LUTFIALI BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY: August 2014

I am pleased to announce that i have reached my target of the first 100 bird species photographed as i mentioned in my previous post " Milestone Achieved" on 1 August 2014. Even though the number 100 is small compared to the total bird species in the whole of Malaysia which is somewhere near 800 species, it still feels great to achieve my personal target of the first 100 species considering that i am not a full time birder. At least i have recorded one eighth of the whole population and i still have not visited the many national parks in the Peninsular of Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak.

So the number can only go upward and i am looking forward to the challenge. The only thing i need now is more free time which is not easy to come by. It is not as easy as some people think as there are a lot of places which i visited are not as productive as i thought. It takes a lot of energy and time to search, detect and record all the species that i want and it also requires a lot of patience and luck to come across new species which i have not seen before. The actual species that i have encountered are a lot more but because i did not have just enough time to photograph some of them or the quality of the shots are so poor due to the poor lighting, so i just excluded them from the list.

So here is the list of the first 100 species of wild birds photographed by me and the locations that i photographed them for your reference:

RECORDED BIRD SPECIES & LOCATIONS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

SPECIES LOCATIONS

1. Asian Glossy Starling Kuala Lumpur
2. Asian Open-bill Stork Rawang Selangor

3. Bronze Drongo Fraser Hill

4. Black-naped Oriole Penang Island

5. Banded Woodpecker FRIM

6. Black-winged Stilt Perlis

7. Brahminy Kite Perlis

8. Black-shouldered Kite Perlis

9. Black-thighed Falcon FRIM

10. Blyth's Hawk-Eagle Cameron Highland

11. Black-winged Flycatcher-Shrike Cameron Highland

12. Black-throated Sunbird Fraser Hill

13. Blue-tailed Bee-Eater Sepang Goldcoast
14. Blue-throated Bee-Eater Sepang Goldcoast

15. Blue Nuthatch Cameron Highland

16. Brown Shrike Perlis

17. Black-crowned Night Heron                                                          Kuala Lumpur
18. Black-hooded Oriole    FRIM
19. Brown-throated Sunbird    Perlis
20. Black Magpie     Fraser Hill
21. Black-browed Barbet     Fraser Hill
22. Black Swan    Berjaya Hill Pahang
23. Brown Barbet     Berjaya Hill Pahang

24. Collared Kingfisher Sepang Goldcoast

25. Changeable Hawk-Eagle Perlis

26. Crimson-breasted Oriole Fraser Hill

27. Common Myna FRIM

28. Common Sandpiper Sepang

29. Chestnut-breasted Malkoha                                                                 FRIM
30. Common Iora                                                                                 Perlis
31. Chinese Pond Heron                                                                     Perlis
32. Common Crow    Kuala Lumpur
33. Eurasian Tree Sparrow                                                                 Perlis

34. Everett’s White-eye Fraser Hill

35. Emerald Dove Fraser Hill
36. Eastern Cattle Egret Rawang Selangor

37. Fire-breasted Flowerpecker Fraser Hill

38. Fire-tufted Barbet Fraser Hill

39. Greater Coucal Perlis

40. Glossy Swiftlet Perlis

41. Grey Wagtail Fraser Hill

42. Grey-chinned Minivet Fraser Hill

43. Green Iora Fraser Hill

44. Greater racket-tailed Drongo Fraser Hill

45. Great Egret Perlis

46. Golden Leaf Babbler Fraser Hill
47. Grey-breasted Spiderhunter Fraser Hill

48. Javan Myna FRIM

49. Javan Cuckoo-shrike Fraser Hill

50. Little Cuckoo-dove Fraser Hill

51. Long-tailed Sibia Fraser Hill

52. Large Niltava Fraser Hill

53. Little-pied Flycatcher Fraser Hill

54. Lesser yellow-naped Woodpecker Fraser Hill

55. Little Heron Kuala Lumpur

56. Little Tern Perlis
57. Little Egret Perlis

58. Mountain Green Magpie Fraser Hill

59. Mountain Fulvetta Fraser Hill

60. Mountain Bulbul Fraser Hill

61. Malaysian Laughing-thrush Fraser Hill

62. Mountain Imperial Pigeon Fraser's Hill

63. Malayan Partridge Fraser Hill
64. Mute Swan Berjaya Hill Pahang

65. Northern white-crowned Forktail Fraser Hill

66. Orange-bellied Leaf Bird Fraser Hill

67. Olive-back Sunbird Penang Island
68. Olive-winged Bulbul Perlis

69. Oriental Magpie Robin FRIM

70. Ochraceous Bulbul Cameron Highland

71. Paddyfield Pipit Perlis

72. Pacific Swallow Fraser Hill

73. Pink-necked green-pigeon Kuala Lumpur
74. Purple Heron Rawang Selangor

75. Red-wattled Lapwing Perlis

76. Red-eyed Bulbul FRIM

77. Rock Pigeon Kuala Lumpur
78. Red & Black Broadbill FRIM
79. Rufous-bellied Swallow Perlis

80. Spotted Dove Kuala Lumpur

81. Sunda Bush Warbler Fraser Hill

82. Sultan Tit Fraser Hill

83. Streaked Spiderhunter Fraser Hill

84. Silver-eared Mesia Fraser Hill

85. Spectacled Laughing-thrush Fraser Hill
86. Spectacled Bulbul FRIM
87. Stripe-throated Bulbul FRIM

88. Scally-breasted Munia                                                                Perlis
89. Stock-billed Kingfisher    Perlis
90. Siver-breasted Broadbill                                                             Berjaya Hill Pahang

91. Tiger Shrike Fraser Hill

92. Yellow-vented Bulbul Fraser Hill

93. Yellow-rumped Flycatcher Fraser Hill
94. Yellow-bellied Prinia Perlis

95. White-throated Kingfisher Sepang Goldcoast

96. White-bellied Sea Eagle Perlis

97. White-browed Shrike-Babbler Fraser Hill

98. White-throated Fantail Fraser Hill
99. Whiskered Tree Swift Berjaya Hill Pahang
100. White-rumped Munia Berjaya Hill Pahang

101. White-breasted Waterhen Sepang Goldcoast
102. Zebra Dove Kuala Lumpur
103. Green-billed Malkoha Fraser's Hill
104. Baya Weaver Kedah

Now that i have achieved my first 100 species i hereby strive to add another 50 species to the list. I think the challenge to add another 50 species will be far greater than before as i need to go to places i have never been before deep into the jungle, national parks etc. which takes time, effort and money.

Till next time, happy birding.

It has been almost three months since my last post in May. This is partly due to my busy work schedule, partly to fatigue and partly due to the injury i got when i fell by the roadside. I could not walk properly for a month because my ankle was swollen.

Last week was the "balik kampung"(yearly exodus to go back home for Eid celebration) 485km up North to Kangar, Perlis. It was a nightmare as a normal drive of 5-6 hours turned into a nightmare 19 hours drive due the traffic jam caused by the majority of Kuala Lumpur residents decided to leave the city at the same time! It was estimated around 1.6 million vehicles leaving Kuala Lumpur on that Saturday.

Since i went through hell just to reach Kangar, i decided to use the few days there to do some birding whenever the opportunities presented itself. Fortunately, it was fruiting season so there were plenty of birds flying around my father in-law's house. I managed to shoot a few species for your viewing below.