Jay 2/2 Oct 2022 - Crested Jayshrike/Shrikejay (formerly called Crested Jay)

In term of color and crest the Bornean species is rather more beautiful in brown than our peninsula one which is plain  blackish. Its crest  tapered into a flair   and at times rounded one too.  It is rather responsive to our guide bird call and hover around our hide in Telupid for quite sometime. Apparently there were some feeding between a pair; whether its a parent feeding a juvenile or a mating ritual I really cannot say during the coming monsoon season here which is early this year.

I believe this beautiful Jay will be split from our peninsula subspecies but I will  record it as not a  lifer. Apparently I saw some photos of Thailand  they have the same chestnut color Crested Shrike jay (Platylophus galericulatus (Cuvier, 1816)