Our birding trips

Sabah 16-23Jul07

From GC

I personally saw or heard 141 species (including 26 endemics), 40 of them lifers.

Highlights included 2 Black headed Pittas at Kinabatangan; Everett's Thrush, Whitehead's Trogon (male and female) and Mountain Scops Owl at Mt. Kinabalu.and Black-breasted Fruithunter (Male, Female and juvenile) at Rafflesia Centre. Saw the Bornean Ground-Cuckoo also but it was running away, fast.

Complete list as follows:

Borneo (Sabah) 16-23 July 2007
Kinabatangan Jungle Camp 16-18
Poring 18-19
Mt. Kinabalu 19-21
Rafflesia Reserve 21-23

1. Great Argus Pheasant H
2. Crimson-headed Partridge H (Endemic)
3. Red-breasted Partridge H (Endemic)
4. Rufous Piculet
5. Checker-throated Woodpecker
6. Maroon Woodpecker
7. Buff-rumped Woodpecker
8. Gold-whiskered Barbet H
9. Yellow-crowned Barbet H
10. Red-throated Barbet H
11. Blue-eared Barbet H
12. Bornean Barbet (Endemic)
13. Mountain Barbet (Endemic)
14. Gold-naped Barbet H (Endemic)
15. Oriental Pied Hornbill
16. Rhinoceros Hornbill
17. Wreathed Hornbill
18. Whitehead's Trogon (Endemic)
19. Cinnamon-rumped Trogon H
20. Scarlet-rumped Trogon H
21. Blue-throated Bee-eater
22. Blue-eared Kingfisher
23. Stork-billed Kingfisher
24. Collared Kingfisher
25. Moustached Hawk Cuckoo H
26. Banded Bay Cuckoo H
27. Raffles' Malkoha
28. Chestnut-breasted Malkoha
29. Bornean Ground-Cuckoo (Endemic)
30. Greater Coucal H
31. Long-tailed Parakeet
32. Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot
33. Dollarbird
34. Glossy Swiftlet
35. Mountain Scops Owl
36. Sunda Frogmouth H
37. Buffy Fish Owl
38. Little Cuckoo Dove
39. Green Imperial Pigeon
40. Mountain Imperial Pigeon
41. Spotted Dove
42. Emerald Dove
43. Common Sandpiper
44. Jerdon’s Baza
45. White-bellied Sea-Eagle
46. Lesser Fish-Eagle
47. Crested Serpent Eagle
48. Brahminy Kite
49. Black-winged Kite
50. Wallace's Hawk-Eagle
51. Blyth's Hawk-Eagle
52. Great Egret
53. Intermediate Egret
54. Little Egret
55. Great-billed Heron
56. Oriental Darter
57. Storm's Stork
58. Hooded Pitta H
59. Black-headed Pitta (Endemic)
60. Black-and-red Broadbill
61. Black-and-yellow Broadbill H
62. Banded Broadbill
63. Asian Fairy Bluebird
64. Greater Green Leafbird
65. Kinabalu Leafbird (Endemic)
66. Ashy Drongo
67. Hair-crested Drongo
68. Bornean Treepie (Endemic)
69. Slender-billed Crow
70. Dark-throated Oriole
71. Black-and-crimson Oriole
72. Common Iora
73. Black-winged Flycatcher-shrike
74. Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike
75. Grey-chinned Minivet
76. Bornean Whistler (Endemic)
77. Pied Fantail
78. White-throated Fantail
79. Black-naped Monarch
80. Rufous-winged Philentoma
81. Bornean Whistling-Thrush (Endemic)
82. Everett's Thrush (Endemic)
83. Black-breasted Fruithunter (Endemic)
84. Eye-browed Jungle-flycatcher (Endemic)
85. Indigo Flycatcher
86. Little Pied Flycatcher
87. Snowy-browed Flycatcher
88. Malaysian Blue-flycatcher
89. Oriental Magpie Robin (Bornean Race – black bellies)
90. White-crowned Shama (Endemic)
91. White-crowned Forktail
92. Asian Glossy Starling
93. Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
94. Pacific Swallow
95. Black-headed Bulbul
96. Scaly-breasted Bulbul
97. Yellow-vented Bulbul
98. Flavescent Bulbul (Endemic)
99. Buff-vented Bulbul
100. Red-eyed Bulbul
101. Ochraceous Bulbul
102. Ashy Bulbul
103. Yellow-bellied Prinia H
104. Mountain Tailorbird
105. Ashy Tailorbird
106. Dark-necked Tailorbird H
107. Rufous-tailed Tailorbird
108. Flyeater
109. Bornean Stubtail (Endemic)
110. Sunda Bush Warbler
111. Mountain Leaf-warbler
112. Yellow-breasted Warbler
113. Mountain Black-eye (Endemic)
114. Black-capped White-eye
115. Chestnut-capped Laughing-thrush
116. Sunda Laughing-thrush
117. Bare-headed Laughing-thrush (Endemic)
118. White-chested Babbler
119. Striped Wren Babbler
120. Mountain Wren Babbler (Endemic)
121. Grey-throated Babbler
122. Black-throated Babbler
123. Chestnut-winged Babbler
124. Bold-striped Tit-Babbler
125. Fluffy-backed Tit-Babbler H
126. White-browed Shrike-babbler
127. Brown Fulvetta
128. Chestnut-crested Yuhina (Endemic)
129. Yellow-breasted Flowerpecker
130. Yellow-rumped Flowerpecker (Endemic)
131. Orange-bellied Flowerpecker
132. Black-sided Flowerpecker (Endemic)
133. Purple-naped Sunbird
134. Temminck's Sunbird
135. Crimson Sunbird
136. Brown-throated Sunbird
137. Little Spiderhunter
138. Bornean Spiderhunter (Endemic)
139. Dusky Munia (Endemic)
140. Black-headed Munia
141. Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Mammals
1. Bornean Gibbon
2. Long-tailed Macaque
3. Proboscis Monkey :D
4. Common Palm Civet
5. Bearded Pig
6. Flat-headed Cat
7. Common Treeshrew
8. Lesser Treeshrew
9. Black Giant Squirrel
10. Plain Pygmy Squirrel
11. Whitehead's Pygmy Squirrel
12. Kinabalu Squirrel

