Birds and I

This is a light morph Pacific Reef Heron.  This is a darkt morph Pacific Reef Heron.

Temminck's sunbird is a species of sunbird. It is found in up to 1800 m altitude in Borneo, Sumatra, West Malaysia, and south west Thailand in tropical moist montane forests. This bird's common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch aristocrat and zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck.

The indigo flycatcher is found in Indonesia and Malaysia, where it is found in Sumatra, Java and northern montane areas of Borneo. Its natural habitat is tropical moist submontane montane forests between 900m to 3000m, where it is a common to fairly common species.

The white-breasted woodswallow is a medium-sized passerine bird which breeds from the Andaman Islands east through Indonesia and northern Australia. The breeding season of the white-breasted woodswallow varies throughout its range. In northern areas breeding usually occurs between March and May and in the southern ranges occurring between August and January, pre and during the wet season.  They ..

It is found in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapre, and Thailand.

The Oriental magpie-robin is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from Nepal, India, Sri Lanka and eastern Indonesia, Thailand, south China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Four or five eggs are laid at intervals of 24 hours and these are oval and usually pale blue green with brownish speckles that match the color of hay. The eggs are incubated by the female alone for 8 to 14 days.

The Oriental darter is a water bird of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia.The Oriental darter is found mainly in freshwater lakes and streams.

It may also be native to Borneo, Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, and the Philippine islands. The nest is built in a bush or tree or sometimes on the ground and sometimes on window ledges. One or two white eggs are laid and are incubated by both parents for 13 to 18 days.

The spotted dove or eastern spotted dove is a common resident breeding bird across its native range on the Indian subcontinent and in East and Southeast Asia. The species has become established in many areas outside its native range. These areas include Hawaii, southern California, Mauritius Australia and New Zealand.

Its natural habitats at tropical moist lowland and primary and secondary forest and cultivated areas with trees.  The IUCN Red List has assessed this bird as vulnerable with the population being estimated at 1,500 to 7,000 mature individuals.