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Sabah trip 18-26 July

Traveled to Sabah on 18-26July. Here are some recorded photos. Timpohan gate was pretty good for birds on the early morning.

Below are some special bird species found at Mt. Kinabula.
Red-breasted Partridge - four along the power station road
Maroon Woodpecker - timpohon gate
Black-breasted Fruit-hunter - timpohan gate
Pale-faced Bulbul (new spit from Flavescent Bulbul) - timpohan gate
Sunda Cuckoo-shrike - timpohon gate
Sunda Laughingthrush - timpohon gate
Bornean Whistling Thrush - timpohon gate
Mountain Black-eye - timpohon gate, often seen in small flock
Bornean Stubtail (sciencetif name as [i]Urosphena white-headi[/i], the only bird we saw named for whitehead's) - silau-silau trail
Temminck's Babbler - botanical garden
Little Pied Flycatcher - reception office
Black-sided Flowerpecker - reception office
Chestnut-crested Yuhina - many around
Golden-naped Barbet - many around
Bornean Whistler - many around

Many mammals at Mt. Kinabula especially squirrel. Also seen Shew-faced Ground Squirrel [i]Rhinosciurus laticaudatus[/i], Whitehead's Pygmy Squirrel [i]Exilisciurus whiteheadi [/i](mammal named for whitehead's) and Plain Pigmy Squirrel [i]Exilisciurus exilis [/i]inside the park.

Some insects and amphibians and reptiles from Mt. Kinabula.

unknown snake, seems like our local species - [i]Cylindrophis ruffus[/i]. May be the bornean species under this genus.

We also went to Poring Hot Spring. Not so many birds there but so many people there. Just got some special birds as following …

Dusky Munia
Yellow-rumped Flowerpecker
Orange-bellied Flowerpecker
Purple-naped Sunbird
Brown-throated Sunbird
Little Spiderhunter
Grey-breasted Spiderhunter
Rufous-tailed Tailorbird
Yellow-bellied Warbler
Horsfield's Babbler
Yellow-bellied Bulbul
Hairy-backed Bulbul
Yellow-vented Bulbul
Cream-vented Bulbul
Green Iora
Common Iora
Greater Green Leafbird
Black-headed Bulbul
Rufous Woodpecker
Crimson-winged Woodpecker
Yellow-crowned Barbet
Rufous Piculet
Zebra Dove
Raffles's Malkoha

Other wildlife in poring hot spring

Finally, we tried to find wildlife around Kota Kinabula, and we went to the wetland park for birding and want to the Manukan Island for finding the Tabon Scrubfowl (two were seen along the footpath).

Special birds as following:
Striated Heron
Brahminy Kite
White-bellied Sea Eagle
Little Green Pigeon
Pink-necked Green Pigeon
Green Imperial Pigeon
Blue-eared Kingfisher
Collared Kingfisher
Pied Fantail

Thanks for Geoff Welch for lending the cannon lens for us . Thanks!

Hi George,
Congratulations ! This is great ! Really like the frogs, but we did not see many around.

PWMK

Thanks for sharing George!! Your wildlife photos are excellent!!3551d5f02ecd445 Your unknown snake looks very much like a Red-tailed Pipe Snake [i]Cylindrophis ruffus[/i], but I am not 100% sure.3551a50445

hi pwmk,
thanks... i think you can find many frogs at Danum valley. i will be there next time.
george

hi matthew,
I think our hk reptiles book did'nt update the name. [i]Calamaria septentrionalis [/i]should be [i]Cylindrophis ruffus[/i]，(Laurenti， 1768). Two species of [i]Cylindrophis[/i] and two species of [i]Anomochilus[/i] are known from Borneo. The two in genus [i]Anomochilus[/i] do not have 'red tail'. I suppose the snake is possibily the [i]Cylindrophis lineatus[/i]，Blanford，1881, but i don't have more references for the ID. In Stuebing, 1994: 967, "[i]Cylindrophis lineatus [/i]in the sarawak museum are indistingishable from [i]C. rufus [/i]taken from the same collection."

general information from
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindrophiidae[/url]
STUEBING, R. A new species of Cylindrophis (Serpentes: Cylindrophiidae) from Sarawak, Western Borneo. Pp. 967-973. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.
[url]http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/42/42rbz967-973.pdf[/url]
SMITH, L.A. & SIDIK, I. Description of a new species of Cylindrophis (Serpentes: Cylindrophiidae) from Yamdena Island, Tanimbar Archipelago, Indonesia. Pp. 419-424. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.
[url]http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/46/46rbz419-424.pdf[/url]
Anomochilus weberi image
'http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/mousetrap/resources/Grzimek_herps/Anomochilidae/Anomochilus_weberi.jpg
Anomochilus leonardi image
'http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/mousetrap/resources/Grzimek_herps/Anomochilidae/Anomochilus_leonardi.jpg

george

Add one more photo. Just a game.
Can you find something in the photo??? Not difficult.

The answer is a leaf-katydid (Orthoptera: subfamily Pseudophyllinae Burmeister, 1838).