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Avian Post-nesting July 2020 - Feeding time in Bukit Fraser
In the month of June - July the opportunity to get feeding action is there to capture. I was in Bukit Fraser for such an opportunity. It is not easy to shoot at low speed sub1/60s in low light...
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Avian Photo Gear - Luminar Editing Software Review
Before and After using Luminar4I was using a trial version Luminar 4.0 recently and I am quite impressed with its ease of use for its simplified scaling bar that suit my liking. The best is the one tap...
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Avian Photo Gear - Arriving of Canon RF 100-500mm, 600mm and 800mm telephoto...
Canon RF 100-500mm, 600mm and 800mm telephoto lenses is coming as early as July 2020!Is this going to be a game changer for Canon Birders. I cannot wait for its review. Hope Canon can do a Demo outing...
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Avian Sighting Bukit Tinggi July 2020 - Mountain Peocock Pheasant
Bird life at BT is sporadic and sparse last weekend. The only consolation is the resident MPP showing up. The male and female come out separately at long interval I suspect there is a nesting down the...
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Avian Sighting July 2020 - Blyth's Hawk Eagle
The bird was sighted at Richmond trail in the afternoon. Unfortunately for me it landed behind the dead tree trunk at about 150 ft out in the ravine. Hence the record shot. It has a single broad white...
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Avian Sighting August 2020 - Green-billed Malkoha
A pair of Green-billed was sighted foraging together with a pair Black-browed Barbet in Awana Genting. You seldom get to shoot them in the open. The former is a regular sighting here whilst the...
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Jungle flycatcher (3/5) August 2020 - Grey-chested Jungle Flycatcher (Lifer 540)
In Peninsula Malaysia we can sight 2 subspecies of Jungle Flycatchers. This one here is a resident of Malaysia virgin jungle. whilst the Brown-chested is a winter migrant visitor. The Fulvous Jungle...
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Avian sighting August 2020 - Finsch's Bulbul & Streaked Bulbul
These are some of the less common seen lowland Bulbuls of Peninsula Malaysia. The Finsch's has this puffy yellow throat and dirty yellow body. The bird was quite approachable that day as there were...
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Wader (60/70) August 2020 - White-headed Stilt aka Pied Stilt (Lifer 541)
The Pied Stilt or White-headed was always in my look out's list during the migratory period which starts as early as August till December in Peninsula. When news came from TK that there is a sighting...
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Iora (3/3) August 2020 - Great Iora (Lifer 542)
Finally a fluke appearance of a subadult or a variant male Great Iora made the trip down Negeri Sembilan worthwhile. Thanks Tokki for the heads up.The bird pop out from nowhere as I shouted out...
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Avian sighting August 2020 - Family of Pale Blue Flycatchers
This flycatcher is a middle storey dweller of hill forest and is confiding in the human present. The male can be mistaken for the juvenile or female Verditer minus the black lore. The birds came out...
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Avian Nesting July 2020 - Common Flameback Woodpecker
In the month of July we can still see nesting in progress. For the past weeks many have come to shoot this Common Flameback Woodie in the vicinity of Ampang Kuala Lumpur. For the first shooting the...
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December 2020 - Avian Sighting Zappey's Flycatcher
It was a good outing to Ampang during the last week of December to shoot this rarely seen migrant. I was inactive for the past months since the Covid-19 MCO restriction. So when news came my way that...
View ArticleAvian Video - Violet Cuckoo
This is a short clip of my sighting of a pair of Violet Cuckoo of my yesteryears birding in Kemensah or Taman TAR Ampang. It can be seen in lowland forest and suburbs near forest fringes. It does...
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Avian Species Split - Black-backed Swamphen
The black-backed swamphen (Porphyrio indicus) is a species of swamphen occurring from southeast Asia to Sulawesi and Borneo. It used to be considered a subspecies of the purple swamphen, which it...
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Mar 2021 - Avian Sighting Blue-winged Pitta
Its been another month Klang valley was under lockdown When it finally allow for cross district travelling I was eager to do some birding excursion within Klang Valley or to Genting Highland.Taman TAR...
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Pond-Heron (2/3) in March 2021 - Javan Pond-heron (Lifer 543)
Javan Pond-heron is a medium size water bird which can be found in coastal wetland and padi/rice fields in Malaysia. In breeding plummage it has a lighter golden head and neck shoulder as compared...
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Avian Encounter Mar 2021- Little Grebe
It was a close encounter of just 30-40ft with my Nikon P1000 in Kelanang Banting. It is my first time there and the place is happening with many migrant birds still sticking around closed to the river...
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CRAKE 4/7 - March 2021 Baillon's Crake (Lifer 544)
Awesome find near Banting about 1.5 hours from Kuala Lumpur city centre. This year the Baillon's Crake was also sighted in Sg Rambai Melaka, Sg Balang Johor and Tanjung Karang Selangor. I was adamant...
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Minivet 4/4 - Scarlet Minivet (lifer 545)
I was checking on my minivet series for reference and found that my Scarlet posting had gone missing even from my archive of lifers. So after consultation with LeeFung of regular sighting of a family...
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