05 October 2024

Juvenile Jungle fowl

One morning, I noticed this big bird perching on a coconut tree petiole.
Domesticated fowl rarely fly high up the tree. This must be a jungle species that wanders from the nearby palm oil plantation. 
The image above was edited (auto-colour) with Photoshop Version: 2017.1.0

Red Jungle fowl (Gallus gallus)
                                                                    
Original colour from the camera - jumping

Jungle fowl can only fly short distances, about 3-5 meters.

 

26 September 2024

Male Baya Weaver feeding on grass seeds

Male Baya Weaver (Ploceus philippinus infortunatus)

eating the savanna grass (Axonopus compressus) seeds

yellow cap

Male Baya Weaver (Ploceus philippinus infortunatus)

 

21 September 2024

Asian Glossy Starling pest in Town

Asian glossy starling (Aplonis panayensis strigata)







 

21 August 2024

Food for the King

This kingfisher is from the same pond where the stork-billed kingfisher was photographed feeding on small Puyu fish.
The white-throated here probably catch the same fish.
EDIT: After searching the internet, I found that this is a young Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), characterized by its brownish-gray body colour and distinctive vertical stripes.

white-throated kingfisher  (Halcyon smyrnensis)

King with fish = Kingfisher

ready to swallow