Birding Wildlife Travel Asia
Rare Green Broadbill in Pulau Ubin Singapore The Green Broadbill, a plump and short-tailed bird with bright green plumage, is the smallest bird in the broadbill family in Southeast Asia, about 18 cm. I first encountered this beautiful bird in Mulu National Park in Sarawak in 2006. To a non-trained eye, it is not easy... Continue Reading →
My First 15 Day Borneo Birding Trip To Sarawak | Photo Travel Asia Mano and I teamed up to do a 15 day bird density survey in Sarawak in 2006. After the trip, I had two articles published. One was on “Sarawak’s Elusive Rainforest Birds” in Australia by Wingspan Magazine in June 2008. The other... Continue Reading →
Photographing birds in Gujarat | Kutch District| India Photographing birds in Gujarat, Kutch district in India, holds a very unique landscape for wildlife and birding. My interest in Gujarat started after reading the documented journeys made by the late Salim Ali and Datuk Loke Wan Tho back in 1943 to 1944 in the book, “Loke Wan... Continue Reading →
7 Endemic Birds of Vietnam in Dalat I was fascinated by the number of endemic birds in Vietnam in the main land as compared with the neighbouring southeast Asian countries like Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. Normally islands like Philippines or Borneo bring about habitat isolation with more endemism due to geographical isolation by the sea.... Continue Reading →
First image of Dulit Frogmouth
Photographing Fungi in Rainforest of Southeast Asia | PhotoTravelAsia We have encountered fungi in our lives either through our favorite cream of mushroom soup or the molds that grow on a piece of stale bread. Fungus is a simple fast-growing type of organisms such as mushroom and mold. While some fungi are edible, others can... Continue Reading →
Changeable Hawk Eagle and White-bellied Sea Eagle in Pasir Ris Park Singapore On the morning of 2 July, about 8:30 am, I was at Carpark B in Pasir Ris Park. When I got off the car, my daughter saw a large bird at a distance on a tree by the Tampines River and alerted me. It was a Changeable... Continue Reading →
Wild Baby Buffy Fish Owl Landed on Grass Patch | Rescued by ACRES| Hampstead Wetlands Park Singapore.
Photographing Birds with Your Ears It is already extremely challenging to look for an elusive bird in the rainforest in daytime, let alone searching for nocturnal bird at night. This is where ‘photographing birds with your ears’ comes into play. Borneo has beautiful luscious green rainforest with rustling foliage by day and totally pitched dark... Continue Reading →
Masked Finfoot | Early sighting in 1992|Malaysia Masked Finfoot | Early sighting in 1992 | Malaysia In the early 90's, not much was known about the Masked Finfoot (heliopais personata), an aquatic bird, except for its distribution in eastern Indian subcontinent, Indochina and Malaysia. There were a few reports of its early sighting in Taman Negara,... Continue Reading →
Bar-bellied Pitta. Regional endemic bird in southern Vietnam.
4D3N Bird Photography Trip to Ganeshgudi, Karnataka, Western Ghats India.
Asian Emerald Cuckoos in Bangkok. Bird watching in Thailand.
Birding Khao Yai National Park Thailand It was 43 ° C in Bangkok under the direct sun and 38 °C under the shade. Nomatter how you look at it, it was very HOT. It was time to escape the heat to the cooler 20 degree mountain air, Khao Yai National Park for birding. The last time I stepped... Continue Reading →
Tigers of India. Our story on the tigers of India is published in the current isuue of Asian Geographic Magazine ( No 122 Issue 6/2016). The past 13 years have taken us on several journeys through many parts of India. The rich biodiversity of nature in India has led us to return again and again begging... Continue Reading →
Whistling-Thrushes in Borneo, India, Malaysia, Thailand & Sri Lanka| Birding in Asia
Landscape Photography Iceland|HDR
