Our birding trips

Ayer Keroh, Bt Rengit, Bt Tinggi, Genting 12-13May07

99 species for this Malaysia trip. The highlites are the 2 trogons (red-naped, orange-breasted), 3 broadbills (banded, black-and-red, silver-breasted), and the grand finale at Telecom of Genting (golden-throated barbet, white-browed shrike-babbler, chestnut-tailed minla). The dips are the barred eagle owls and banded kingfisher at Ayer Keroh, the cinnamon-rumped trogon at Bt Rengit and red-billed malkoha at Bt Tinggi. However, we did meet many birders and photographers. At Ayer Keroh, we met Ang, who is none other than the keeper of the Ayer Keroh birdlist. At Bt Rengit, we met Tee Lian Huat, one of the Malaysian pioneers of digiscoping, as well as Korinpoh & Sree's gang of photographers at Bt Rengit.

Ayer Keroh (120507 0730-1100)
1 Common flameback 2
2 Banded woodpecker 1
3 Orange-backed woodpecker 1
4 White-throated kingfisher 1 pair
5 Asian koel heard
6 Chestnut-bellied malkoha 1
7 Long-tailed parakeet common
8 Blue-crowned hanging parrot 1
9 Grey-rumped treeswift common
10 Spotted dove common
11 Zebra dove 1
12 Pink-necked green-pigeon common
13 Banded broadbill 1 male
14 Black-and-red broadbill 1 nesting
15 Greater racket-tailed drongo >5
16 Black-naped oriole 1 heard
17 Common iora 1
18 Pied triller 1
19 Black-winged flycatcher-shrike >5
20 White-rumped shama 1
21 Oriental magpie robin common
22 Asian glossy starling common
23 Javan myna common
24 Pacific swallow common
25 Black-headed bulbul 4
26 Red-eyed bulbul 5
27 Yellow-vented bulbul common
28 Cream-vented bulbul 1 pair nesting
29 Olive-winged bulbul 1
30 Stripe-throated bulbul 1
31 Common tailorbird heard
32 Abbott's babbler heard
33 Striped tit-babbler heard
34 Orange-bellied flowerpecker common
35 Scarlet-backed flowerpecker common
36 Scaly-breasted munia 1

Bt Rengit (1400-1830)
1 Red junglefowl 1
2 Brown barbet 1 pair
3 Black hornbill 1 pair
4 Oriental pied hornbill 1 pair
5 Red-naped trogon 2
6 Scarlet-rumped trogon 1 heard
7 Rufous-backed kingfisher 1 pair
8 Indian cuckoo 1 seen, 1 heard
9 Drongo cuckoo 1 heard
10 Chestnut-breasted malkoha 1
11 Raffles' malkoha 1 pair
12 Lesser coucal 2
13 Dollarbird 1 nesting
14 Long-tailed parakeet common
15 Blue-rumped parrot 2
16 House swift 1
17 Emerald dove 1
18 Black-thighed falconet 3
19 Black-and-yellow broadbill heard
20 Greater racket-tailed drongo common
21 Bronzed drongo 1
22 Large-billed crow common in town
23 Black-naped monarch 1 female
24 White-rumped shama 1
25 Oriental magpie robin common
26 Asian glossy starling common
27 Javan myna common
28 Pacific swallow common
29 Yellow-vented bulbul 1
30 Spectacled bulbul 1
31 Hairy-backed bulbul 1
32 Yellow-bellied bulbul 1
33 Grey-cheeked bulbul 1
34 Abbott's babbler heard
35 Purple-naped sunbird 1

Bt Tinggi (130507 0630-0930)
1 Red-throated barbet 1 female
2 Black-browed barbet 1
3 Orange-breasted trogon 1
4 Red-bearded bee-eater 1
5 Indian cuckoo 1 heard
6 Drongo cuckoo 1 heard
7 Blue-rumped parrot 1 male
8 Glossy swiftlet common
9 Grey-rumped treeswift common
10 Large-tailed nightjar 1 heard
11 Silver-breasted broadbill 3
12 Black-and-yellow broadbill heard
13 Blue-winged leafbird 2
14 Greater green leafbird 1 male, 1 female
15 Lesser racket-tailed drongo 1
16 Grey-headed canary-flycatcher 1
17 Rufous-browed flycatcher 2
18 Oriental magpie robin common
19 White-tailed robin 2
20 Black-crested bulbul 4
21 Stripe-throated bulbul common
22 Yellow-vented bulbul 1 at hotel
23 Ochraceous bulbul 2
24 Grey-cheeked bulbul 1
25 Rufous-tailed tailorbird 1
26 Grey-throated babbler common
27 Golden babbler 1
28 Purple-naped sunbird 1 male
29 Streaked spiderhunter common
30 Eurasian tree sparrow common at hotel

Genting (1130-1430)
Awana (1130-1230)
1 Black-browed barbet 1
2 Brown barbet 1
3 Orange-bellied leafbird 2
4 Brown shrike 1
5 Olive-winged bulbul 1
6 Grey-cheeked bulbul 2
7 Long-tailed sibia 3

en-route to Telecom
8 Grey-chinned minivet 2

Telecom (1300-1430)
9 Golden-throated barbet 1
10 Glossy swiftlet common
11 Mountain imperial pigeon 3
12 Crested serpent eagle 2
13 Rusty-naped pitta 2 heard
14 Large niltava 1 male, 1 female
15 Mountain bulbul 2
16 Mountain tailorbird 2
17 Mountain leaf warbler 5
18 Chestnut-capped laughingthrush 1
19 Chestnut-crowned laughingthrush 2
20 White-browed shrike-babbler 1 male, 1 female
21 Chestnut-tailed minla 5
22 Black-throated sunbird 1 male, 1 female

Photos from Gim Cheong

The bird does not have 1) black brow 2) black malar stripe 3) yellow throat, which are diagnostic for Black-browed Barbet. Instead it has 1) blue face, 2) greenish throat with yellow tinge, 3) thickset bill, which are diagnostic for female Red-throated Barbet! Robson say it occurs up to 760m but Jeyarajasingam say it occurs up to 1000m.

Cutie of Ayer Keroh.

Ayer Keroh - a male.

Ayer Keroh bird.

Common at both Ayer Keroh and Bukit Tinggi.

Shy fella from Ayer Keroh.

This one was also nesting at Ayer Keroh, bringing food to the chicks which were silent.

Bukit Tinggi bird - Caught in mid air!!

Bukit Tinggi bird - high up, but observing us.

Another Bukit Tinggi bird

A star bird for me @ Bukit Tinggi.

@ Genting Telecom Road

@ Genting Telecom Road.

@ Genting Telecom Road, not recorded at Fraser's Hill due to altitude.

Tiny fella @ Genting Telecom Road, but very nice song, makes you wanna sit down, have a cup of tea and enjoy the song.....

Left: Juvenile at Ayer Keroh. Right: Adult at Ayer Keroh

This bird was very co-operative and kept calling. So co-operative that Danny figured it is somebody's pet!! And Kok Hui wondered whether it needs to go and feed! But I left the camera at ISO 800 cos I was shooting the Black-and-Red Broadbill using daylight and forgot about it. So gotta go back one of these days to get better shots of the Trogon!