Birds and I

Oriental Magpie-robin is a juvenile. It is mostly seen close to the ground, hopping along branches or foraging in leaf-litter on the ground with a cocked tail. Males sing loudly from the top of trees or other high perches during the breeding season.

The mountain tailorbird found in China, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia.  Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

The female olive-backed sunbird builds the nest using grass, cotton, moss, lichens, leaf fragments, vegetable fibers, and spider webs, lined with bark or feathers.  The nest has the form of a hanging oval pouch with a sheltered side opening, and lays eggs in May and June.

It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

This species ranges from the eastern foothills of the Himalayas through northeastern India, southern China, mainland Southeast Asia to Sumatra and Borneo.  Its habitat is montane forest about 1,000–2,000m in elevation.

The black-nest swiftlet is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. Its saliva is one of the main sources of edible nests for bird's nest soup.

The scarlet-headed flowerpecker is endemic to a few islands of the archipelago of Indonesia. It mainly inhabits the islands of Java and Bali. A few individuals have been reported on Lombok and Sumatra islands, and in Southeastern Borneo. The breeding season of this species changes depending on the island and the region each individual inhabits.In West Java, the breeding season extends from Janua..

The scarlet minivet is found in tropical southern Asia from Northeast India to southern China, Indonesia, and the Philippines. They are common resident breeding birds in forests and other well-wooded habitats including gardens, especially in hilly country.

The species is widely distributed west from the Indian subcontinent and extending east across Southeast Asia.  Subspecies javanensis is smaller and found across the larger islands along the Malay Peninsula extending east to the Philippines.

Whitehead's trogon is endemic to the island of Borneo, where it is an uncommon resident in primary mountain forest.Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1888, who named it for British explorer and collector John Whitehead.  IUCN (International Union for Conservation) of Nature rates Whitehead's trogon as a near-threatened species.