Birds from outside the Cave

Just drop by for 2hrs to look see look see, so here's the result.

Blue Whistling thrush (a escaped bird? work of poacher again [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] )
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Blue Rock Thrush (a smart bird that's know to used shade)
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Java Sparrow (still no luck on clean perch)
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So many poacher ka...... do you think possible help to remove it ?

nelson khor wrote:So many poacher ka...... do you think possible help to remove it ?

possible if used a mist net but don't know it will causes after effect? become more skittish

what is their diet? if they feed on seeds, can mix the seeds with brandy - they will drunk. can catch them using bare hands only... my elder brother always do this trick for catching spotted dove.. ekekekek

If these shots were taken in Kek Lok Tong, then I believe I have come across that son of a bi*** poacher who did that to the WT. If I see him catching bird next time, I will not hesitate to stop him, even if it means having to fight him. A**ho##!

wahoo wrote:what is their diet? if they feed on seeds, can mix the seeds with brandy - they will drunk. can catch them using bare hands only... my elder brother always do this trick for catching spotted dove.. ekekekek

yes! they eat fruits.

wmw998 wrote:If these shots were taken in Kek Lok Tong, then I believe I have come across that son of a bi*** poacher who did that to the WT. If I see him catching bird next time, I will not hesitate to stop him, even if it means having to fight him. A**ho##!

Yeap adrian! was taken at KLT. stop by this morning before going for a site check.

this place i want to long time, but still no time yet ah!!
i like the first two shots!

thx bro. another shot but just missed the tail. sigh!

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JKC, your Whistling Thrush is a Blue Whistling Thrush, the Malayan Whistling thrush is so far a highland specialty, so far, only one spot, Fraser's Hill remained to have sightings until recently.

You had the juvenile, was so furious someone attempted to catch it? The species is quite uncommon throughout the country but locally fairly common in these parts of Ipoh, best found in Kek Look Tong area.

jytou wrote:JKC, your Whistling Thrush is a Blue Whistling Thrush, the Malayan Whistling thrush is so far a highland specialty, so far, only one spot, Fraser's Hill remained to have sightings until recently.

You had the juvenile, was so furious someone attempted to catch it? The species is quite uncommon throughout the country but locally fairly common in these parts of Ipoh, best found in Kek Look Tong area.

thanks for confirming the ID, these juvy sure are huge and his call are super loud. his size are around <300mm.

I love the Javan

JKC wrote:

jytou wrote:JKC, your Whistling Thrush is a Blue Whistling Thrush, the Malayan Whistling thrush is so far a highland specialty, so far, only one spot, Fraser's Hill remained to have sightings until recently.

You had the juvenile, was so furious someone attempted to catch it? The species is quite uncommon throughout the country but locally fairly common in these parts of Ipoh, best found in Kek Look Tong area.

thanks for confirming the ID, these juvy sure are huge and his call are super loud. his size are around <300mm.

welcome.... these are the 3 stars of Kek Look Tong, probably the easiest place to find the 3 species...... my neighbourhood has the Java sparrows as well, but smaller numbers, and just recently, I also discovered the Blue Rock Thrush, so next, I need to look for this Blue Whistling Thrush....

funny thing is why this bird doesn't have the spotted dots on the body?

JKC wrote:funny thing is why this bird doesn't have the spotted dots on the body?

If for male bird, breeding is full blue, non-breeding is spotted.

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JKC wrote:funny thing is why this bird doesn't have the spotted dots on the body?

If for male bird, breeding is full blue, non-breeding is spotted.

I just have a look in the Craig Robson book. the bird I got sure looks like a juvy and more like a female juvy which has less blue and dots. but nevertheless still a lifer to me.

Haha, congrats to your new catch man...lifers continues....

JKC wrote:funny thing is why this bird doesn't have the spotted dots on the body?

what do you mean by that? are you referring to Blue Rock or Whistling Thrush? The one that is spotted is female Rock Thrush, like the one you got, a female..... they are placed in same page in robson's, 2000 version, so maybe you are looking at the wrong species?

jytou wrote:what do you mean by that? are you referring to Blue Rock or Whistling Thrush? The one that is spotted is female Rock Thrush, like the one you got, a female..... they are placed in same page in robson's, 2000 version, so maybe you are looking at the wrong species?

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] spotted as shown in all these photos. anyway I read the page 182, but I think I read the wrong columm. hahaha

Mr No Good wrote:Haha, congrats to your new catch man...lifers continues....

better than nothing lor. so dry down here. hahaaa

JKC wrote:

jytou wrote:what do you mean by that? are you referring to Blue Rock or Whistling Thrush? The one that is spotted is female Rock Thrush, like the one you got, a female..... they are placed in same page in robson's, 2000 version, so maybe you are looking at the wrong species?

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] spotted as shown in all these photos. anyway I read the page 182, but I think I read the wrong columm. hahaha

hahaha..... dont simply google la.... you found a different subspecies.... that one should occur throughout southern China, the black bill one in Northern South east asia, very spotty, under the right light, our subspecies is one of the dimmest in color, so the blue speckles are not apparently obvious, probably only seeable under very strong sun light coming in in the right angle and you viewing at a right slanting angle? Actually the blue speckles is what gave the bird the name Blue, definitely not named after our subspecies, we have 2 subspecies in Malaysia, one of them restricted to the northwest.....

this bird really like to be under dim area, the location were pretty low light. when using exposure compensate above 2/3 I found is hard to bring out the color and if above 1.1/3 the color might not be natural. anyway thx for the info ya

JKC wrote:this bird really like to be under dim area, the location were pretty low light. when using exposure compensate above 2/3 I found is hard to bring out the color and if above 1.1/3 the color might not be natural. anyway thx for the info ya

and your bird is a juvenile, generally still very brownish in color, and can easily confuse one with the Bornean Whistling Thrush but both of them dont co-occur...... the adults will be darker blue-back, our subspecies dont show much of the bright blue speckles, but do have blue speckled sheens under good light, but the species generally avoids good light......

These poachers are really getting out of hand... We have 2 cars identified as poachers here in Phanti.

Hate them~!

Nice shots... love the Java Sparrow~!

Tough shooting condition.
Too bad we missed each other.

Wonder who released the bird?

Sigh... hopefully someone can help to remove the string... otherwise next time can only see but cannot shoot