DOLLARBIRD

Photographed Langkawi, March 2017

(*  84)                  DOLLARBIRD                Eurystomus orientalis

MALAYSIA                15

Encountered in mangroves, beach scrub, plantations and open country, usually on prominent vantage points. 30 cm. Resident from India to Southeast Asia and Australia; populations ar augmented by migrants from the north.

ORIENTAL DOLLARBIRD

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

(see    84)     ORIENTAL DOLLARBIRD        Eurystomus orientalis

SINGAPORE        (6)

Common resident and migrant of secondary forests, forest edge, scrub, old plantations and parkland, occasionally in mangroves. 30 cm. Widespread across much of East India, E Asia to as far north as the Russian Far East, and Southeast Asia east to Australia and New Guinea.