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kingfisher" /><category term="hose's broadbill" /><category term="great knot" /><category term="In Flight" /><category term="banded woodpecker" /><category term="scaly-breasted munia" /><category term="Nikon Photography Workshop" /><category term="black-collared starling" /><category term="Wallace's Hawk Eagle" /><category term="Nikon and Borneo Bird Festival Roadshow 2010" /><category term="Crimson Sunbird" /><category term="chinese egret" /><title>Birders Of Sabah Borneo Island</title><subtitle type="html" /><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://horukuru.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://horukuru.blogspot.com/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8798636517925217373/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false&amp;v=2" /><author><name>Azahari Reyes @ Jason a.k.a 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gd:etag="W/&quot;C0UGSX4_eip7ImA9WhRUFE0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798636517925217373.post-4502358914527606332</id><published>2012-01-24T18:33:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T18:33:48.042+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-24T18:33:48.042+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="White-browed Crake" /><title>White-browed Crake (Porzana cinerea)</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;23rd January 2012&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Crakes&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Rails&lt;/span&gt; is considered uncommon to rare in my place even the resident &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Crake&lt;/span&gt; such as &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Slaty-legged Crake&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;White-browed Crake&lt;/span&gt;. Yesterday afternoon went to Ranganan - Timbuk wetland and upon arrival, &lt;a href="http://amazingborneo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Joe&lt;/a&gt; showed me his shot of the &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;White-browed Crake&lt;/span&gt; and it was quite close too !&lt;br /&gt;
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There were few &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Great&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Little Egret&lt;/span&gt;, lone &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Grey Heron&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Black-winged Stilt&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Common Moorhen&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Common Kingfisher&lt;/span&gt;. A flock of &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Pink-necked Green Pigeon&lt;/span&gt; was busy feeding on a fruiting tree, a bit unfortunate for good pictures because it was a bit distance. The strange things is, there were no single &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Wandering Whistling Duck&lt;/span&gt; and on my last visit in December 2011, there were more than 100 of them. Not sure what happened ...&lt;br /&gt;
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Digiscoped with Nikon Fieldscope EDG85 via FSA-L2 DSLR Photo Adapter on Nikon D300s&lt;br /&gt;
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500mm ~ cropped 33% edited with Nikon Capture NX2&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The baby ! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Never had the opportunity to get quite close with this bird !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Last photo before they walked back behind the reeds ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Happy birding !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8798636517925217373-4502358914527606332?l=horukuru.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Invited by &lt;a href="http://www.wildlife.sabah.gov.my/" target="_blank"&gt;Sabah Wildlife Department&lt;/a&gt; and jointly organized by &lt;a href="http://www.mpoc.org.my/" target="_blank"&gt;Malaysian Palm Oil Council&lt;/a&gt; (MPOC)to attend the by Sabah Wildlife Conservation Colloquium 2012 was held at &lt;a href="http://www.starwoodhotels.com/lemeridien/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1935" target="_blank"&gt;Le Meridian Hotel&lt;/a&gt; in Kota Kinabalu to discussed 3 Action Plans namely the &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Orang Utan&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Bornean Pygmy Elephant&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Bornean Rhinoceros&lt;/span&gt; in order to save this species from extinction.&lt;br /&gt;
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There is a hope ... &lt;br /&gt;
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More info from the links below :&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.newsabahtimes.com.my/nstweb/fullstory/55113" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.newsabahtimes.com.my/nstweb/fullstory/55113&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theborneopost.com/2012/01/09/much-to-be-done-for-wildlife-conservation-director/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.theborneopost.com/2012/01/09/much-to-be-done-for-wildlife-conservation-director/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=80316" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=80316&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://kgsilou.blogspot.com/2012/01/sabah-not-much-land-left.html" target="_blank"&gt;http://kgsilou.blogspot.com/2012/01/sabah-not-much-land-left.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1559620817"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1559620818"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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Some of the pictures taken during the 2 days event with Nikon D300s and 28mm 2.8 lens&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Areden, Ryan and Edmundo representing &lt;a href="http://www.borneonaturetours.com/www/brl_default.