Eyebrowed Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias gularis is an endemic of Borneo, it is a common montane resident along the north-central mountain ranges from G. Kinabalu to G. Murud and G. Menyapa.
It was previously lumped with three races of Jungle Flycatcher found in the Phillippines, split by Wolters (1980) from the Phillippines forms as an endemic monotypic species.
It usually perched on the lower branches in the lower storey and hunt close to ground, it moves on the ground and through the undergrowth much like a thrush.
It can easily be seen and photographed in bushes behind the Liwagu Restaurant in Kinabalu Park. These images of this endemic species, my new bird, were taken there.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike
Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike Hemipus picatus is a common resident of Borneo, it is mainly a sub-montane and montane bird, probably occurring throughout the mountains of Borneo, mostly from 750 to 1835 m, but occasionally brlow 150m.
It is also recorded in low altitude lowland dipterocarp forest at Kalabakan near Tawau.
I saw this bird in Kinabalu Park and Rafflesia Centre, which are montane. I have yet to see it from lowland forests.
This male bird was photographed in Rafflesia Centre, it is my new photographed wild bird.
It is also recorded in low altitude lowland dipterocarp forest at Kalabakan near Tawau.
I saw this bird in Kinabalu Park and Rafflesia Centre, which are montane. I have yet to see it from lowland forests.
This male bird was photographed in Rafflesia Centre, it is my new photographed wild bird.
Happy birding.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Fruithunter
Fruithunter Chlamydochaera jefferyi is endemic to Borneo where it is a decidedly local montane species (700–3,200 m), occurring in Sabah and Sarawak (Malaysia) along the highland chain from Gunung Kinabalu to Gunung Mulu, and also Gunung Dulit (Smythies and Davison 1999). In Kalimantan (Indonesia) it has been recorded west to Gunung Nyiat (Prieme and Heegaard 1988) and south to Bukit Baka Nature Reserve (Rice 1989). It is an aberrant, strikingly marked, thrush-like bird occupying a monotypic genus that was once linked with trillers Lalage or orioles Oriolus (MacKinnon and Phillipps 1993), but is now thought to be associated with thrushes Turdinae (Ames 1975, Ahlquist et al. 1984), or cochoas Cochoa (Olson 1987). (Forktail 18, 2002).
It is not recorded in Kelabit Highland in Sarawak.
It is an unmistakable bird in the field, its black and buff pattern on the head and black breast are diagnostic. When sitting, their position is pigeon-like, but when they congregate at berry trees, they act much like bulbuls. They also resembles laughingthrushes in some behaviors and often occur in pairs. Their flight is like that of a campephagid, in that they dip their pointed wings in and out rather than flap.
This pair is photographed in Rafflesia Centre, Tambunan, my new bird.
It is not recorded in Kelabit Highland in Sarawak.
It is an unmistakable bird in the field, its black and buff pattern on the head and black breast are diagnostic. When sitting, their position is pigeon-like, but when they congregate at berry trees, they act much like bulbuls. They also resembles laughingthrushes in some behaviors and often occur in pairs. Their flight is like that of a campephagid, in that they dip their pointed wings in and out rather than flap.
This pair is photographed in Rafflesia Centre, Tambunan, my new bird.
Male
Male
Female
Happy birding.
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