All cracking birds, great to see! Sometimes the pics don’t work so well and that’s fine, photography can be a distraction from enjoying the moment…

1. Siberian Blue Robin
2. Plume-toed Swiftlets
3. Whitehead’s Broadbill

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These are essentially solitary. So unlikely to have the Party / Fiesta that Lionel Richie referred to in his song…

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Good word

Thank you 🙏

Excellent suggestions, a few of those are in bird names too and a shame that the others are not.

Colour Me Beautiful!

Yes, lovely.

It’s a great birding spot!

This species is only found on a handful of small islands off Borneo and the Philippines. A lot of Scops Owls look pretty similar, but they do have distinctive calls, ranges and habitat preferences.

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Appropriately, we saw this on Mantanani Island off the coast of Sabah, Borneo. Where at the Sutera resort, a pair very obligingly perch in a floodlit tree every night around 8pm.

About 200m down hill from Timpohon Gate.

This is one of those three. The others being Whitehead’s Broadbill (which we saw just as it stated to rain on our last day at Kinabalu ✅) and Whitehead’s Spiderhunter (which we missed, largely because there were no flowers 😢)

A big target for bird botherers visiting Borneo is the Whitehead’s trio - three endemic birds named after John Whitehead a British naturalist, who collected lots of specimens in SE Asia and was the first European to reach the summit of Mt Kinabalu.

This is one of those three. The others being Whitehead’s Broadbill (which we saw just as it stated to rain on our last day at Kinabalu ✅) and Whitehead’s Spiderhunter (which we missed, largely because there were no flowers 😢)

A big target for bird botherers visiting Borneo is the Whitehead’s trio - three endemic birds named after John Whitehead a British naturalist, who collected lots of specimens in SE Asia and was the first European to reach the summit of Mt Kinabalu.