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Borneo Rainforest Lodge&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Wildlife photograper &lt;a href="http://www.cedeprudente.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Cede Prudente&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=730726437" target="_blank"&gt;Wendy Hutton&lt;/a&gt;, author for many books regarding Sabah &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Peter from Sabah Wildlife Department with John Prudente from &lt;a href="http://borneogeographic.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Borneo Geographi&lt;/a&gt;c &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Lawrance, John Nair, Brandon Miles and Clay busy discussing something ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mark representing &lt;a href="http://www.apemalaysia.com/" target="_blank"&gt;APE&lt;/a&gt; and Mark from &lt;a href="http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/biosi/facilities/danaugirangfieldcentre/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;Danau Girang Field Centre&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Teles with the &lt;a href="http://www.ceopalmoil.com/" target="_blank"&gt;CEO's Blog&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Protected species in Sabah by Wildlife department &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Providing latest info in regards with Borneo Sunbear and other conservation project by &lt;a href="http://www.borneotrust.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Borneo Conservation Trust &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Hope to see you all on the next Colloquium !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8798636517925217373-6252237900970594837?l=horukuru.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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First posting of the year with &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Common Kestrel&lt;/span&gt;, uncommon winter visitor in my place mostly seen at Tempasuk and Penampang paddy field, this time, fellow birder, Wan Iskandar saw it at Alam Mesra residential area and seen few times on top of the street light scanning for its prey.&lt;br /&gt;
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According from Quentin Philipps's book, there were 6 &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Falco&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/i&gt;species migrating in Borneo and only 1 being a resident the &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Peregrine Falcon&lt;/span&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Falco peregrinus ernesti.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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Will try to get better pictures soon with the gang depending with the weather condition ...&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.nikon.com/products/sportoptics/edg/top/index.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Digiscoped with Nikon Fieldscope EDG85&lt;/a&gt; via FSA-L2 DSLR Photo Adapter via Nikon D300s&lt;br /&gt;
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Some of my pictures has been published by &lt;a href="http://www.nikon.com/products/sportoptics/index.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Nikon Vision Japan&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;span style="color: yellow;"&gt;Nikon EDG&lt;/span&gt; microsite : &lt;a href="http://www.nikon.com/products/sportoptics/edg/top/index.htm" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.nikon.com/products/sportoptics/edg/top/index.htm&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Digiscoping Gallery&lt;/span&gt;. This is one of my best achievement&amp;nbsp; as a bird guide and photographer. Thanks for the supports from my family, best friends and Tee from &lt;a href="http://www.nikon.com.my/" style="color: yellow;" target="_blank"&gt;Nikon Malaysia&lt;/a&gt; with Irene from &lt;a href="http://sandakanfotoblog.blogspot.com/" style="color: orange;" target="_blank"&gt;Sandakan Foto&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.nikon.com/products/sportoptics/edg/top/index.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Digiscoped with Nikon Fieldscope EDG85&lt;/a&gt; via FSA-L2 DSLR Photo Adapter on Nikon D300s edited with Nikon Capture NX2&lt;br /&gt;
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I will be testing the new &lt;span style="color: yellow;"&gt;Nikon Fieldscope EDG85 VR&lt;/span&gt; soon and hopefully with &lt;a href="http://www.nikon.com.my/en_MY/products.page?CategoryID=gs6rtnto" style="color: yellow;" target="_blank"&gt;Nikon V1&lt;/a&gt; mirrorless camera and do not forget to check my upcoming &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Birding &amp;amp; Digiscoping Workshop&lt;/span&gt; for January 2012 at &lt;a href="http://horukuru.blogspot.com/2011/12/birding-digiscoping-workshop-2012.html" target="_blank"&gt;http://horukuru.blogspot.com/2011/12/birding-digiscoping-workshop-2012.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Happy birding and thanks for everyone who followed and enjoyed my blog for year 2011. See you in 2012 !&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8798636517925217373-3267051024183227062?l=horukuru.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Common winter visitor to Kota Kinabalu city mostly around Tg. Aru water village opposite Sutera Harbour golf course and fish market. The number estimated for this season was 20 and it mixed up together with &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Whiskered Tern&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Great Egret&lt;/span&gt; while feeding.&lt;br /&gt;
