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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Juvenile Rufous Night Heron

20th February 2009



From the tip given from Jordan and wife, I went one of the modern village in the city for the Rufous Night Heron. When I arrived, saw at least 10 adult and juvenile birds roosting together with the Black-crowned Night Heron at one of the tree surrounded by water from a nearby drain. Other birds seen, Oriental Magpie Robin, Yellow-vented Bulbul and Oriental Reed Warbler.

This Heron becoming uncommon now and a small colony also found at Kota Kinabalu Wetland Centre. It is norturnal and feed on fish. Hope the birds remained at the small patch.

Digiscoped with Nikon Fieldscope ED82, SRB-Griturn Mk II adapter and Fujifilm F31D




Juvenile Rufous Night Heron, still long way to go ...


Black-crowned Night Heron


Happy birding my friends :)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice picture you have... TQ

Jordan Sitorus said...

Great close up shots la...Hahaha

digdeep said...

Cantik sekali! We got Malaysian NH, but you got Rufous NH - kiasu!! Great shots
Dave

Unknown said...

Awesome head-on shot and the eye level perspectice makes it even better...Thomas