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.

DOLLARBIRD

This photograph Sydney zoo but also photographed often in southern Queensland.

84     DOLLARBIRD        Eurystomus orientalis

Australia   (84)

The Dollarbird is a breeding migrant to Australia (Sept.-April) from PNG and e Indonesia. It is located on the edges of rain forests, woodlands, watercourses, wetlands and farmlands. Across the north of Australia Kimberleys and down east coast into Victoria. Distinctive 'kak kak kak kak kak' call.