Birding With Kees Scharingga

26-27th June 2015

Kees and wife has been around Sabah for 2 weeks mainly for birds and other wildlife. He sent me his target birds which he missed and we spent 2 days looking for it at Keningau and Tambunan area. Mahua Waterfall was the first destination followed by birding along the busy Tambunan road, Crocker Range HQ, Gunung Alab Sub-station and Sugud Forest at Penampang.

Key birds seen:

• Pygmy White Eye
• Bornean Bulbul
• Mt Barbet
• Bornean Barbet
• Bornean Forktail
• Red-crowned Barbet
• Green Broadbill

 Images taken with Swarovski STX 95 + TLS APO + Nikon V1 ~ All Rights Reserved ©

Bornean Forktail seen along the river at Mahua in the morning

The uncommon to rare Red-crowned Barbet at Sugud

Andrew were busy with the Rufous Woodpecker

Kees at Gunung Alab Sub-station looking at the Mt Blackeye

Happy birding!

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Bornean Forktail (Enicurus borneoensis)

9th April 2011

While waiting for the Whitehead's Trogon with Joe and Sis, suddenly a pair of these elusive and rather shy Forktail appeared from the nearby stream right onto the busy road leading up to the Power Station. It was seen feeding around the area for nearly an hour providing excellent opportunity for pictures !

Bornean Forktail (Enicurus borneoensis) (BF) was split (Moyle et al 2005) from White-crowned Forktail (Enicurus leschenaulti) (WCF) based on the followings :

• The white shield stop on top of its forehead whereas WCF extended on the crown.
• Much bigger in size than WCF with longer and has 4 pair of white patches on its tail
• Different vocalizations
• Different habitat with BF mostly found at the mountains e.g Kinabalu National Park and WCF further down lowland forest e.g Danum Valley

Digiscoped with Nikon Fieldscope EDG85 via Nikon FSA-L2 DSLR Photo Adapter on Nikon D300s and 80-400mm VR lens

Happy birding !