What’s your favourite hen species?
Trogons
Whitehead’s Trogon
What’s your title, and the place do you reside?
Andrew J. Sebastian, Malaysia
What are the primary areas or places you cowl as a hen information?
Malaysia, Borneo, Indonesia, and West Papua
How lengthy have you ever been a hen information?
24 years
How did you get into hen guiding?
A Purple-headed Trogon turned up in entrance of me in the future – and no trying again since!
Black-crowned Pitta
What are the features of being a hen information that you just like greatest? Which features do you dislike most?
The fun on the faces of the shoppers once we hit goal birds!
Wilson’s Fowl-of-Paradise
What are the highest 5-10 birds in your area which can be probably the most attention-grabbing for visiting birders?
- Black-and-yellow Broadbill
- Black-crowned Pitta
- Blue-banded Pitta
- Bornean Banded Pitta
Blue-banded Pitta
Are you able to define a minimum of one typical birdwatching journey in your space? Please briefly describe the places, the important thing birds, and the approximate length of such a visit
Day 1: KOTA KINABALU-KINABALU PARK
Meet at Kota Kinabalu airport. Head to Tanjung Aru (a 10-minute drive) to focus on coastal birds, particularly the Blue-rumped Parrot together with Inexperienced Imperial Pigeons, Collared Kingfisher, White-breasted Wooden-swallows, and so forth. Drive 1.5 hours to Kinabalu Park for night birds. In a single day Perkasa Resort (or related).
Day 2: KINABALU PARK, FULL DAY
Goal Birds: Mountain / Kinabalu Serpent Eagle (E), Black-sided Flowerpecker (E), Whiteheads Spiderhunter (E), Mountain Barbet (E), Bornean Bulbul (E), Bornean Treepie (E), Sunda Laughing-thrush (E), Whiteheads Trogon (E), Whiteheads Broadbill (E), Chestnut-crested Yuhina (E) and so forth
Day 3: KINABALU PARK – TAMBUNAN
Spend a lot of the day on the park, take a look at from the resort, and drive 2 hours to Tambunan city for two nights. Test in at Paddy View Guesthouse.
Day 4: TAMBUNAN
Early drive 45 minutes to Trusmadi Cover. We spend nearly the total day right here at a cushty conceal with megastar birds. Lunch on the conceal.
Targets: Bulwer’s Pheasant (E), Bornean Banded Pitta (E), White-crowned Shama (E), Crested Partridge and so forth. Return to Paddy View, Tambunan.
Bornean Banded Pitta
Day 5: TAMBUNAN – TELUPID
Try Tambunan, 1-hour drive to Gunung Alab. Higher montane hen conceal for shut views of some superb endemics.
Targets: Crimson-headed Partridge (E), Purple-breasted Partridge (E), Hooded Laughingthrush (E), Sunda Laughingthrush (E) and so forth.
Depart Gunung Alab for Kota Kinabalu (2 hours) with lunch alongside the best way and get dropped off on the Kota Kinabalu Airport or a resort within the metropolis. END OF TOUR.
Rhinoceros Hornbill
What different recommendations are you able to give to birders desirous about your space?
The perfect season is between mid-February to April and from July to early November.
Black-and-yellow Broadbill
If any reader of 10,000 Birds is desirous about birding with you, how can they greatest contact you?
E-mail at [email protected] or on my FB at https://www.fb.com/andrew.j.sebastian/ or IG at https://www.instagram.com/andrewjsebastian/?hl=en
