Kinabatangan 10Jun18 am

From KH

5 raptors:

Grey-headed Fish-eagle. Wallace's Hawk-eagle.

Jerdon's Baza. Adult Brahminy Kite.

Male White-fronted Falconet flying in with prey to hand over to female, who gladly took it!

3 hornbills:

Female White-crowned Hornbill. Bushy-crested Hornbill.

Black Hornbill (left female, right male)

2 resident kingfishers.

Female Blue-eared Kingfisher showing her back and front.

Stork-billed Kingfisher

1 rare austral migrant - Sacred Kingfisher.

Storm's Storks (left) and Great Egret.

And other birds:

Blur shot of Square-tailed Drongo-cuckoo. 100% crop of Pink-necked Green-pigeons.

100% crop of Blue-throated Bee-eaters.

Butt shot of Slender-billed Crows.

At last, something close and open: White-chested Babbler.

1. 4 Storm's Stork
2. 1 Lesser Adjutant
3. 2 Oriental Darter
4. 5 Purple Heron
5. 5 Great Egret
6. 1 Jerdon's Baza
7. 1 Crested Serpent-Eagle
8. 1 Changeable Hawk-Eagle - Dark morph
9. 1 Wallace's Hawk-Eagle - Juvenile
10. 1 Brahminy Kite
11. 1 Gray-headed Fish-Eagle - Adult
12. 1 Asian Emerald Dove
13. 5 Pink-necked Pigeon
14. 5 Green Imperial-Pigeon
15. 3 Greater Coucal
16. 1 Raffles's Malkoha
17. 1 Plaintive Cuckoo - Heard
18. 1 Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo - Heard
19. 5 Plume-toed Swiftlet
20. 30 dark swiftlet sp.
21. 1 White-crowned Hornbill - Female
22. 1 Rhinoceros Hornbill - Heard
23. 1 Bushy-crested Hornbill
24. 4 Black Hornbill
25. 2 Oriental Pied-Hornbill
26. 4 Blue-eared Kingfisher
27. 2 Stork-billed Kingfisher
28. 1 Sacred Kingfisher
29. 5 Blue-throated Bee-eater
30. 2 Dollarbird
31. 1 Brown Barbet
32. 1 Blue-eared Barbet
33. 1 Red-throated Barbet - Heard
34. 2 White-fronted Falconet - A pair
35. 5 Long-tailed Parakeet
36. 2 Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot
37. 5 Black-and-red Broadbill
38. 2 Black-and-yellow Broadbill - Heard
39. 3 Hooded Pitta - Heard
40. 1 Common Iora
41. 1 Dark-throated Oriole - Heard
42. 1 Greater Racket-tailed Drongo - Heard
43. 2 Malaysian Pied-Fantail
44. 1 Black-naped Monarch - Heard
45. 5 Slender-billed Crow
46. 3 Pacific Swallow
47. 2 Red-eyed Bulbul
48. 3 Ashy Tailorbird
49. 1 Yellow-bellied Prinia - Heard
50. 2 Bold-striped Tit-Babbler - Heard
51. 2 Chestnut-winged Babbler - Heard
52. 5 White-chested Babbler
53. 2 White-rumped Shama (White-crowned) - Heard
54. 2 Malaysian Blue Flycatcher - Heard
55. 5 Asian Glossy Starling
56. 1 Common Hill Myna - Heard
57. 1 Orange-bellied Flowerpecker - Heard
58. 1 Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker - Heard

Sepilok 07Jun18 late afternoon

From KH

After a good afternoon siesta, we headed back to RDC.

The Wallace's Hawk-eagle put on a great show this afternoon. First, we noted a nest on a tall tree between the two towers.

Then, we saw the juvenile flying in looking very excited. We soon found out that one of the adults caught a rat!

The juvenile on the right was seen looking intensely at the rat.

The adult did not feed the juvenile, but went on to feast! The juvenile was later seen flying to another nest.

While this was going on, an adult Brahminy Kite did a fly-by.

And Dollarbirds were having a gathering.

A pair of Black Hornbills (female left, male right) to close the day's birding.

Sepilok 06Jun18

From KH

After a few hours drive from Mt Kinabalu, we reached Rainforest Discovery Centre.

The Canopy Walkway is a great place to see some of the common birds here.

Ashy Tailorbird


Chestnut-winged Babbler

Some of the Cream-vented Bulbuls here have red eyes! So care must be taken.

The Red-eyed Bulbuls actually have more orangey eyes here. Juveniles have dark eyes though.

The first endemic we encountered here was this male Yellow-rumped Flowerpecker.

Some of the sunbirds here included:

Juvenile van Hasselt's Sunbird


Female Brown-throated Sunbird

Some have split the Bornean Brown Barbet as a distinct species. It does look different from the Peninsular Malaysia ones, which are called Sooty Barbets after the split.

Saw this broadbill nest, but no idea who's it is.

Wallace Hawk-eagles were common here. This was a juvenile.

Another raptor we encountered today was this juvenile Brahminy Kite.

There were also a young Orangutan (right) and its shy mother around.

This Green Crested Lizard didn't want to show us it face.

Then, we heard a pitta call - Black-crowned Pitta!

1. 1 Wallace's Hawk-Eagle - Juvenile
2. 1 Brahminy Kite - Juvenile
3. 1 Greater Coucal - Heard
4. 1 Banded Bay Cuckoo - Heard
5. 30 Plume-toed Swiftlet
6. 30 dark swiftlet sp.
7. 1 Helmeted HornbillSensitive - Heard
8. 1 Bushy-crested Hornbill - Heard
9. 1 Black Hornbill - Heard
10. 1 Blue-throated Bee-eater
11. 4 Brown Barbet
12. 2 Blue-eared Barbet - Heard
13. 1 Maroon Woodpecker - Heard
14. 1 Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot - Heard
15. 1 Black-crowned Pitta
16. 2 Malaysian Pied-Fantail
17. 10 Cream-vented Bulbul
18. 6 Red-eyed Bulbul
19. 1 Spectacled Bulbul
20. 2 Dark-necked Tailorbird
21. 2 Ashy Tailorbird
22. 1 Rufous-tailed Tailorbird - Heard
23. 1 Yellow-bellied Prinia - Heard
24. 4 Chestnut-winged Babbler
25. 5 Asian Glossy Starling
26. 1 Yellow-rumped Flowerpecker
27. 1 Van Hasselt's Sunbird - Juvenile
28. 50 Eurasian Tree Sparrow