Tiung emas biasa (Gracula religiosa)- Common Hill Myna

Tiung emas biasa (Gracula religiosa religiosa),on dead the bottle palm (Hyophorbe lagenicaulis)

 

Bald Common Myna - Tiung Kepala Botak

Yellow funky "botak-head", looks like vultures.

Cause: Unknown

I photographed it in Temeroh, just outside my perimeter fence. 

Common Mynas (Acridotheres tristis tristis)

Bald Common Myna

Feeding on a Lesser Spear grass,(Chrysopogon aciculatus). Rumput kemuncup

doing their activity normally

 

Jangka Hayat Burung - Life Expectancy of Birds

Kenapa burung Tiong ini dan Merbah Kapur ini meninggal  dunia  mati?.
Why birds die?
1.Disease (selsema burung). Avian Influenza atau Bird Flu selalu berlaku pada burung peliharaan seperti ayam dan itik. Burung hijrah mungkin membawa virus ini. Tiong tidak pernah dikesan membawa kuman ini.
2.Kill by neighbor's cat, here information cat killing kingfisher from Singapore's Bird Ecology Study Group
3.Fighting for mate or whatever reason. Gambar  saya  rakam pada tahun 2008
4.Hunger - Kelaparan kerana musnahnya alam sekitar punca makanan
5.Poacher - Diburu untuk peliharaan
6.Catapult slingshot  by boys - Dilastik budak-budah (zaman saya kecik2 dulu)
Berapa lama jangka hayat burung?
Data saintifik adalah berdasarkan kajian "ringing". Burung ditangkap mengunakan jaring, cincin dengan kod tertentu dipasang pada kaki burung, kemudian dilepaskan. Tangkapan berikut mengikut sela masa dapat menentukan jangka hayat. Universiti Malaya "Bird Ringing Project" - sekurang-kurangnya ada burung Grey-check bulbul dan Cimanon Rump Trogon ditangkap semula selepas 5 tahun.
Secara amnya, burung yang di atas rangkaiyan piramid makan hidup lebih lama, contohnya Helang Botak (Bald Eagle) boleh hidup hingga 30tahun. Burung perliharaan bisanya hidup lebih lama. Kakatua boleh hidup hingga umur 80 tahun
[Article ini belum siap  ;)  to be continue! ]

Common Backyard Birds during Sultan Pahang Birthday Holiday

Pycnonotus goaivier feeding Micrantha sp. fruits

few more common birds below:-

Hill Myna Song - Suara Tiong Emas

Hill Myna (Gracula religiosa)

Click for the Song (taken from Xeno-canto Asia; recorded by Sander Pieterse & Ben Wielstra)

a few seconds before it flow off..

preening..

Have a look for more bird pictures at the Bird Photography Weekly @ Birdfreak.

Hill Myna at Kemensah - Tiong Emas

Hill Myna (Gracula religiosa) - Tiong Emas

Heavily edited image with Adobe Photoshop. This bird perched very high up at a dead tree like madibider images here.

Common Myna in flight

Ok this is birds SkyWatch! - five Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis) in flight, never mind not so blue sky.

Hill Myna (Gracula religiosa) - another LIFER at my backyard

What an exciting week - two LIFER in three day. Actually this "Tiung Emas" is not true lifer as I have seen it at cage somewhere - a popular cage bird for it nice song that can mimic human voice, like parrot. Anyway this is the first time I saw it in natural habitat.

I was waiting for Pond Heron (Ardeola sp) - another early migrant here, to perch at this dead teak tree, when suddenly a flock of five myna perched. I though all that Common Myna or Javan Myna that I see every day. Then I noted unusual yellow colour at the side of the head. I just fire a few shot in the thick morning fog and mist with the flash off. So here are a few poor shot for my record.


The different between the two species is in the head yellow patch of Hill Myna (left) and Common Myna (right).
The feather is also different with Jet Black for Hill Myna and dark grey for Common Myna.

Hill Myna (Gracula religiosa)
Local name Tiong Emas
Size (cm) 30
Habitat Forests, forest edge, wooded areas

Ole Nest

Look like this hole/nest is already abandon by barbet. No sign of nesting activity for the past two weeks. This mynas (and wood pecker) has been pocking inside the hole.

After reading about Common /Javan Myna that nesting at tree cavity and hole, maybe this is the Myna's nest!

(time for more observation!)

Myna

Nest Update - part 2

I waited again the whole evening for her return, but nothing. Maybe her nest is already completed and no further construction needed.


Than this visitor came in. Like the woodpeckers his morning, this pair of Javan Mynas climbed in and poked their heads into the hole. They got nothing because the nest is empty.






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Than late in the evening I saw this Gold-wiskered Barbet (probably male) perched high up with food in his mouth. He didn't go down into the hole. He flew off, maybe going to give that food to his girlfriend.
I don't know what that yellow food in that beak, some kind of fruit or could it be a faecal sac?. The photograph by Nelson Khor here, shows the same yellow thingy. (cropped picture below)


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