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I will be conducting field trips at Kinabatangan River from January until early April 2012 depending with booking with &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Minimum of 6 persons&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Maximum is 12 persons&lt;/span&gt; per trip. The main reason why I chose Kinabatangan River because of the combination between birds and mammals plus great scenery along the river especially at Menanggul tributary.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Bird guide&lt;/span&gt; :&lt;br /&gt;
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Azahari Reyes @ Jason aka horukuru's profile :&lt;br /&gt;
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Working as a bird guide based in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah since 2006 with clients mostly from UK and Japan. An invited spoke person for &lt;span style="color: yellow;"&gt;Nikon EDG&lt;/span&gt; products under &lt;span style="color: yellow;"&gt;Nikon Malaysia&lt;/span&gt; and been involved in various bird surveys with Sabah Forestry Department and photography workshops mainly by &lt;span style="color: yellow;"&gt;Nikon Malaysia&lt;/span&gt; and Sabah Park.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pictures has been published in Sepilok Bird Book, &lt;span style="color: yellow;"&gt;Nikon Vision Japan&lt;/span&gt; website and promotional materials by Sabah Tourism Board mostly related with bird watching activities. In the process of publishing photographic bird book and coming up with photo exhibitions in Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan.&lt;br /&gt;
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Been to Philippines, Indonesia and England as an exhibitor for the bird festivals promoting birding market for Sabah under Sabah Tourism Board at the same time, took the opportunity to know more about birds on those places.&lt;br /&gt;
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Member of &lt;span style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;Borneo 400 Club&lt;/span&gt; and specialized in Digiscoping ~ Capturing pictures through scope with DSLR and compact camera. &lt;br /&gt;
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Preferred &lt;span style="color: yellow;"&gt;Nikon&lt;/span&gt; equipments for birding and photography and Apple for pictures editing.&lt;br /&gt;
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References :&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: yellow;"&gt;Nikon Vision Japan EDG&lt;/span&gt; website : &lt;a href="http://www.nikon.com/products/sportoptics/edg/top/index.htm"&gt;http://www.nikon.com/products/sportoptics/edg/top/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Borneo 400 Club website : &lt;a href="http://borneobirds.com/borneo400"&gt;http://borneobirds.com/borneo400&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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Below is the program for &lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;3 Days 2 Nights&lt;/span&gt; : &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;EX - SUKAU&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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DAY 1 :&lt;br /&gt;
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1200.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; : Arrival of participants at &lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt;Sukau Greenview Bed&lt;/span&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt;Breakfast&lt;/span&gt; for registration and lunch.&lt;br /&gt;
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1400 - 1530&amp;nbsp; : Basic Birdwatching covering in identification, sounds, behavior and usage of equipments; &lt;span style="color: yellow;"&gt;Binocular&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: yellow;"&gt;Fieldscope&lt;/span&gt; subjects.&lt;br /&gt;
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1530 - 1800. : Cruising along Menanggul River for &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Black Hornbill&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Scarlet-rumped Trogon&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Blue-eared Kingfisher&lt;/span&gt; and many more. Mammals such as &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Proboscis Monkey&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Orang Utan&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Long-tailed Macaque&lt;/span&gt; provides opportunity for pictures too.&lt;br /&gt;
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1830 - 1930&amp;nbsp; : Dinner&lt;br /&gt;
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1930 - 2100. : Check list of birds and mammals. End of Day 1. (Lunch and Dinner)&lt;br /&gt;
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DAY 2&lt;br /&gt;
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0630 - 0900&amp;nbsp; : Morning cruise for more birds and wildlife. Back to the lodge for breakfast.&lt;br /&gt;
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1000 - 1200&amp;nbsp; : Digiscoping and Bird Photograph, Bird Recording and birding / photography ethics on the field. &lt;br /&gt;
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1230&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; : Lunch.&lt;br /&gt;
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1530 - 1800 : Cruising along Menanggul River for &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Bornean Ground Cuckoo&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Lesser Fish Eagle&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Black-naped Monarch&lt;/span&gt; and many more. Mammals such as &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Bornean Pygmy Elephant&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Silver Leaf Monkey&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Monitor Lizard&lt;/span&gt; provides opportunity for pictures too.&lt;br /&gt;
