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....Birds
and Birding in Malaysia
by Koji
Tagi. Malaysia is located
in the
near equator. The climate is humid throughout the year. Tall
trees grow more than 50 meters from the ground and wide
variety of trees forms dense and dark tropical forest,
"jungle". This site introduces the lowland forest birds, the
birds of the cool hill stations, the birds of the coastal
mangroves and open country, as well as introducing the major
birding spots in the Peninsular Malaysia. Go here! Many
photos.
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....Annotated
Ramsar List - Malaysia
an
excellent example of a "blackwater" ecosystem. 119 bird
species, Brief information on Tasek Bera,
of
which two, Masked Finfoot and Crested Fireback, are
threatened.
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....Birdwatching
Areas: Danum Valley Conservation Area,
The
Danum Valley Conservation Area, situated along the upper
reaches of the Segama River, lies within the largest remaining
area of primary lowland rain forest in Sabah.
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....Parit
Jawa - A haven for the Lesser Adjutant
Tucked
away on the
western
coast of the State of Johor, Malaysia, lies a small town
called Parit Jawa. Comprising little more than a few dusty
streets with crumbling colonial shophouses, Parit Jawa may one
day be a mecca for local bird enthusiasts. For if you follow
the one-kilometre road that leads down to the fishing village,
and walk to the end of the wooden jetty, there is a high
chance that you will be able to see one of the rarest storks
in the world, the Lesser Adjutant.
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....The
Kinabatangan Rainforest Wetland -
It is
the largest remaining
forested floodplain in Sabah. Originating in southwestern
Sabah, the Kinabatangan River flows for 560 kilometres (347
miles) through eastern Sabah to the Sulu Sea. The lower
Kinabatangan contains some of the few remaining freshwater
swamp rainforests and lakes in all of Southeast Asia. These
evergreen swamp rainforests are crucial for conservation. See
also
this website.
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....Birds
of Sarawak - Locations.
Principal recommended bird-watching
locations,
including national parks and wildlife sanctuaries, for which
entry permits are required from the National Parks and
Wildlife Office. This page is part of a larger page on
everything you ever wanted to know about birds in Sarawak.
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....Sabah,
Borneo - trip report by Wayne Hsu.0
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....Taman
Negara National Park -
The
world's oldest tropical rainforest
beckons in Malaysia. Preserved to stay the way nature intended
it to be for you to explore and enjoy. A haven for hundreds of
species of wildlife, exotic bird, fish and plants. Covering
4,343 sq km of virgin jungle, the park offers an undisturbed
diversity of habitats and plant communities.
Another
great site on the Taman Negara Park.
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....Kuala
Gula Bird Sanctuary
Malaysia - Kuala Gula
is famous for the
variety of
exotic birds which come here to nest. Over 100 species of
birds, some of them protected, have been sighted in this area.
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....Kuala
Selangor Nature Park
Kuala
Selangor Nature Park is situated
at the mouth of Selangor River , in the state of Selangor ,
Malaysia. It covers approximately 800 acres of mangroves and
mudflats and is the home to various wildlife such as otters,
monkeys, birds, mudskippers and crabs. It has chalets for
overnight visitors, hostel for study groups, and a visitors
center to provide information and sell souvenirs.
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....Wetlands
International - Malaysia Programme:
Tasik Bera Project - Malaysia's first Ramsar site, the Tasik
Bera area, a large freshwater lake and swamp forest ecosystem.
Map on site.
More
information on Tasek Bera.
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....Endau-Kota
Tinggi (East) Wildlife Reserve
Located about 16km
south of Mersing,
in the north-east coast of Johore, and bordering the South
China Sea.
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....Birding
trip to Malaysia 1997 - by Tom and Marie Tarrant.
Provides descriptions of 3 main sites, Kuala Selangor, Bukit
Fraser (Fraser's Hill) and Taman Negara. This is a brief
description of the wildlife seen during that period.
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....Sabah
Trip report, 1997 - by Tony Coatsworth.
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....Trip
Report(s): Sabah & Sarawak (Borneo, Malaysia) This
trip report is
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....Trip
Report: Taiwan & Malaysia.
This
trip report is provided
courtesy of
Urs Geiser's Trip Report Archive.
November 4-17, 1995 - by Rob Goldbach, Taking into account
that we had only 3 days to spend in this bird-rich country, we
chose to visit 2 important areas rather close to Kuala Lumpur
and the Subang international airport: Fraser's Hill (including
"The Gap") and the Nature Park ("Taman Alam") Kuala Selangor.
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....Notes
of a short trip to Singapore and Tioman Island,
December
25-31,
1996 - by Fer-Jan de Vries.
