After I had observed a pair of Abbott’s Babblers (Malacocincla abbotti) for a long time and photographed them well (the voices from the tape did the rest), the activity of the singing babblers suddenly increased. Both individuals now come into the open areas of the forest edge more clearly and for longer periods of time. A long-tailed bird cautiously pushes itself out between the leaves. What can it be? Suddenly the bird disappeared again. Then I see a dark tail with white markings twitching in a low tree. Unfortunately, the rest of the bird is still hidden by leaves and branches. Finally a very silent Chestnut-breasted Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus curvirostris) emerges on a branch. The appearance of the large bird really gets the Abbott’s Babbler couple excited. They can no longer calm down with warnings and singing their songs.
I’ve been watching the edge of the forest right behind my chalet at the Mutiara Resort in Taman Negara for a long time. I also put out mealworms. But apparently no one has been on them the whole time. A pity. The so-called hides in Taman Negara National Park are not what you imagine a hiding place to be. They are more like observation towers. They are built as high as towers. That has its own charm, but a hide looks different.
But the veranda of the nice chalets here at the Mutiara Resort in Taman Negara is like a little hideout. The chalets all have low roof gables. This enables good, quite hidden views of the bird world of the Taman Negara National Park.
To cope with the growing demand for top shots of the rarer species of the Palearctic Bird-Lens is keen to enrich the range of pictures of birds you can find in the western palearctic. Trips to remote places like this one to capture images not only of rare birds of western palearctic were very successful. The nice image of the blog is only a first impression, what you will find in the gallery in the “Picture Shop” very soon. Just give bird-lens.com a message, if bird-lens.com could serve you with an image needed before the new pictures are online.