In an earlier post GS Soh described his encounter with a Sooty-headed Bulbul (Pycnonotus aurigaster) and a Yellow-vented Bulbul (P. goiavier) pairing up. Lee Tiah Khee completes the story here […]
GS Soh was observing a pair of bulbuls – a Sooty-headed (Pycnonotus aurigaster) (below, on the left) and a Yellow-vented (P. goiavier) (below, on the right). The calls of the […]
“The Black-Capped White-eye, a commonly found montane bird in Sabah’s Kinabalu Park, East Malaysia, is a highly active bird that moves around in flocks of ten to twenty birds or […]
Seow Boon Eu from Penang, Malaysia, photographed a juvenile Banded Bay Cuckoo (Cacomantis sonneratii) being fed by a Common Iora (Aegithina tiphia). Obviously the iora is the foster parent of […]
“On July 28th, 2009, while conducting a bird survey at Pulau Tekong, I heard the insistent, begging calls of a young bird. Moving closer, I spotted a medium-sized, juvenile cuckoo […]
Adrian Lim a.k.a. wmw998 photographed a Spectacled Spiderhunter (Arachnothera flavigaster) visiting the flowers of the African tulip (Spathodea campanulata) to feed on the nectar (above). Along came a Yellow-eared Spiderhunter […]
Samson Tan earlier documented a pair of White-bellied Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster) nesting high up a communication tower. The two adults were ever vigilant as there was a chick in […]
This is Irfan Choo’s second documentation a sand-plover preying on another type of polychaete worms. The plover was tentatively identified as Greater Sand-plover (Charadrius leschenaultii), although it may well be […]
The dramatic shot of a pair of crows mobbing a raptor was photographed by Mike Tan a.k.a woof in April 2009. According to KC Tsang, the raptor looks like a […]
Chong Yih Yeong documented a rare moment of a Brown-throated Sunbird (Anthreptes malacensis) mobbing an adult Blue-tailed Bee-eaters (Merops philippinus) perching on a branch. The sunbird attacked the bee-eater two […]
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