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....Trip
Report: Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.
This
trip report is
provided courtesy of
Urs Geiser's Trip Report Archive.
May 10-23, 1996 by Keith and Lindsay Fisher. Birdwatching in
Malaysia proved to be a great experience when we visited there
in May 1996. In two weeks we travelled between Singapore,
Kuala Lumpur, Taman Negara, Frasers Hill and Kuala Selangor --
which gave us a good variety of habitats. The Malay
Peninsular, including Singapore, has a total of 639 species of
birds of which 426 are classified as residents and just two as
endemics. We saw a total of 170 species of which 135 were new
birds for us.
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....In
Search of the Flying Rhino
a
visit to peninsular Malaysia -
A Birding Trip
Report by Keith Martin and Claire Moss between 19th July and
21st August 1996.
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....Trip
Report: Peninsular Malaysia,
March
15 - April 5, 1997 by Susan
Myers.
We visited four sites (five if you count Fraser's Hill and The
Gap as separate locations) over 23 days. This encompassed
three habitat types -- mangrove/woodland, lowland rainforest
and montane/submontane forest. All the places we visited are
within easy reach of Kuala Lumpur. See also Susan's 2000
reports from
Sabah
and
Peninsular Malaysia.
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....Trip
Report: Sabah, Borneo
August,
1997 - by Wayne Hsu. I always felt jealous about how I've
never had such exciting birding trips when I travel with a
tour group; so I asked my parents to let me go on one birding
trip somewhere in South East Asia before I
graduate from high school. After much persuasion, they finally
agreed, and I chose to go on the Wild Bird Society of Taipei's
foreign birding trip to Sabah, Malaysia and Borneo during my
summer vacation. I was
very
grateful and very excited, for this is my first real birding
trip outside Taiwan.
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....Birding
trip reports: Malaysia and Singapore
September 14 to
26, 1997 - by David B. Collinge.
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....Trip
Report: Malaysia, September, 1997 - by Tom and Marie
Tarrant.
During
September, 1997, we returned to the UK with a trwo-week
satopever in Malaysia, and managed to visit three main sites:
Kuala Selangor, Bukit Fraser (Fraser's Hill) and Teman Negara.
This is a brief description of the wildlife seen during that
period.
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....Trip
Report: Peninsular Malaysia, February 22 - March 8, 1998.
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....Peninsular
Malaysia, March 8-31, 1998.
This
trip report is provided
courtesy of
Urs Geiser's Trip Report Archive. by David Geale. A
detailed account of a serious three weeks of birding. Great
trip! Also a more anecdotal report of the same trip.
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....Trip
Report: Peninsular Malaysia, June 10-29, 1998
This
trip report is
provided courtesy of
Urs Geiser's Trip Report Archive. By Aidan G.
Kelly. For western
travellers, now is a good time to visit SE Asia as the Asian
economic crisis means that exchange rates are very
attractive.
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....Trip
Report: Peninsular Malaysia.
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....Trip
Report: Malaysia, July 3 and 16-21, 1998.
This
trip report is
provided courtesy of
Urs Geiser's Trip Report Archive. By Peter N. Thompson.
This is a short account of two birding stopovers in Malaysia
on my way between Johannesburg and Sydney. Apart from being
one of the cheapest routes between South Africa and Australia,
it is probably also the birdiest. See also Peter's
May 1997 Trip Report.
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....Trip
Report: Peninsular Malaysia
September 1998 - by Keith Regan
and
Nick Watmough. Our work and family commitments largely
dictated the timing of this trip. September is not the optimum
time to visit the peninsula, although it is before the rainy
season. We only had 10 days and with hindsight we should have
tried for a full fortnight in order to have a couple more days
at Taman Negara and we should have spent the night at the Gap
Resthouse for the birding at lower altitudes.
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....Trip
Report: Malaysia, Australia, Bali (Indonesia).
This
trip report is
provided courtesy of
Urs Geiser's Trip Report Archive. November 26 -
December 22, 1998 - by
Robert Payne. The major problem experienced was the torrential
rain that seems to occur about mid-afternoon - this waws
rather detrimental to birdwatching!
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....Trip
Report: Sabah (Malaysian Borneo).
This
trip report is provided
courtesy of
Urs Geiser's Trip Report Archive.
June 10 - 27, 1999 - by
Aidan
G. Kelly. The East Malaysian state of Sabah in north east
Borneo offers the most accessible birding on the island of
Borneo. Sabah together with the neighboring state of Sarawak
are semi-autonomous regions in the federation of Malaysia. The
remainder of Borneo consists of the Indonesian region of
Kalimantan and the state of Brunei.
