Tanjung Aru Beach Area

Birds seen:

1 . Blue-naped Parrot
2 . White-breasted Woodswallow
3 . Crested Myna
4 . Hill Myna
5 . Oriental Honey-Buzzard ( Dark morp)
6 . Asian Koel
7 . Spotted Dove
8 . Zebra Dove
9 . Yellow-vented Bulbul
10 . Pied Fantail
11 . Common iora
12 . Pied Triller
13 . Collared Kingfisher
14 . Common Kingfisher
14 . Dusky Munia
15 . Black headed Munia
16 . Ashy Tailorbid
17 . Plain-throated Sunbird
18 . Olive-backed Sunbird
19 . Eastern Crimson Sunbird
20 . Asian Glossy Starling
21 . Great crested Tern
22 . Whiskered Tern
23 . Great Egret
24 . Little Egret
25 . Chinese Egret
26 . Reef Egret
27 . Rufous Night Heron
28 . Striated Heron
29 . Common sandpiper
30 . Little swift
31 . Asian Palm swift
32 . Glossy swiftlet
33 . Java Sparrow
34 . Tree Sparrow

RUFOUS NIGHT-HERON

THIS PICTURE RECENTLY TAKEN FROM TANJUNG ARU BEACH AREA AGAIN. THIS BIRD MIGHT BE STARTING TO INVADE WEST COAST AREA ALREADY. SOMETIME THEY ARE AROUND LIKAS LAGOON LATE IN THE AFTERNOON OR SLIGHTLY BEFORE DARK TO FEED.

ORIENTAL HONEY-BUZZARD (Dark Morph)

Recently seen at the Tanjung Aru Beach area. I took this picture while the bird being attack by White-breasted Woodswallow.
Probably this is the first record of this bird migrate to borneo. I not really sure how long this bird going to stay here.

This is a digiscoped picture