Birding with Mel, Trinket and Adrian

 12-17th July 2022

We drove at midnight from Kota Kinabalu International Airport to Mt. Kinabalu and stayed for 2 nights and saw the Fruithunter on our first morning at Kinabalu Park HQ. Whitehead's Broadbill and Trogon were visible as well including the tiny Bornean Stubtail with its high pitch tone captured on the phone by Mel!

On our way to Sepilok, we tried the Blue-banded Pitta but no respond were heard then upon reaching the My Nature Resort, we were greeted with Lesser and Greater Green Leafbird feeding on the fruiting tree in front of the lobby with Red-eyed Bulbul and also Malaysian Pied Fantail. Bornean Bristlehead were seen on the next afternoon and it stayed until we left the viewing platform with another bonus of the rare Greater Mousedeer!

For Kinabatangan River, no sound of the Bornean Ground-Cuckoo but it was compensated with White-crowned Hornbill, Bornean Falconet, Bat Hawk and Sabah Chestnut-necklaced Partridge seena and photographed less than 5 metres from the boat!

I managed to get 6 new birds for my Sabah Big Year 2022 and with a total of 177 species recorded for the trip:

1. Bornean Chestnut-necklaced Partridge (E)
   
2. Red-breasted Partridge (E)
   
3. Storm's Stork
   
4. Little Green Heron
5. Purple Heron
6. Little Egret
7. Great Egret
8. Cattle Egret
9. Oriental Darter
10. Changeable Hawk-Eagle
11. Wallace's Hawk-Eagle
12. White-bellied Sea-Eagle
13. Brahminy Kite
14. Crested Serpent Eagle
15. Bat Hawk
16. Black-shouldered Kite
17. Bornean Falconet (E)
18. Besra
19. Crested Goshawk
20. White-breasted Waterhen
21. Zebra Dove
22. Spotted Dove
23. Emerald Dove
24. Cinnamon-headed Pigeon
25. Little Green Pigeon
26. Pink-necked Green Pigeon
27. Green Imperial Pigeon
28. Mountain Imperial Pigeon
29. Long-tailed Parakeet
30. Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot
31. Sunda Cuckoo
32. Violet Cuckoo
33. Banded Bay Cuckoo
34. Brush Cuckoo
35. Greater Coucal
36. Chestnut-breasted Malkoha
37. Red-billed Malkoha
38. Raffles's Malkoha
39. Buffy Fish Owl
40. Oriental Bay Owl
41. Boobook
42. Sunda Scops Owl
43. Grey-rumped Treeswift
44. Plum-toed Swiftlet
45. White-Nest Swiftlet
46. Diard's trogon
47. Red-naped Trogon
48. Scarlet-rumped Trogon
49. Whitehead's Trogon (E)
50. Collared Kingfisher
51. Blue-eared Kingfisher
52. Stork-billed Kingfisher
53. Rufous-backed Kingfisher
54. Blue-throated Bee-Eater
55. Dollarbird
56. White-crowned Hornbill
57. Bushy-crested Hornbill
58. Oriental Pied Hornbill
59. Asian Black Hornbill
60. Wrinkled Hornbill
61. Rhinoceros Hornbill
62. Golden-naped Barbet (E)
63. Yellow-crowned Barbet
64. Red-throated Barbet
65. Blue-eared Barbet
66. Bornean Brown Barbet
67. Common Flameback
68. Maroon Woodpecker
69. Rufous Woodpecker
70. White-bellied Woodpecker
71. Banded Woodpecker
72. Crimson-winged Woodpecker
73. Orange-backed Woodpecker
74. Great Slaty Woodpecker
75. Rufous Piculet
76. Buff-rumped Woodpecker
77. Black & Red Broadbill
78. Black & Yellow Broadbill
79. Whitehead's Broadbill (E)
80. Black-crowned Pitta (E)
81. Hooded Pitta
82. Green Iora
83. Common Iora
84. Lesser Grean Leafbird
85. Greater Green Leafbird
86. Scarlet Minivet
87. Black-winged Flycatcher-Shrike
88. Sunda Cuckoo-Shrike
89. Bornean Whistler (E)
90. Long-tailed Shrike
