Incredible Sulawesi: The Birds of North Sulawesi
Irshad Mobarak
Sulawesi is an island located in Indonesia, it is a naturalist wonder. Here the biogeography zone of the species rich Oriental continent fauna and flora in the west will collide with the relative improvised oceanic island flora and fauna of Wallacea to the east.
Sulawesi is the largest and the most geologically complex of all the islands of Wallacea because of the repeated collision between these two biogeographical zones. A unique laboratory in biological life has emerged to give you the most amazing experiment in…
Posted on July 26, 2009 in Trip Report | No comments
MONTANE BIRD ESCAPE
Irshad Mobarak
I have just come back from a birding trip up Maxwell Hill in the north of the state of Perak. Developed in 1880 Maxwell Hill is the first hill station in then British Malaya. It was built by the British as a cool escape from the sweltering heat of the tropical lowlands. The drive up is and adventure in itself and worth every cent of the RM 6.00 ringgit I paid. We took the first schedule shuttle at 8 am. A state government operates this…
Posted on December 18, 2008 in Trip Report | No comments
Taman Negara and Fraser’s Hill Birding
Jonathan
By Jonathan Wyplosz
August 2008
Finally we're back home.
You were right, Taman Negara was quite slow birding... but rewarding. As usual, Orane and I are lucky so we managed to see the anded pitta twice, once at 10 meters from out chalet!. We met Alan Pearson, the illustrator of a guide about Malaysian birds, who was not that lucky. The central tree in the HQ is never mentioned in any trip report though we were able to see in this single tree green broadbill (at less than 2…
Posted on August 30, 2008 in Bird Talk | No comments
Pittas in love and leeches on the menu!
Irshad Mobarak
The rains are here and the Blue-winged Pittas love it. The Blue-winged Pittas in my opinion is our most beautiful bird. The Japanese name for this bird, translated means 8 colored bird and only the laws of nature can put such a combination of colors together and what an amazing job it has come up with.
The Malay name is by comparison very unfaltering but nevertheless describes it feeding behavior accurately. The Malay name is Burung Pacat when translated simply means the Leech-eating Bird.
So why does this bird…
Posted on July 4, 2008 in Bird Talk | No comments
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