Seletar Park Connector 12Feb26

From KH

Lots of activities at Seletar Park Connector today.

First, Pink-necked Green-Pigeons gorging on figs.

Male. Female.

Then, Rose-ringed Parakeets feeding on Creeping Cucumbers on a White Leadtree. Skunk Vine growing on the same leadtree.

Lots of Asian Openbills, including this one showing off its deshelled snail.

Shy OHB.

Not-so-shy Sunda Woodpecker.

Not-at-all-shy Large-tailed Nightjar, showing itself in broad daylight on a railing!

In a tree just beside the toilet, a pair of Little Bronze-Cuckoos were harassed by sunbirds, both Ornate and Brown-throated.

Male Little Bronze-Cuckoo. Female harassed by immature male Brown-throated Sunbird.

Male (left) and female Ornate Sunbirds.

Tree in which all the commotion happened.

Asian Brown Flycatcher just came to see what the whole commotion was about.

Arctic Warbler in the tree.

And Oriental Reed-Warbler in the reeds.

Male Ashy Tailorbird hanging out in the reeds too.

Swinhoe's White-eye foraging on Sea Almond.

Other animals included this butterfly, Common Mormon .

This rhino beetle.

Other trees here included this Earpod Wattle Acacia auriculiformis.

Mt Kinabalu 04Jun18

From KH

With Alim's tip, we managed to see 2 endemic Everett's Thrushes near Silau-Silau Hut at about 6am.

The Bornean Treepie is a common endemic, very noisy, but usually high up.

This endemic Bornean Whistler caught a stick insect!

While this endemic Bornean Stubtail was hiding in the undergrowth under low light condition...

Chestnut-hooded and Sunda Laughingthrushes were seen, but no sign of the Bare-headed Laughingthrush.

This Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush was removing the green gooey stuff from the caterpillar before swallowing it.

Here's a comparison between the Bornean (left) and Plume-toed Swiftlets.

How many bands can a Chestnut-crested Yuhina wear?

How about a Black-capped White-eye?

And Grey-throated Babbler?

This pair of Little Pied Flycatchers were apparently still building nest. The female (left) was carrying nesting material.

The juvenile Snowy-browed Flycatcher (left) has already fledged, and the Indigo Flycatcher came down to check us out.

The other common birds included:

Female Temminck's Sunbird. Sunda Bush Warbler.


Ochraceous Bulbul


Hair-crested Drongo. Ashy Drongo stigmatops subspecies.

Some of the squirrels here included the Brooke's Squirrel and the Bornean Mountain Ground Squirrel.

We had another Trilobite Beetle today.

There was a blackish caterpillar and another stick insect.

1. 5 Red-breasted Partridge - Heard
2. 3 Crimson-headed Partridge - Heard
3. 2 Little Cuckoo-Dove
4. 2 Sunda Cuckoo - Heard
5. 1 Bornean Swiftlet
6. 30 Plume-toed Swiftlet
7. 2 Golden-naped Barbet - Heard
8. 1 Gray-chinned Minivet - Male
9. 2 Bornean Whistler
10. 1 Blyth's Shrike-Babbler - Male
11. 1 Ashy Drongo
12. 1 Hair-crested Drongo
13. 2 White-throated Fantail
14. 4 Bornean Treepie
15. 3 Ochraceous Bulbul
16. 1 Bornean Stubtail
17. 4 Mountain Tailorbird - Heard
18. 2 Sunda Bush Warbler
19. 4 Mountain Leaf Warbler
20. 5 Yellow-breasted Warbler
21. 20 Chestnut-crested Yuhina
22. 4 Black-capped White-eye
23. 3 Gray-throated Babbler
24. 1 Temminck's Babbler
25. 2 Sunda Laughingthrush
26. 5 Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush
27. 2 Indigo Flycatcher
28. 1 Bornean Whistling-Thrush
29. 1 Snowy-browed Flycatcher - Juvenile
30. 2 Little Pied Flycatcher - A pair
31. 2 Everett's Thrush
32. 1 Bornean Leafbird - Heard
33. 2 Temminck's Sunbird