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

 

20 July 2024

Chine Pond Heron and Striated Heron

Chinese Pond Heron (Ardeola bacchus) VS  Striated Heron (Butorides striata javanica)
Chinese Pond Heron (Ardeola bacchus)- punk hair style

Chinese Pond Heron in flight

Striated Heron (Butorides striata javanica) -punk hair style

Striated Heron in flight

Chinese Pond Heron in flight


15 June 2024

Asian dollarbird, Oriental dollarbird in flight

I have seen his blue bird making a hole in the coconut tree trunk in Temerloh., but this is the first time in Raub. I think this bird came from the nearby hill of a rubber plantation.
Dollar Bird in flight
Oriental dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis orientalis)
Dollar Bird in Flight
then turning back to the rubber plantation.
In flight has a characteristic white circle, or ‘dollar’, on each under wing.

25 May 2024

Stork billed Kingfisher harassed White-throated kingfisher Birds

Stork-billed Kingfisher (Pelargopsis capensis malaccensiswas) harassing and chasing a White-throated Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis perpulchra).
Stork-billed Kingfisher chasing White-throated Kingfisher

The  "Big Boss" (37cm) sits high up on the Ironwood tree (Casuarina equisetifolia)

the "little" one (28cm) is contended on the tree stump