The list shows the notable bird sightings in
Sabah in the fourth quarter of 2012, feel free to email me if I miss out
anything.
A Word file with links to the relevant images is at Borneo Bird Images Document list.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Monday, December 3, 2012
Northern Pintail
Northern Pintail Anas acuta, a rare winter visitor to Sabah, Brunei and Sarawak side of Borneo. Quentin Phillipps lists this as the second commonest migrant duck after Garganey Anas querquedula (11 of which was sighted in Tawau last year, see link here).
One female was photographed on 13th November in Tawau, foraging with a group of resident Wandering Whistling Duck Dendrocygna javanica, however, it was not to be found the next day, it might have moved on further south.
It is my lifer bird; it is getting harder and harder to score a lifer now a days.
One female was photographed on 13th November in Tawau, foraging with a group of resident Wandering Whistling Duck Dendrocygna javanica, however, it was not to be found the next day, it might have moved on further south.
It is my lifer bird; it is getting harder and harder to score a lifer now a days.
Northern Pintail among the Wandering Whistling Ducks.
The brownish speculum indicates that this is a female instead of an eclipse male. Male in eclipse plumage resembles female but retain it distinctive metalic green speculum.
Happy birding.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Inland Mangrove Blue Flycatcher
First, inland Mangrove Blue Flycatcher is not a new bird species for Borneo!
Mangrove Blue Flycathcer Cyornis rufigastra, a take-for-granted flycatcher that inhabit coastal mangroves, coastal peat swamps, coastal forests and on offshore islands.
Quentin Phillips in his Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo states that it is sometimes found inland, overlapping Malaysian Blue Flycatcher Cynornis turcosus, this is proven true when this pair was photographed in Tawau Hills Park, foraging in and out of the forest edge to the adjacent oil palm plantations for consecutive two week-ends.
If you look at Google Maps, you can see that Tawau Hills Park is absolutely non-coastal.
Mangrove Blue Flycathcer Cyornis rufigastra, a take-for-granted flycatcher that inhabit coastal mangroves, coastal peat swamps, coastal forests and on offshore islands.
Quentin Phillips in his Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo states that it is sometimes found inland, overlapping Malaysian Blue Flycatcher Cynornis turcosus, this is proven true when this pair was photographed in Tawau Hills Park, foraging in and out of the forest edge to the adjacent oil palm plantations for consecutive two week-ends.
If you look at Google Maps, you can see that Tawau Hills Park is absolutely non-coastal.
So, take a closer look when you encounter a blue flycatcher inland, it might be a Mangrove Flycatcher instead of the expected Malaysian Blue or Hill Blue.
Happy birding.
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