91. Dark-throated Oriole
92. Asian Fairy-Bluebird
93. Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
94. Bronzed Drongo
95. Hair-crested Drongo
96. Bornean Black Magpie (E)
97. Slender-billed Crow
98. Bornean Green Magpie (E)
99. Bornean Treepie (E)
100. Bornean Bristlehead (E)
101. Pacific Swallow
102. White-breasted Woodswallow
103. Dark-necked Tailorbird
104. Rufous-tailed Tailorbird
105. Ashy Tailorbird
106. Mountain Tailorbird
107. Yellow-bellied Prinia
108. Grey-bellied Bulbul
109. Olive-winged Bulbul
110. Yellow-vented Bulbul
111. Cream-vented Bulbul
112. Cream-eyed Bulbul (E)
113. Red-eyed Bulbul
114. Spectacled Bulbul
115. Streaked Bulbul
116. Yellow-bellied Bulbul
117. Charlotte's Bulbul (E)
118. Grey-cheeked Bulbul 
119. Mountain Leaf-Warbler
120. Yellow-breasted Warbler
121. Yellow-bellied Warbler
122. Bornean Stubtail (E)
123. Striated Grassbird
124. Sabah Black-capped Babbler (E)
125. Temminck's Babbler
126. White-chested Babbler
127. Mountain Wren-Babbler (E)
128. Black-throated Wren-Babbler (E)
129. Grey-throated Babbler
130. Chestnut-rumped Babbler
131. Black-throated Babbler
132. Chestnut-winged Babbler
133. Bold-striped Tit-Babbler (E)
134. Erpornis
135. Chestnut-crested Yuhina (E)
136. Blyth's Shrike-Babbler 
137. Sunda Launghing-Thrush
138. Chestnut-hooded Laughing-Thrush (E)
139. Bare-headed Laughing-Thrush (E)
140. Black-capped White-Eye
141. Javan Myna
142. Hill Myna
143. Asian Glossy Starling
144. Fruithunter (E)
145. Oriental Magpie Robin
146. White-crowned Shama (E)
147. Bornean Forktail (E)
148. White-crowned Forktail
149. Eyebrowed Jungle Flycatcher (E)
150. Snowy-browed Flycatcher
151. Little Pied Flycatcher
152. Malaysian Blue Flycatcher
153. Indigo Flycatcher
154. White-browed Shortwing
155. White-throated Fantail
156. Malaysian Pied Fantail
157. Black-naped Monarch
158. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
159. Orange-bellied Flowerpecker
160. Bornean Flowerpecker (E)
161. Van Haselt's Sunbird
162. Olive-backed Sunbird
163. Eastern Crimson Sunbird
164. Temminck's Sunbird
165. Rubycheek
166. Brown-throated Sunbird
167. Purple-naped Spiderhunter
168. Little Spiderhunter
169. Thick-billed Spiderhunter
170. Spectacled Spiderhunter
171. Whitehead's Spiderhunter (E)
172. Yellow-eared Spiderhunter
173. Long-billed Spiderhunter
174. Dusky Munia (E)
175. Black-headed Munia
176. Eurasian Tree Sparrow
177. Baya Weaver

 Images taken with Swarovski Optik. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Wit Mel at the new canopy walkway extension by Rainforest Discovery Centre, Sepilok

 

 

 With the staffs at Sukau Greenview Lodge, Kinabatangan River

Taking pics of the Yellow-breasted Warbler

Whitehead's Broadbill digiscoped with Swarovski Optik

Video recording by Adri

Bornean Forktail, another endemic from Mt. Kinabalu

With Adri and CK!

Black Hornbill

Birding at the canopy walkway, Sepilok

White-bellied Woodpecker, one of the largest in Sabah

 

Watching the Changeable Hawk-Eagle reusing the old nest on the tall Menggaris tree

We got the Bat Hawk!

Sleepy Buffy Fisg Owl at Kinabatangan River

Best birding with the boat at the river

Gift from the Philippines!

With the Yoko Yoko Bird Team; Mirwan, Mark and John

Another one for the picture #SwarovskiOptik Team

Happy birding and stay safe everyone!