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Friday, October 21, 2011

Red Avadavat - Amandava amandava


This is the best picture of this bird i ever taken. As i don't have big lens so i depending very much on my digiscoping.
Social, living in small flocks. Frequents scrub,grassland,cultivated areas and paddy fields.

Setup: Kowa telescope + 30x wide with Nikon Coolpix P300
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Rufous-collared Kingfisher-Actenoides concretus


An uncommon bird of lowland and hill forests up to 1500mm.
I use to struggle to take a good picture of this bird when i still have my old compact camera Sony W300, but when the new
Nikon Coolpix P300 came out, no problem to digiscope this bird since you can up the ISO to 400.
Setup : Kowa telescope TSN-883 + 30x wide with Nikon coolpix P300
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Red Avadavat - Amandava amandava - 10cm


First noted in 1969 in Kota Kinabalu, my first sight for this bird was 15 or 17 years ago near the KKIA.
Now small population still around in Kota Kinabalu as a few of my birding buddy and photographers friends ever took picture of this little red munia.
Setup: Kowa telescope TSN-883 with 30x + Nikon Coolpix P300
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Sunday, October 2, 2011

Whiskered Treeswift - Hemiprocne comata


A common resident throughout Borneo.Normaly on the open areas in primary ans secondry lowland dipterocarp and kerangas forest.
Setup: Kowa telescope TSN-883 with 30x eyepiece + Sony DSC W300
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Storm's Stork - Ciconia stormi - 120cm

Uncommon local lowland resident throughout Borneo, Sabah is the stronghold for this Endangered species
Setup: Kowa telescope TSN-883 with 30x eyepiece and with Nikon Coolpix P300
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Whitehead's Spiderhunter - Arachnothera juliae


Uncommon endemic resident at Kinabalu park and some part of Sarawak at Dulit Range and at Kayan Mentarang in N.Borneo
Setup: Kowa telescope TSN-883 with 30x eyepiece and with Nikon Coolpix P300






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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker - Dendrocopos moluccensis 13cm


One of the common resident throughout chiefly in coastal areas and offshore islands
Setup: Kowa telescope TSN-883 with 20-60 eyepiece and Nikon coolpix P300
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Snowy-browed Flycatcher - Ficedula hyperythra - 11-13cm


Common resident on the mountain of Sabah, E.Sarawak and E.Kalimantan
Setup: Kowa telescope TSN-883 with 30x eyepiece and Nikon coolpix P300
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