1830 - 1930&amp;nbsp; : Dinner&lt;br /&gt;
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1930 - 2030&amp;nbsp; : Night cruise for nocturnal animals such as &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Leopard Cat&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Malay Civets&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Buffy Fish Owl&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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2045 - 2145&amp;nbsp; : Check list of birds and mammals. End of Day 2. (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner)&lt;br /&gt;
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DAY 3&lt;br /&gt;
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0630 - 0900&amp;nbsp; : Morning cruise for birds and wildlife. Back to the lodge for breakfast.&lt;br /&gt;
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0930 - 1030&amp;nbsp; : Check list of birds and mammals. &lt;br /&gt;
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1130 - 1230&amp;nbsp; : Check out and end of workshop. (Breakfast)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Things to bring&lt;/span&gt; :&lt;br /&gt;
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1. Binocular with minimum configuration of 7x42, 8x32, 8x36, 8x42, 10x32 or 10x42 to maximized viewing of birds and wildlife. Compact binocular such as 8x25 and 10x25 are not recommended. Binocular for rental during the river cruise is provided for RM 10 per cruise.&lt;br /&gt;
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2. DSLR and compact camera with zoom or telephoto lens; 70-200mm, 70-300mm, 300mm and above. Compact camera will be use for demo on Digiscoping. If none of the above, binocular is fine.&lt;br /&gt;
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3. Flash and torch lights for night cruise. Subject to weather condition.&lt;br /&gt;
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4. Poncho or raincoat with hat or cap, sun lotion and sunglass for protection while cruising on the boat. Do not forget to bring insect repellent for mosquitos etc.&lt;br /&gt;
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5. Proper walking shoes and sandall with long shirts and pants.&lt;br /&gt;
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6. Laptop etc&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;What is included&lt;/span&gt; :&lt;br /&gt;
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1. 6 private river cruises at Menanggul river with bird guide and maximum of 8 persons for each boat.&lt;br /&gt;
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2. All meals at &lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt;Sukau Greenview Bed&lt;/span&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt;Breakfast&lt;/span&gt; with free flow of coffee and tea.&lt;br /&gt;
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3. Fan room based on Twin Sharing for 2 persons at &lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt;Sukau Greenview Bed&lt;/span&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt;Breakfast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;What is not included&lt;/span&gt; :&lt;br /&gt;
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1. Travel insurance&lt;br /&gt;
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2. Items of personal nature&lt;br /&gt;
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3. Alcohol and soft drinks&lt;br /&gt;
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4. Transportation from place of origin to &lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt;Sukau Greenview Bed &amp;amp; Breakfast&lt;/span&gt; and back&lt;br /&gt;
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For more info about &lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt;Sukau Greenview Bed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt;Breakfast click&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g298306-d1893195-Reviews-Sukau_Greenview_Bed_Breakfast-Sabah.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Hope to see you there !&lt;br /&gt;
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A short visit to Ranganan - Timbuk wetland in Tuaran where it hosted the vagrant &lt;a href="http://horukuru.blogspot.com/2011/12/pied-avocet-recurvirosta-avosetta.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Pied Avocet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 2 weeks ago, I got this shots of fighting &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Wood Sandpiper&lt;/span&gt;. Only few frames were in focus because I was shooting from the car and a bit higher on the ground. Plus their actions was so quick !&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.nikon.com/products/sportoptics/edg/index.htm"&gt;Digiscoped with Nikon Fieldscope EDG85&lt;/a&gt; via Nikon FSA-L2 DSLR Photo Adapter on Nikon D300s&lt;br /&gt;
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Saw this in Corby, England last year and a vagrant in my place and seen once at Pulau Tiga by Chris Kehoe. It was seen at Penampang paddy field by CK Leong in the morning before I arrived for the &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Blue-tailed Bee Eater&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
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Some of my friends were so lucky to see this few times at the same place with perfect pictures hahaha and I managed only a record shot despite searching for it the last few days in rain and shine !&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The flight pattern of this bird resembled like a &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Cuckoo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A the mountain now be back tomorrow afternoon. Will try again for the &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Starling&lt;/span&gt; ...&lt;br /&gt;
