7th - 20th November 2010
2 weeks birding around Sabah produced at least 5 lifers for me ! Everett's White Eye, Bar-bellied Cuckoo Shrike, Brown-backed Flowerpecker and the Copper-throated Sunbird which I missed during the 2nd Borneo Bird Festival held at Rainforest Discovery Centre Sepilok last October and making up my Borneo List to 440 birds now.
The group comprised of 15 birders from Switzerland under Liberty-Bird led by James Eaton and me was split into 2 groups to maximized numbers of birds sighting on each places.
Key species seen :
- Tabon Scrubfowl
- Chinese Egret
- Grey-faced Buzzard
- Grey-headed Fish Eagle
- Aleutian Tern
- Thick-billed Green Pigeon
- Blue-rumped Parrot
- Moustached Hawk Cuckoo
- Oriental Cuckoo
- Bornean Ground Cuckoo
- Helmeted Hornbill (Daily seen and heard at Borneo Rainforest Lodge)
- Whitehead's Broadbill
- Bar-bellied Cuckoo Shrike
- Bornean Bristlehead
- Kinabalu Friendly Warbler
- Bornean Wren Babbler
- Bornean Blue Flycatcher
- Brown-backed Flowerpecker
- Copper-throated Sunbird
- Thick-billed Spiderhunter
Pictures digiscoped with Nikon Fieldscope EDG85, 30x eyepiece via Nikon FSB-6 Adapter on Nikon P5100
Access road at Borneo Rainforest Lodge
Libert-Bird group
At Kinabatangan River with Robert Chong
One of the best food I had !
Accommodation and facilites at Kinabatangan Jungle Camp
Black & Crimson Pitta
Bornean Stubtail
Wallace's Hawk Eagle
Great-billed Heron
Asian Paradise Flycatcher
Helmeted Hornbill
Red-naped Trogon
Bornean angle-headed Lizard
White-tailed Flycatcher
Grey-chested Jungle Flycatcher
Forest Tortoise
Whiskered Treeswift
Grey-faced Buzzard
Thick-billed Spiderhunter
Maroon Langur
I will be off to Beaufort for the Hook-billed Bulbul soon. Happy birding everyone !
