Take The Path Less Ordinary

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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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Overview
Just 80km from tip to toe, Kuala Gula shoreline is textbook Malaysia. This corridor blends seaside flair with inland tropical warmth and its jewels are tucked in unspoilt nooks and crannies not mentioned in any guidebooks or touristy maps. To say the least, it ticks all the right boxes for a dream countryside romp.
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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 [...]

Kingfishers are romantic birds.
The bird is an expert fish hunter (which is obvious) but not many know it scores with the ladies too. For courtship to succeed, a male kingfisher usually offers titbits to the female it has the hots for. Offerings come in the form of fish and insects. And if that’s not [...]