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.

Saturday, 13 October 2018

A Drongo migrant

Another migrant sighted in Bukit Kiara is the Crow-billed Drongo.  Being a forest bird, it'll probably be seen in the bukit only, or it could be a passage migrant.  Going by its spotted underpart, it looked like an immature.  This Drongo comes from India, Nepal or even Northern Thailand and feeds mainly on insects.  In fact when it was sighted, there was also a flock of brown morph Amur Paradise Flycatchers about, and the noise and flappings generated by these birds suggested that a territorial dispute was going on as both birds feed on the same.




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