Thursday, 8 November 2018

White-eye 3/3 - Black-capped White-eye (Lifer 511 - Bornean 20/100)


This black-capped is a sure see with the  endemic Yuhina when they feed together from tree to tree at KNP especially at the Cafeteria . You can encounter them daily but to shoot them is another story. Those guys who are digiscoping or using compact zoom camera like the Nikon P900 or Sony will endure  hard  time to photogragh them. 

Even with my Fuji XT-2 I was struggling to shoot them abet the opportunity of  open perch sighting is least of time ....... I would usually glue to my viewfinder and  anticipate the bird to pop out at open branch when follow their movement behind foliage. 

The Black-capped is endemic to Borneo and Sumatera side. It can reach a length between nine and eleven centimetres and looks slightly similar to the Oriental White-eye
of Peninsula Malaysia. The forehead and the crown are blackish and its upperparts and underparts are darker than at the Oriental white-eye. The back is olive green and the iris is brown. The bill and the feet are coloured black. The voice is characterized by soft twitters.


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