Christmas was quite a slow this year but a sober christmas for once. Spent the Chritmas Eve with my youngest brother and addition to that my parents from Sandakan came to visit us too.
No birding since the last barred tailed godwit.
Quite slow but work seem to pick up momentum.
Preparing next year work and also birding trip, maybe to Manila or China.
Not sure yet, but will choose one destination.
**Wishing all Birders and Photographers "Happy New Year and Happy Birding"
26 December 2007
13 December 2007
Barred tailed godwit - Limosa lapponica
Received SMS text from Jason aka Harokuro 0917am, barred tailed godwit at near Tg Aru.
Drop everything when looking for him and other birder's, Andrew and Karim. I did not brought
my scope or bino but good friend Jason allowed me to use his scope.
Beautiful bird, my first godwit for this year. There were others birds too, Chinese egret , Greater egret, Pacific reef egret, Grey-tailed tattler, Whimbrel.
Thanks Guys.
This winter visitor is commonly migrate to New Zealand as per information from Wikedia Commons.
Extract for reference:
Migration of the Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica.Bar-tailed Godwits have recently (March 2007) been shown to undertake the longest non-stop flight of any bird. Using satellite tracking, birds in New Zealand were tagged and tracked all the way to the Yellow Sea in China. According to Dr. Clive Minton (Australasian Wader Studies Group) "The distance between these two locations is 9,575 km, but the actual track flown by the bird was 11,026 km. This is the longest known non-stop flight of any bird. The flight took approximately nine days. At least three other Bar-tailed Godwits also appear to have reached the Yellow Sea after non-stop flights from New Zealand."
Drop everything when looking for him and other birder's, Andrew and Karim. I did not brought
my scope or bino but good friend Jason allowed me to use his scope.
Beautiful bird, my first godwit for this year. There were others birds too, Chinese egret , Greater egret, Pacific reef egret, Grey-tailed tattler, Whimbrel.
Thanks Guys.
This winter visitor is commonly migrate to New Zealand as per information from Wikedia Commons.
Extract for reference:
Migration of the Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica.Bar-tailed Godwits have recently (March 2007) been shown to undertake the longest non-stop flight of any bird. Using satellite tracking, birds in New Zealand were tagged and tracked all the way to the Yellow Sea in China. According to Dr. Clive Minton (Australasian Wader Studies Group) "The distance between these two locations is 9,575 km, but the actual track flown by the bird was 11,026 km. This is the longest known non-stop flight of any bird. The flight took approximately nine days. At least three other Bar-tailed Godwits also appear to have reached the Yellow Sea after non-stop flights from New Zealand."
04 December 2007
Blue Mountain
Kinabalu Mountain
Was taken 2 months ago while flying for Sandakan.
The pilot was quite sporting that day, gave us some appourtunity to snap some rounds before
the clouds covered it.
Was taken 2 months ago while flying for Sandakan.
The pilot was quite sporting that day, gave us some appourtunity to snap some rounds before
the clouds covered it.
03 December 2007
Lapwing
Been quite a good surprise for last week, grey headed lapwing sighted by horukuru. Lucky for him and we did try to look out for it but no luck.
The sighting of migrating birds in Sabah has been greet with members regularly posting and sms to others.
Picture of Grey headed http:www.horukuru.blogspot.com
Keep up the good work guys.
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