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Another vagrant appeared at Penampang paddy field after &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Pied Avocet&lt;/span&gt; in Tuaran. It was by coincidence were looking for the &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Blue-tailed Bee Eater&lt;/span&gt; seen by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wipudin/"&gt;Winston&lt;/a&gt; the day before, failed to locate the &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Bee Eater&lt;/span&gt;, this pretty looking juvenile as seen hoping on the ground looking for food at the &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Lady's Finger Ocra&lt;/span&gt; orchard. &lt;br /&gt;
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Common winter visitor to Hong Kong and similar fate like the &lt;a href="http://horukuru.blogspot.com/2011/12/pied-avocet-recurvirosta-avosetta.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Pied Avocet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Check my posting below. 1st record for Sabah and probably Borneo :)&lt;br /&gt;
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Upon seeing this bird being posted at &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000429159986&amp;amp;ref=ts"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;, I rushed to the site at Mengkabong village, Tuaran and saw single bird busy feeding together with &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Wood Sandpiper&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Wandering Whistling Duck&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Common Moorhen&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The next few days, it became a hit among birders and photographers as far as Sandakan plus few visiting birders from Japan and Canada. A first record for Sabah, it was out of its range as the nearest wintering ground for this bird is at Hong Kong.&lt;br /&gt;
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Thanks to &lt;a href="http://borneobirdphotography.com/"&gt;Jiun Loong Lai&lt;/a&gt; for finding this mega bird and with the increasing numbers of birders cum digiscopers/photographers, Sabah is getting more and more interesting sighting of rare birds especially during the migratory season from September - April compared with few years ago where it was only a handful of enthusiasts.&lt;br /&gt;
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The best lifer for this year !&lt;br /&gt;
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My best friend &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/profile.php?id=1356681093"&gt;Roy&lt;/a&gt; saw it at Penampang paddy field last Sunday morning causing another excitement among the gang and they rushed to the site within 1 hour but I couldn't make it that day. Met with &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronpudin/"&gt;Ron&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/profile.php?id=1356681093"&gt;Roy&lt;/a&gt; yesterday at the same site and saw this pretty looking vagrant for North Borneo hunting for small shells at the paddy field. My last sighting was in Tuaran, 30th November 2007 together with Karim heheh. Refer to this post&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://horukuru.blogspot.com/search/label/Grey-headed%20Lapwing"&gt;http://horukuru.blogspot.com/search/label/Grey-headed%20Lapwing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Another lifer and vagrant found at Penampang paddy field while searching for the &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Northern Shoveler&lt;/span&gt; with &lt;a href="http://amazingborneo.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jordan&lt;/a&gt; recently. There were 2 birds flying around mixing with &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Pacific&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Barn Swallow&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Glossy&lt;/span&gt; with &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Nest-Swiftlet sp&lt;/span&gt;. The obvious rump colour caught my attention while looking at the &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Nest-Swiftlet sp.&lt;/span&gt; in flight which looked like the &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Himalayan Swift&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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One of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Sunda_Islands"&gt;Greater Sunda&lt;/a&gt; endemic found at high elevation and at North Borneo, it is mainly found above 1600mm from sea level. One of the best place to see them at Timpohon Gate, the starting point for climbers at Mt. Kinabalu.&lt;br /&gt;
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After a week recovering from car accident two Saturday ago causing deep cut on my right palm, went to Tanjung Aru beach with &lt;a href="http://amazingborneo.blogspot.com/"&gt;Joe&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000927251883"&gt;Alven&lt;/a&gt; this afternoon for the &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Brown Shrike&lt;/span&gt; which was seen by others last weekends. &lt;br /&gt;
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The feeling was awesome looking at this common winter visitors from North Asia through the viewfinder especially when you were shooting with your best friends side by side hahaha. I will be back again hopefully tomorrow to get more images with videos if possible.&lt;br /&gt;
