http://www.bird-malaysia.com/bird-talk Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:29:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.bird-malaysia.com/bird-talk/?p=29 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 ... http://www.bird-malaysia.com/bird-talk/?p=25 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 ... http://www.bird-malaysia.com/bird-talk/?p=19 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 ... http://www.bird-malaysia.com/bird-talk/?p=16 Trip Report: Irshad Mobarak Location: Lata Bukit Hijau, Kedah, Malaysia. Date: 20.4.08 The team left Langkawi on the first ferry at 7.45am and arrived at Kuala Kedah jetty at 9.15am. At the jetty we had a great view of the White–winged Tern in adult breeding color, and in the distance views of the ... http://www.bird-malaysia.com/bird-talk/?p=6 The dry season is well set in here on Langkawi Island, this very dry weather triggers the plants into flower which is then followed by the fruiting season and then the seeding season. And with the seeds come the early rains arrive once again to germinate those seeds and to ... http://www.bird-malaysia.com/bird-talk/?p=5 This is the season of love on the holiday island of Langkawi. By this I mean the birds and the birds. You see this island undergo a pronounced dry season that is not experienced any where else on the peninsular Malaysia. This dry season will last for between 21/2 months ... http://www.bird-malaysia.com/bird-talk/?p=4 This is the first entry in the blog and how nice to start it with a positive note. As of the 1st of Feb 2008, Langkawi, an island on the very north west of peninsular Malaysia got its first nature interpretive center. It has been a long time coming, and ... http://www.bird-malaysia.com/bird-talk/?p=3