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Tag: bird watching
Birding in Ipoh, Kinta valley - our photo collection
We are stashing all bird photos in this post. These are birds that we came across during our travels around the Malaysian countryside. As and when we shoot more, new photo entries will be deposited into this post. Enjoy.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2009 under Nature - Bird Watching.
Tags: bird watch, bird watching, birdlife, ecology, Malaysian
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A tale of the birds and bees
A bee-eater’s life is more like a plot taken out of TV soap series. Deceit, sleaze and power struggle, almost everything naughty and nice you can think of happens.
Bee-eaters dig burrows for nesting. When a female leaves her nest to feed, other females may sneak in to lay eggs, fooling the neighbour into raising a [...]
Posted: March 7th, 2009 under Nature - Bird Watching.
Tags: bird watching, birding, Malaysia
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On a wing and prayer over coastal Perak
Birds of same feather sometimes don’t flock together. One such fine example is coastal Perak. The shoreline is practically teeming with birds of every pomp and pageantry, all congregating together to feed on nature’s bounty.
Kuala Gula needs no introduction but that’s just a blip in Perak’s map. Imagine the scale of opportunity if one [...]
Posted: February 9th, 2009 under Malaysia - Maps & travel tutorials, Nature - Bird Watching.
Tags: bird watching, birding, kuala gula, Kuala Selangor, Lumut
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Bird Watching - Baya Weavers are good hubbys
Call it genetic memory.
It’s amazing how the Baya Weavers (Ploceus philippinus), locally known as Burung Tempua, are born with nest engineering instinct and pure grit for making 500-600 flights to collect grass strips to build their domains. It’s no surprise that a single nest is known to comprise of 3000-4000 grass strips.
The nests come in [...]
Posted: January 23rd, 2009 under Nature - Bird Watching.
Tags: bird watching, birdlife, Malaysia
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Tanjung Piai for happy endings
Travellers who believe they are intrepid but ignore Tanjung Piai should be flogged.
For their own good.
You may ask “Where in the world is that?”. Well, one only needs to gaze southward to answer that question. If you’re one of those looking for some healing properties of a good weekend vista that’s untouched by conveyor-belt tourism, [...]
Posted: January 14th, 2009 under Malaysia - Maps & travel tutorials.
Tags: bird watching, Malaysia, mangrove, national park, nature, Orang Asli, travel
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Milky Stork - The bald and beautiful
We saw them today!
While trotting around in knee-deep muddy swamp forest this morning near Kuala Gula, we spotted the Milky Storks (Mycteria cinerea) or Burung Botak Upeh, which literally means bald upeh bird, tending their lofty nest. It was 9:30am and the sun has just peeked out of the cloud-dressed horizon.
The morning was beautiful, and [...]
Posted: May 29th, 2008 under Nature - Bird Watching.
Tags: bird watching, birding, kuala gula, mangrove
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