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Happy birding and thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000927251883"&gt;Alven&lt;/a&gt; for pointing out the exact location of this beauty !&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8798636517925217373-4556536904934703659?l=horukuru.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Had a great time birding and watching wildlife for a week with Andrew and Anthousa, both hailed from Canada, they used this opportunity on their way back to their hometown to enjoy some of the best spots in Asia for holidays after spending 2 and a half years studying in Australia.&lt;br /&gt;
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A group of &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Bornean Pygmy Elephant&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Storm's Stork&lt;/span&gt; seen twice in flight, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Bornean Bristlehead&lt;/span&gt; at Sepilok and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Fruithunter&lt;/span&gt; were some of the highlight seen recently and a total of 140 birds recorded on this trip despite the rain occurred in the morning and afternoon. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;One of my favorite bird !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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It was a huge success with more than 3000 visitors came during the recent Borneo Bird Festival aka BBF at Rainforest Discovery Centre, one of the best place to see the endemic &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Bornean Bristlehead&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Rufous-collared Kingfisher&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Great Slaty Woodpecker&lt;/span&gt; and many more !&lt;br /&gt;
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Had a great time with the gang displaying some of the bird and mammal pictures for visitors at the same time, we received a good response in regards with &lt;a href="http://www.nikon.com/products/sportoptics/edg/index.htm"&gt;Digiscoping&lt;/a&gt; ~ The uses of spotting scope coupled with compact or DSLR camera via adapter by explaining to them the benefits etc in capturing images and videos while birding.&lt;br /&gt;
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Thanks to Tee &lt;a href="http://www.nikon.com.my/"&gt;Nikon Malaysia&lt;/a&gt;, Irene from &lt;a href="http://sandakanfotoblog.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sandakan Foto&lt;/a&gt;, Roy and Winston from &lt;a href="http://www.celcom.com.my/"&gt;Celcom Malaysia&lt;/a&gt; and Brian Erwin at &lt;a href="http://www.thinktankphoto.com/"&gt;Think Tank Photo&lt;/a&gt; for the sponsors. &lt;br /&gt;
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Some pictures are courtesy of Jollence Lee from &lt;a href="http://borneogeographic.com/"&gt;Borneo Geographic&lt;/a&gt; © All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Tee from Nikon Malaysia unboxing the new Nikon Fieldscope EDG85 VR&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sabah Park booth&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UCZNaGAce3U/TqS4B_TwEII/AAAAAAAAEvE/GH5sAytAbxw/s1600/DSC_5995.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UCZNaGAce3U/TqS4B_TwEII/AAAAAAAAEvE/GH5sAytAbxw/s1600/DSC_5995.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FR5_y7uOimE/TqS4U7HyzSI/AAAAAAAAEv8/hHDWxAyIUpI/s1600/DSC_6008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FR5_y7uOimE/TqS4U7HyzSI/AAAAAAAAEv8/hHDWxAyIUpI/s1600/DSC_6008.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Setting up materials for display at BBC @ Keting2 booth&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ecOJ4ISMrSY/TqS4X6OdEBI/AAAAAAAAEwE/v1yMqIxAdNQ/s1600/DSC_6012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ecOJ4ISMrSY/TqS4X6OdEBI/AAAAAAAAEwE/v1yMqIxAdNQ/s1600/DSC_6012.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Kadaiku from Sri Pelancong Sabah&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Renowned photo journalist David, Noredah and Diana from Sabah Tourism Board, one of the main organizer for BBF&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cZ0f9ycqxXc/TqS430sS8QI/AAAAAAAAExU/Dpq9y6-dbSE/s1600/DSC_6030.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cZ0f9ycqxXc/TqS430sS8QI/AAAAAAAAExU/Dpq9y6-dbSE/s1600/DSC_6030.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sandy testing the new VR scope !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sandakan Foto / Nikon Malaysia ready for action !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PefD6JoMGFA/TqS5DZ84XJI/AAAAAAAAEx0/4--5J-6M0JM/s1600/DSC_6036.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PefD6JoMGFA/TqS5DZ84XJI/AAAAAAAAEx0/4--5J-6M0JM/s1600/DSC_6036.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The latest Nikon V1 / J1 mirrorless camera and I want it !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GzAJkQ9FAkA/TqS5HBvzOjI/AAAAAAAAEx8/FO99MsnDjjQ/s1600/DSC_6042.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GzAJkQ9FAkA/TqS5HBvzOjI/AAAAAAAAEx8/FO99MsnDjjQ/s1600/DSC_6042.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;My best buddy Tee from Nikon Malaysia ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UVsnv52pvh0/TqTbWp2dlkI/AAAAAAAAEyE/KriLxFol3dE/s1600/DSCN8616+Keting2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UVsnv52pvh0/TqTbWp2dlkI/AAAAAAAAEyE/KriLxFol3dE/s1600/DSCN8616+Keting2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;BBC @ Keting2 booth at Day 1 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qLGPDZ2YhXM/TqTbmEZqohI/AAAAAAAAEys/DYK_sVPRruE/s1600/DSCN8654+Ron.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qLGPDZ2YhXM/TqTbmEZqohI/AAAAAAAAEys/DYK_sVPRruE/s1600/DSCN8654+Ron.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GFo2u6Vyq8w/TqTbpqOuQhI/AAAAAAAAEy0/sO3CLYYIDbY/s1600/DSCN8656+Think+Tank.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GFo2u6Vyq8w/TqTbpqOuQhI/AAAAAAAAEy0/sO3CLYYIDbY/s1600/DSCN8656+Think+Tank.