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.

Thursday, 10 October 2024

'Flower-cuckoo'

The joy and vexation of photographing long-tailed birds, and such a welcome sight was this Green-billed Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus tritis) and its exquisitely long tail, and such was frustration too that normally came with it!

Malkohas are large birds in the cuckoo family Cuculidae. The group name is derived from the Sinhala word for the red-faced malkoha; mal-koha meaning flower-cuckoo.
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