Hi Boh Seng! Enjoying your lovely shots. Keep up the good work. Even a small hill like Bukit Kiara can give such diversity....imagine if we protect more of such tracts of land? You have found the treasure troves. Every day can only be a GREAT day...its how you spend it.
For your bee-eaters, there are two species involved, those with a blue throat is Blue-throated Bee-eater, the rest with brown throats are Blue-tailed Bee-eater, as Khong mentioned, there is no White-throated Bee-eaters, your kingfisher species however is White-throated Kingfisher
Some of your unnamed dove/pigeon are the same species with the other names pigeons:
greenish ones are Pink-necked Green Pigeon, small strongly barred are Peaceful Dove while the slightly larger ones that are also brown but with a black hind neck with white spots are Spotted Dove
This one is quite hard to see, an adult Tiger Shrike, we see more juveniles wintering in Malaysia.
The rest of your shrikes, some were juvenile Tiger Shrike, some were Brown Shrikes, Tiger shrikes juvenile is darker color, usually without clear face mask, strongly barred
This one is very interesting!!! Not the other 2 commoner species, I think it is a male Orange-backed Woodpecker, did you get this at Kiara, dont think it was previously in the list!
This is a Olive-wing Bulbul. Notice the light greenish yellow main feathers in the wing! They called that Olive colour
ReplyDeleteMost of the Shrikes further up are Brown Shrike. This one- Notice the barring across the breast? It is a juvenile Tiger Shrike.
ReplyDeleteVery good picture! This is a male - Common Flameback! The wings looks orange-red -Flame. The female has a black-crest.
ReplyDeleteThis is the most common bird in our garden - Yellow-vented Bulbul. Vent incidentally is the anus.
ReplyDeleteso many spesises can get at kiara hills ??
ReplyDeleteso many spesises can get at kiara hills ??
ReplyDeleteThose are great catch you got in Kiara Hills. Many variety.
ReplyDeleteThe many happy hours you've spent rambling on Bukit Kiara have certainly paid off with these great shots.
ReplyDeleteHi Boh Seng! Enjoying your lovely shots. Keep up the good work. Even a small hill like Bukit Kiara can give such diversity....imagine if we protect more of such tracts of land? You have found the treasure troves. Every day can only be a GREAT day...its how you spend it.
ReplyDeleteDear All, Thank you for all encouragement. I have seen many more other beautiful birds. But alas, I was not quick enough to snap them all.
ReplyDeleteAt the first glance, this bird looks strange. Especially the red-eye. carefully looking at it, could be just a common female Magpie-Robin
ReplyDeleteThe head a bit bulged. But I still go for this bird as an Olive-winged Bulbul.
ReplyDeleteThis is a Common Myna. Diagnostic is the yellow skin around the eye.
ReplyDeleteThere is no white-throated. This is a Blue-throated
ReplyDeleteYeah, its a Robin
ReplyDeletePhillipine Glossy Starlings
ReplyDeleteJust simple Spotted Dove
ReplyDeleteThe Bird King strikes again....thanks for the lessons Uncle Khong. So much to learn.
ReplyDeleteThank very much in helping me to identify the birds. I have updated the captions based on your inputs. Looking forward to your invaluable inputs.
ReplyDeletethis is the Asian Paradise Flycatcher female
ReplyDeleteyep, correct, this is a dollarbird
ReplyDeleteyellow-vented bulbul
ReplyDeleteThey should be called Olive-winged Bulbul
ReplyDeleteThese with a black mask over the white face and yellow vents are called Yellow-vented Bulbul, you got a lot of these
ReplyDeleteThis is the Crested Serpent Eagle
ReplyDeleteFor your bee-eaters, there are two species involved, those with a blue throat is Blue-throated Bee-eater, the rest with brown throats are Blue-tailed Bee-eater, as Khong mentioned, there is no White-throated Bee-eaters, your kingfisher species however is White-throated Kingfisher
ReplyDeleteThis is a male Brown-throated Sunbird
ReplyDeleteShould be male Orange-bellied Flowerpecker
ReplyDeleteNot a flowerpecker, but the Common Tailorbird.
ReplyDeleteThese were Greater Racket-tailed Drongo that has temporarily lost their rackets...
ReplyDeleteSome of your unnamed dove/pigeon are the same species with the other names pigeons:
ReplyDeletegreenish ones are Pink-necked Green Pigeon,
small strongly barred are Peaceful Dove
while the slightly larger ones that are also brown but with a black hind neck with white spots are Spotted Dove
This is the Banded Woodpecker, also quite common in Malaysia.
ReplyDeletejuvenile Blue-throated Bee-eater
ReplyDeleteThis one is quite hard to see, an adult Tiger Shrike, we see more juveniles wintering in Malaysia.
ReplyDeleteThe rest of your shrikes, some were juvenile Tiger Shrike, some were Brown Shrikes, Tiger shrikes juvenile is darker color, usually without clear face mask, strongly barred
This is a Forest Wagtail, actually not an easy bird to spot, nice job, did you get this at Kiara? I did not recall seeing it in the Kiara list.
ReplyDeleteolive-winged bulbul
ReplyDeleteyellow-vented bulbul
ReplyDeleteYes, these are Black-naped Orioles.
ReplyDeletejuvenile Philippine Glossy Starlings (aka Asian Glossy Starlings)
ReplyDeleteThis one is very interesting!!! Not the other 2 commoner species, I think it is a male Orange-backed Woodpecker, did you get this at Kiara, dont think it was previously in the list!
ReplyDeleteThis is probably the female Orange-backed Woodpecker.
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