Taiwan Birding

Love it!

Now, and the next couple months may be best.

Muntjac (barking deer)

I think it’s a Common Sandpiper (磯鷸). Note the white shoulder bit.

Black Collared Starling (黑領椋鳥). Enjoy!

Yep, nice one!
Birding is for everywhere…with whatever gear you have.

Fighting can be good.

Get out. Make lists. Rejoice.

Pups don’t help.

I should have spent more time with these ones. Very confiding.

A well spent 5 minutes with cell-phone.

There were maybe 5 on this (recently rained-on) lawn.

Instead of eating turkey on Christmas Day, I spent a few minutes lying on this campus lawn with a Malayan Night-heron (黑冠麻鷺).

Brown is sexy.

Malayan Night-heron (黑冠麻鷺）

Do you have a Flamecrest on your🎄?

火冠戴菊鳥 #ONLYinTaiwan

Easy on the hair commentary!!!

I’ll take this as the lesson of the day.

Funnily, I pointed them out to a good friend’s mother yesterday too.

The world is complex.

Birds don’t have to be.

Black Bulbul (紅嘴黑鵯). Fairly common, look out for their red bills/feet, and 👂 miaowing.

Autumnal.

Taiwan Niltava (黃腹琉璃) and leaves.

A confession:

Despite really trying, I still don’t really understand #cricket 🏏.

But I delight in seeing friends’ immense joy in the sport.

Find a distraction. Celebrate other people’s harmless passions.

It doesn’t have to be #birding.

A daurian redstart adding her own touch of class to an art installation in Jinguashi.

Keep 👏 cats 👏inside!

And Taiwan Bush-warblers in bushes.

Look. It’s not how *you* look.

But how the #birds you look at look.

#Taiwan Barwing (紋翼畫眉) A looker.

Thanks for this (these) tips. Rings a bell.

Can you see the Asian House Martins (毛腳燕)?

Turkeys are so last week (and end of month nonsense).

Enjoy a Taiwan Bamboo-partridge (#台灣 竹雞) now. #onlyInTaiwan #birds

Yes. Biggish

Can you spot this Moonworld (月世界) Crested Serpent-eagle (大冠鷲)?

Scent ducts. Normal.

Oh dear, deer confusion.

#Taiwan’s 3 #deer species. All native.

Reeve’s Muntjac (Barking Deer 山羌) small, widespread)
Sambar (水鹿). Only in high 🏔️ & on money.
Sika (梅花鹿). Now only Kenting area.

AND NOT A DEER:
Taiwan Serow (台灣長鬃山羊) more closely related to antelope. Not a goat either!
#mammals

Let’s hope so.