Tern - Whiskered Tern (Lifer 495)

 The Whiskered Tern is a few inches bigger than the Little Tern  as you can see from the picture. It beak is somewhat broader and tapering wherelse the Little and White-winged which have a rather narrow pointed beak. Majority of the Terns in Malim Nawar are the Little .

The breeding adult Whiskered will see its beak turning  reddish black with a dark cap

TERN - Black-naped Tern (Lifer no 494)

Record shot from the inside of   ferry to Pulau Tioman. The bluish tinge of the photo is because  of the tinted window.  I also have the opportunity to see a possible  Noddy or Shearwater but no  photo record.

I would advise that you book on line  the Catamaran Ferry (Cataferi) from Tanjung Gemuk which you can sit in the open deck to catch any pelagic birds on the way. Apparently there is a Pulau Burung where in July pass there will be thousands of pelagic birds gather there. Thats what they say......

The Black-naped Tern is a resident bird of the many islands off the Peninusla Malaysia They will like to hang around  rock boulder. At the small islet opposite Berjaya Resort you can see them at close quarters when you kayak across or when you go on the boat to snorkelling at the islet outcrop. You risk your gear from drowning though .............

They are good fish hunter especially anchovies on the surface of the water. See photo below one of them have a fish which it then  offer to its mate?

Pipit 4/5 - Red-throated Pipit (Lifer 493)

                               

A super find in Pulau Tioman during my company trip in month of April 2018 is this vagrant Red-throated Pipit. The brick red colored of its face to its throat  indicates its a maturing adult. I notice that its white and dark olived streak feathers is also prominent compared to the other pipits that I have seen in Peninsula.

It was a single bird foraging amongst half a dozen or more  Grey Wagtails on the golf course Hole 18.  As it was in the open and no cover I can only shoot from a far distance of 200ft. As I tried approaching nearer; it will just fly further away from me.

Avian Behaviour - Fighting Cock

Fighting Cocks in action over the rights to mate .Well size did not matter in this  encounter as the smaller  jungle fowl (left one) won the fight