Click the above LOGO for more participation from all over the world.This two species of Malkohas were my LIFER. Caught it digitally during Maal Hijrah holiday, at a graveyard!
Raffles's Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus chlorophaeus) - female
Black-bellied Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus diardi)
Kampung Sempam Graveyard.
7 comments:
Those are awesome colours for birds. They almost seem unreal. Fun.
Tabib: Beautiful birds and beautiful country shown.
The colors of your birds are awesome indeed! What a beautiful world you share! Thanks for sharing it with us. Happy New Year!
Great photos, the colors of the birds are excellent.
Congratulations on the lifers and thanks for sharing your world and photos.
Congrats!
I enjoyed seeing both of these when I was there. Great pics!
Did you know that "Malkoha" is a name of Sinhala - Sri Lankan origin? "Mal" means flower and "Koha" means Cuckoo/Koel in Sinhala!
It was first used to refer to a Sri Lankan endemic, Red-faced Malkoha Phaenicopheaus pyrrocephalus. This canopy-dweller was first collected by Joan Gideon Loten - the Ducth govenor of maritime provinces of Sri Lanka from 1752-1757, who pioneered Ornithological studies in Sri Lanka. After collecting it and other birds and natural history, he noted their weights, dimensions and local names, Loten commissioned a Sinhalese artist with Dutch origins named Pieter Cornelius de Bevere to illustrate them. As preserving specimens/skins were not well developed those days, naturalists in other parts of the world, most in Britain started naming these 'collections' based on Loten's/de Bevere's iconotypes when Loten retired in Britain ( after disagreements with the VOC over 'some payments'!!) As such the actual naming of our Red-faced Malkoha was done by Thomas Pennent who published Indian Zoology in 1769, which announced among other things, the Red-faced Malkoha. From that point onwards the genus "Phaenicophaeus" was associated with the newly romanized name; "Malkoha" and was used to all these good-looking Malkohas named thereafter.
Quite romantic, innit?
gorgeous! how wonderfully lucky you are to have birds like this to look at. thank you for showing off your lifers!
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