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Think Tank Photo, one of the sponsor for the booth and preferred brand for photography and birding by the gang&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RSmjjlwA524/TqTb4zu624I/AAAAAAAAEzc/lY0zIo6_fZw/s1600/DSCN8666+Alphon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RSmjjlwA524/TqTb4zu624I/AAAAAAAAEzc/lY0zIo6_fZw/s1600/DSCN8666+Alphon.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Alphon and Gary, Borneo Bird Club president &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Think Tank Photo bags on display &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The supportive wives !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Ron explaining quality pictures taken with Digiscoping and Lens&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;From left to right; Dennis, Jollence, Ghaffar and Azami&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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See you all next year !&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8798636517925217373-6051363911021806879?l=horukuru.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Uncommon winter visitor to North Borneo and this is my 2nd time seeing this beauty at the paddy field mixing together with &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Long-toed Stint&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Wood Sandpiper&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Javan Pond Heron&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Whiskered Tern&lt;/span&gt; yesterday.&lt;br /&gt;
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Plus new lifer when my friends saw the &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Oriental Plover&lt;/span&gt;, a rare migrant to Borneo and 1st record for Sabah in the morning, it was worth the wait in the evening making up my &lt;a href="http://borneobirds.com/borneo400/"&gt;Borneo list&lt;/a&gt; to 454 !&lt;br /&gt;
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Digiscoped with &lt;a href="http://www.nikon.com/products/sportoptics/edg/index.htm"&gt;Nikon Fieldscope EDG85&lt;/a&gt; via FSA-L2 DSLR Photo Adapter on Nikon D300s&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AQ6kpyRi2mo/TpEvC-qcRVI/AAAAAAAAEtg/9b1qsCOBWTQ/s640/JAY_7581+Ruff.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Good birding and will try to get good pictures of the Oriental Plover before the 3rd Borneo Bird Festival at Sepilok :) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8798636517925217373-2249504377152772149?l=horukuru.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Spent few days birding with a good friend of mine and his client Brian and Corrine at Kota Belud, Mt. Kinabalu and around Kota Kinabalu city for some migratory waterbirds and endemics at the mountain.&lt;br /&gt;
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The journey started from Kota Kinabalu to Tempasuk paddy field at Kota Belud district about an hour drive up&amp;nbsp; North. Considered one of the best birding site for visitor birds from North Asia and some of the species seen there such as &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Long-toed Stint&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Watercock&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Marsh Sandpiper&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Buff-banded Rail&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Little Ringed Plover&lt;/span&gt;. Then up to Kinabalu National Park for &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Bornean Treepie&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Fruithunter&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Jambu Fruit Dove&lt;/span&gt; with &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Chestnut-crested Yuhina&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Mountain Tailorbird&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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I will be at &lt;a href="http://www.borneobirdfestival.com/"&gt;Borneo Bird Festival&lt;/a&gt; from the 14th - 16th October in Rainforest Discovery Centre, Sandakan. Hope to see you there :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8798636517925217373-6154701451966033508?l=horukuru.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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As expected few species from North Asia has arrived at Lok Kawi beach, one of the place where I normally do my yearly counting. So far, common species has been seen and photographed such as &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Pacific Golden Plover&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Curlew Sandpiper&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Grey-tailed Tattler&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Greater Sand Plover&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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While driving to one of the beach in my local patch yesterday, saw a pair of &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Tern&lt;/span&gt; from a distance flying high and low at a used to be a watermelon farm next to the mangrove but now covered with soil roughly about an acre and there were cows with &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Cattle Egret&lt;/span&gt; too.&lt;br /&gt;
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Upon careful inspections, saw 2 juvenile &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Little Tern&lt;/span&gt; on the ground guarded by one of the parent while the other one was busy distracting few Cattle Egret nearby by swooping on top back and forth. The next 1 hour spent taking pictures in flight of the &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Tern&lt;/span&gt; !&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Little Tern&lt;/span&gt; is a common winter visitor but arrived in my place only in small number from September - April. It could be seen at Likas Mudflat and Lok Kawi beach together with the other waterbirds and considered the smallest in the region.&lt;br /&gt;
