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[Oversea] Sabah trip 18-26 July

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1^# A A A Post at 15/08/2009 00:25 Show author

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 Urosphena white-headi, 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

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Mountain Wren Babbler (Borneo Endemic)

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Eye-browed Jungle Flycatcher

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Yellow-breasted Warbler

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Bornean Stubtail (Borneo Endemic)

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Bornean Whlistling Thrush (Borneo Endemic)

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Temmick's Sunbird

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Sunda Bush Warbler

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Sunda Bush Warbler

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Bornean Treepie (Borneo Endemic)

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Ochraceous Bulbul

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2^# A A A Post at 15/08/2009 00:30 Show author

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

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Kinabalu Squirrel Callosciurs baluensis

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Jentink's Squirrel Sundasciurus jentinki

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Bornean Mountain Ground Squirrel Dremomys everetti

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Brooke's Squirrel Sundasciurus brookei ?

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Mountain Giant Rat Sundamys infraluteus

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3^# A A A Post at 15/08/2009 00:43 Show author

Some insects and amphibians and reptiles from Mt. Kinabula.

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Phoxophrys cephalum (Mocquard, 1890)

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Phoxophrys cephalum (Mocquard, 1890)

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Cyrtodactylus baluensis (Mocquard, 1890), north Borneo Endemic

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unknown Kalophrynus sp

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Brown Bush Frog Philautus petersi

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Calvisia punctulata Redtenbacher, 1908

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Phenacephorus cornucervi Brunner, 1907

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4^# A A A Post at 15/08/2009 00:47 Show author

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

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5^# A A A Post at 15/08/2009 00:54 Show author

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

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White-rumped Shama borneo enedmic subsp stricklandii

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Hairy-backed Bulbul

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Dusky Munia - Borneo Endemic

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Prevost's Squirrel Callosciurus prevostii pluto

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6^# A A A Post at 15/08/2009 01:04 Show author

Other wildlife in poring hot spring

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Rafflesia keithii Meijer

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Rafflesia keithii Meijer

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Rafflesia keithii Meijer

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Malaysian Soft Shelled Turtle Dogania subplana (Geoffroy, 1809)

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Spiny Slender Toad Ansonia spinulifer

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Rough Guardian Frog Limnonectes finchi

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Hemidactylus frenatus Dumeril & Bibron, 1836

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Gonocephalus bornensis (Schlegel, 1848)

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Bronchocela cristatella (Kuhl, 1820)

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Aretaon asperrimus (Redtenbacher, 1906)

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Aretaon asperrimus (Redtenbacher, 1906)

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7^# A A A Post at 15/08/2009 01:12 Show author

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!

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White-breasted Wood-swallow

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Pink-necked Green Pigeon

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Green Imperial Pigeon

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Four-lined Tree Frog Polypedates leucomystax, southern side of KK

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8^# A A A Post at 15/08/2009 06:39 Show author

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

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9^# A A A Post at 15/08/2009 11:29 Show author

Thanks for sharing George!! Your wildlife photos are excellent!!

Your unknown snake looks very much like a Red-tailed Pipe Snake Cylindrophis ruffus, but I am not 100% sure.

As The Crow Flies- a Hong Kong Birding Blog
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10^# A A A Post at 15/08/2009 20:33 Show author

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

general information from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindrophiidae
STUEBING, R. A new species of Cylindrophis (Serpentes: Cylindrophiidae) from Sarawak, Western Borneo. Pp. 967-973. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.
http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/42/42rbz967-973.pdf
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.
http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/46/46rbz419-424.pdf
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