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....Trip
Report: Peninsular Malaysia.
This
trip report is provided
courtesy of
Urs Geiser's Trip Report Archive.
July 3 - August 5, 1999 - by Wim Veraghtert. July is not the
best month to visit Peninsular Malaysia. July is characterized
by a lack of fruiting trees; many trees were flowering, as
August is a fruiting month. The lack of fruiting trees had
also a negative influence on our species list (especially for
some families, such as doves, flowerpeckers, barbets, ...).
Though, we still managed to get more than 300 species on our
list.
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....Trip
Report: Peninsular Malaysia, March 7-13 1999.
This
trip report is
provided courtesy of
Urs Geiser's Trip Report Archive. By Graham Tebb. When
booking flights in connection with a trip to the Philippines I
found myself unable to return to Vienna immediately because
all the cheap seats were already taken. The fastest route back
would have had me stay in Malaysia for three days awaiting a
connection, so we decided that Christine would fly out from
Vienna to join me and we should have a week's holiday. This is
a report of where we went, what we did and what we saw in that
time.
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....Trip
Report: Peninsular Malaysia.
This
trip report is provided
courtesy of
Urs Geiser's Trip Report Archive.
October 1999 - by Phil Benstead. These notes describe a brief
trip made to the highlands of Peninsular Malaysia during a
recent BirdLife conference.
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....Trip
Report: Sabah, Borneo (Malaysia)
February-March 2000 - by
Susan
Myers. This shortish report may help independent birders with
preparations for your trip or with finding some of the birds
once you get there. We found Sabah a breeze to travel around
albeit rather more expensive than many parts of Asia. The
birding was out of this world. We recorded over 230 species in
17 days. See also the continuation of Susan's trip to
Penisular Malaysia.
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....Trip
Report: Sabah, Borneo (Malaysia).
This
trip report is provided
courtesy of
Urs Geiser's Trip Report Archive.
April, 2000 - by John
Penhallurick. If I were going again, I would go a month
earlier. Although there would be more rain in March, by
mid-April the pittas and things like wren-nabblers were very
unresponsive.
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....Trip
Report: Peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand.
This
trip report is
provided courtesy of
Urs Geiser's Trip Report Archive.
April-May 2000 - by Chris Gooddie. Chris Gooddie and three
fellow UK birders, Kit Britten, Bob Harris, and Graham Hogan,
put together a trip to combine 4 sites in Malaysia - Taman
Negara, Fraser's Hill, The Gap and Kuala Selangor - with a
short visit to Khao Nor Chuchi and Krabi in Thailand
(principally to look for Gurney's Pitta). Trip total was 295
species (and 11 more heard), including 7 species of pitta - a
major target for us, so we were delighted to clean up (except
for Giant Pitta which we didn't really expect to score).
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....Trip
Report: Panti Forest, Johor.
This
trip report is provided courtesy
of
Urs Geiser's Trip Report Archive.
June 2000 - by Peter Ericsson. The Panti Forest is in
Malaysia, but only a dozen or so miles past the little town of
Kota Tinggi. It is an easy drive from Singapore, varying from
one to two hours depending on the traffic crossing the
causeway. Since being discovered and pioneered some years
back, some hard-core birders from Singapore have faithfully
returned to this lowland rainforest again and again, finding
an endless number of bird species.
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....Trip
Report : Peninsular Malaysia.
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....Malaysia
Birding Diary
April
11 - May 14, 2001. By Bill & Doreen
Stair.
The continuing saga of our year-long, theoretically low
budget, round the world birding trip... A couple of weeks on
Peninsular Malaysia and then two more in Borneo in search of
Bornean endemics and Sundan specialties. Malaysia has to be
one of the easiest countries in South Easy Asia to get around
- everyone seems to speak English, and the public transport
network is cheap and easy. Unfortunately, everything else is
relatively expensive, so prices came as something of a shock
after Thailand. Any attempt to economize by buying foodstuffs
and consuming them in your room should take into consideration
the large, cheerful and fearless rats that inhabit the
national parks.
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....Trip
Report: Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java,
Flores,
Rinca and Komodo Islands. May 24 - August 4, 2001.-
by Andy Adcock. As I've benefitted many times from other
peoples efforts in producing reports, I thought I'd have a go.
This report contains systematic bird lists for Malaysia and
Indonesia (319 species) and the Wallacean Islands (84
species).
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....Malaysia
Trip Reports -
you can
also find Malaysian trip reports on John
Girdley's BirdTours website by following the Asia/Malaysia
link from the main page.
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Factoids taken from
Where to watch birds in Asia - by Nigel Wheatley
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