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Spent few nights at Kinabalu National Park to get some of the montane endemic for Greg &amp;amp; Terri and managed to get excellent view of &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Whitehead's Spiderhunter&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Trogon&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Broadbill&lt;/span&gt; ! Other species seen such as &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Grey-headed Babbler&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;White-browed Shotwing&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Mt. Wren-Babbler&lt;/span&gt;. On final afternoon, visited Lok Kawi and Tg. Aru beach and saw Little Tern together with &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Greater Sand Plover&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Grey-tailed Tattler&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Blue-naped Parrot&lt;/span&gt;. Total species seen over 150 birds including their visit at Danum Valley.&lt;br /&gt;
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Spent a week with Ron &amp;amp; Carol searching for the best birds and wildlife at Mt. Kinabalu, Kinabatangan River and Sepilok Forest Reserve before they continued birding at Singapore and Thailand. With total over 170 birds seen and some of them were captured with my scopes, a pair of &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Whitehead's Trogon&lt;/span&gt; was one of the main highlight seen on the final morning after searching for several days at the mountain !&lt;br /&gt;
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At Kinabatangan River and Sepilok, few endangered &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Storm's Stork&lt;/span&gt; with &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Lesser Adjutant&lt;/span&gt;, few pairs of &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Wreathed Hornbill&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Grey-headed Fish Eagle&lt;/span&gt; and only the sound of &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Bornean Ground Cuckoo&lt;/span&gt; and the fast moving &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Blue-headed Pitta&lt;/span&gt; at Gomantong Cave. Missed the &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;White-crowned&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Helmeted Hornbill &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Bornean Bristlehead&lt;/span&gt; this time.&lt;br /&gt;
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The only place left in the city to see this beauty together with &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Great&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Little&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Intermediate Egret&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;White-browed Crake&lt;/span&gt; and few winter visitors such as &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Temminck's Stint&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Black-winged Stilt&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Common Greenshank&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Little Ringed Plover&lt;/span&gt; at Likas Lagoon&lt;br /&gt;
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Joined the &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;24th &lt;a href="http://www.pkbf.org.my/"&gt;Fraser's Hill International Bird Race&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; held together with Ron and Alven at the same time meeting up with Tee from &lt;span style="color: yellow;"&gt;Nikon Malaysia&lt;/span&gt; and Andrew who has been there since the 20th with his Japanese group. The main target for this trip was the &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Silver-breasted Broadbill&lt;/span&gt; and shown by Andrew on the day of arrival !&lt;br /&gt;
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Then a bonus while driving back along the Jeriau Waterfall, saw a pair of &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Red-headed Trogon&lt;/span&gt;. It reminds the gang of the elusive &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Whitehead's Trogon&lt;/span&gt; found at Mt. Kinabalu hehehe and we got the &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Orange-breasted Trogon&lt;/span&gt; at Bukit Tinggi after failed to see it at Fraser's Hill despite trying twice along The Gap road.&lt;br /&gt;
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On our final day, visited the Putrajaya Wetland for the Painted Stork with other waterbirds that inhabitant the small islands. Saw a pair of White-headed Munia too.&lt;br /&gt;
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Thanks to Tee from &lt;span style="color: yellow;"&gt;Nikon Malaysia&lt;/span&gt; and Mr. Durai for their hospitality at Fraser's Hill. Definitely will come back next year with more teams from Land Below The Wind :)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Driving from Kuala Lumpur to Fraser's Hill with rented car from &lt;a href="http://www.simedarbycarrental.com/"&gt;Hertz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ron testing his Olympus E-P1 on my Nikon Fieldscope EDG85 hehehe with Andrew at &lt;a href="http://www.fraserssilverpark.com/accomodation.html"&gt;Silverpark Apartment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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My third sighting of these beauty and considered one of the rare &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Jungle Flycatcher&lt;/span&gt; in my place :)&lt;br /&gt;
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