Borneo, less than 10 records so far, 3 previous records from Brunei (Late November to early December 1974,  September 1981 and September 1995), 2 previous records from Sarawak (January 1975 and October 1985) , 1 recent record from Sabah (November 2011).

These two birds on current visit was located by Mr. Eugene Cheah on 15th November, who alerted birders around Kota Kinabalu. Since I had earlier planned a family trip there on 23th, I brought along my camera to try my luck.

This is my lifer, my #392 photographed bird of Borneo.

 Immature bird
 Adult bird

Happy birding.

Photodocument of the wild birds of Borneo.

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