Reptiles
1. Estaurine Crocodile
2. Reticulated Python
3. Flying Lizard (Draco sp)
4. Small Skink
5. Big Skink
6. Tree climbing Skink
7. Keelback

Very common! saw 10 of them on a night cruise. (Buffy Fish Owl)

Beautiful fella. (Blue-eared Kingfisher)

A Bornean Endemic. (Black-headed Pitta)

Signature bird of Mount Kinabalu - not shy at all. Very common and confiding. (Indigo Flycatcher)

This fella was happily singing along the river side. (Striped Wren Babbler)

We were "anchored" along the river bank when this bird appeared out of the murky water - I wonder how it does its fishing in those waters. (Oriental Darter)

A juvenile. The mommy is blocked. (Malaysian Blue Flycatcher)

The nest was near our jungle camp. (Black-naped Monarch)

A Bornean Endemic. (White-crowned/White-browed Shama)

I think can forget about finding this fella in Peninsular Malaysia already! (Storm's Stork)

Quite a number of them - overstayers?? (Great Egret)

(Lesser Fish Eagle)

Considered unusual for this individual to come upriver. (Great-billed Heron)

A juvenile seen at Poring. as with all juveniles - totally unafraid, allowing full frame shot. (Little Spiderhunter)

A tough "brown job" at Poring. (Brown Fulvetta)

These fellas come in small flocks of 4-5 at Poring. (Buff-rumped Woodpecker)

Note the black belly. These guys are shy, maybe they are trapped for the bird trade? (Oriental Magpie Robin)

A Mt. Kinabalu bird. (White-crowned Forktail)

Spent 1.5 hours on a windy night before finally getting to see this owl! Fantastic thing is that this individual seems to be the only one known (anywhere) to be responsive to playback! (Mountain Scops Owl)