Bird Malaysia’s team consist of specialist guides who are mostly members of the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) who is the BirdLife International Partner for Malaysia with intimate local knowledge of the rich habitat of East and West Malaysia birds. With a collective birding experience of over 20 years, the team is well-respected in the Malaysian birding circle, and have been honoured and respected by organizations and peers alike.

The team consist of Irshad Mobarak, Guna Segaran, Selvam Rahman and Hymeir Kamaruddin.

Irshad Mobarak

Irshad arrived in Langkawi 17 years ago, fell in love with its natural beauty and came to realize that nature conservation was his true calling. He is involved in a weekly local radio show, also assisting and appearing in several television documentaries including for the National Geographic Society (titled Hutan: Mysteries of the Malaysian Rainforest). The most recent, a short documentary-ad, which was aired on The Discovery Channel (titled The Wedding Ceremony of the White Bellied Sea Eagle). He also attended a short private course in taxonomy, and museum curation at the British Museum (Natural History) under the tutelage of the world-famous Lepidopterist, Bernard d’Abrera.

Irshad is currently resident naturalist for The Datai and Andaman Hotels where he conducts regular interpretive morning and evening walks. His walks are informative and entertaining.

"What I hope to achieve on my walks is to show to people that the forest is a living community of interactive and interdependent relationships. If we can instill in the hearts of people the wonders of the natural world first hand then we have created a friend of nature for life. I hope to have inspired them to make positive adjustments to help Mother Nature in any way they can".

Guna Segaran

Born on Maxwell Hill, the very amiable Guna comes with years of experience on the birds of the mountains and the foothills in and around the Bintang Range. He had started birding in1987 and he has guided many individuals and groups both local and foreign. He has even come face to face with a tiger up on Maxwell Hill! One of his favourite destinations is to visit Kuala Gula, were shorebirds and mangrove birds abound.