Under the revised MCO 3.0, outdoor photography is not allowed. As an avid photographer,  I feel like my wings have been clipped. I am going to miss “shooting” my avian models. I am going to miss my outings to Piasau Boat Club, Piasau Nature Reserve, Kuala Baram Wetlands, Miri Central Park and Coco Cabana. It is very frustrating not being allowed ...

I have been photographing birds for quite a long time but it was only on October 1 this year that I managed to come across a Wallace’s hawk-eagle for the first time in Piasau Boat Club area. Since then, I managed to encounter it again on October 11. It gave me great joy to be able to photograph the beautiful ...

Today is Day 28 of the MCO. I was in my car on the way to buy breakfast at a coffeeshop not far from my house in Senadin when I saw this lovely yellow wagtail on the roadside not far from one of the security pondoks in our gated community. The yellow wagtail is a small, graceful, yellow and green ...

Ospreys, also called fish hawk, are large raptors reaching more than 60 cm in length and 180 cm across the wings. They are a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey that live along seacoasts, lakes and waterways. They are brown on the upperparts and predominantly white on the underparts, with some white on their heads and distinctive black eye stripes that go down the ...

The Oriental darter or Indian darter (Anhinga melanogaster) is a cormorant-like waterbird with a long, slender, snakelike neck, and a straight, pointed bill. It can be found in tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia. With its body submerged in water, it hunts for fish, darting its neck to impale the fish underwater, bringing it above the surface, tossing and juggling it before ...

The oriental white-eye (灰腹绣眼鸟) is a small passerine bird in the white-eye family. Known as Kelicap Kacamata Biasa in Malay, they are easily identified by the distinctive white eye-ring and overall yellowish upper parts. It is a resident breeder in open woodland in tropical Asia east from India to China and Indonesia. This bird is small (about 8–11 cm long) with yellowish olive upper ...

The black-winged kite is an elegant, streamlined white, grey and black raptor with owl-like forward facing eyes. Also known as the black-shouldered kite, it has large eyes with blackish eye-patch, black bill and yellow legs and feet. Once quite scarce in Borneo, it is now a common lowland resident throughout Borneo. It is the only kite that hovers like a kestrel. ...

Regarded as one of the noblest and most spectacular of all birds of prey, the peregrine falcon is reputed to be the world’s fastest bird as well as the fastest member of the animal kingdom, capable of reaching 200 miles per hour with its continuous powerful wingbeats. Its speed makes it a formidable hunter that preys on other birds in ...

The crested honey buzzard is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as kites. eagles, and harriers.  It is also known as the Oriental honey buzzard. It is long-necked with a small head (resembling that of a pigeon), and soars on flat wings. The head lacks a strong supraciliary ridge giving it a very un-raptor-like facial appearance. It ...

The pied triller is a smallish black and white bird in the Campephagidae family that is widespread and very common lowland resident  in Brunei, India, Indonesia, the Philiipines, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. It feeds on insects and worms. Though this is a very common bird, I have only encountered it three or four times during my bird photography outings.