Site Report: Tempasuk Plain
View of Mount Kinabalu
Long-toed Stint (Calidris subminuta)
Buff-banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis)
Ornate Sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis)
Striated Grassbird (Cincloramphus palustris)
Black-backed Swamphen (Porphyrio indicus)
Lesser Coucal (Centropus bengalensis)
Long-tailed Shrike (Lanius schach)
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View of Mount Kinabalu
Long-toed Stint (Calidris subminuta)
Buff-banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis)
Ornate Sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis)
Striated Grassbird (Cincloramphus palustris)
Black-backed Swamphen (Porphyrio indicus)
Lesser Coucal (Centropus bengalensis)
Long-tailed Shrike (Lanius schach)
Wetlands
Visits
- 2023-03-18: Drove around the swamp some more to see if we could see anything missed last time.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (47 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(47 records)
Class: Birds
(47 records)
- Order: Anseriformes
(1 record)
- Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
- Wandering Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna arcuata)
- Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies (6 records)
- Order: Cuckoos
(1 record)
- Family: Coucals
- Lesser Coucal (Centropus bengalensis)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons (3 records)
- Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies
(2 records)
- Family: Hawks, Eagles, and Kites
- Black-winged Kite (Elanus caeruleus)
- Brahminy Kite (Haliastur indus)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts (3 records)
- Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots
(2 records)
- Family: Bee-eaters
- Blue-throated Bee-eater (Merops viridis)
- Family: Kingfishers
- Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
- Order: Pelicans
(14 records)
- Family: Coursers
- Oriental Pratincole (Glareola maldivarum)
- Family: Herons
- Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
- Gray Heron (Ardea cinerea)
- Great Egret (Ardea alba)
- Javan Pond-Heron (Ardeola speciosa)
- Striated Heron (Butorides striata)
- Yellow Bittern (Botaurus sinensis)
- Cinnamon Bittern (Botaurus cinnamomeus)
- Eastern Cattle Egret (Ardea coromanda)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
- Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
- Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola)
- Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
- Long-toed Stint (Calidris subminuta)
- Order: Perching Birds
(12 records)
- Family: Bulbuls
- Yellow-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus)
- Chestnut Munia (Lonchura atricapilla)
- Family: Old World Warblers and Gnatcatchers
- Striated Grassbird (Megalurus palustris)
- Family: Prinias and Apalis
- Yellow-bellied Prinia (Prinia flaviventris)
- Family: Shrikes
- Long-tailed Shrike (Lanius schach)
- Family: Starlings and Mynas
- Asian Glossy Starling (Aplonis panayensis)
- Family: Sunbirds
- Ornate Sunbird (Cinnyris ornatus)
- Family: Swallows
- Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
- Pacific Swallow (Hirundo javanica)
- Family: Wagtails and Pipits
- Paddyfield Pipit (Anthus rufulus)
- Family: Woodswallows, Bellmagpies and Allies
- White-breasted Woodswallow (Artamus leucorynchus)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies
(3 records)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybrida)
- Family: Painted-Snipes
- Greater Painted-snipe (Rostratula benghalensis)
- Family: Plovers
- Pacific Golden-Plover (Pluvialis fulva)