Taman Rimba Kiara is a little green gem located in a corner of the TTDI residential area. The above flowering tree, the firmiana malayana or mata lembu, flashes in testimony to man's care-less-ness - it's one of only two trees in the park that had flowered, since then the tree had been chopped down.

Tuesday 3 May 2022

Trivial - for which its name

The Common Flameback Woodpecker that is also referred to as the Common Goldenback must have been named after the brilliant crimson or red flame bursting from its back, especially outstanding in the female, that minus the red crest of the male has the red flame leaps out at you when she spreads out. 
However this woodpecker does have an equally distinctive underpart, for which it could have been named otherwise?


"Then love knew it was called love
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your heart showed me my way"

Pablo Neruda









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