GREAT EGRET

 

Photographed at Kampong Phluk Floating Village, Siem Reap, Cambodia, November 2023

(* 214)              GREAT EGRET                    Ardea alba

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Migrant to coastal mudflats, mangroves, estuaries, water bodies with well-vegetated fringes and occasionally wet grasslands. 91 cm. Distribution: widespread across much of Americas, Eurasia, Africa and Australia; most northern populations migrate to winter in the tropics.

EASTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL

Photographed on outskirts of Siem Reap, Cambodia, November 2023

 (* 896)                  EASTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL              Motacilla tschutschensis

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Common migrant to open habitats, including wet grasslands, golf courses, playing fields and bare ground, usually near water. 18 cm. Breeds across C and E Siberia, Mongolia, NE China, Japan to W Alaska; winters in S China, Taiwan and much of Southeast Asia, east to New Guinea and Australia.

WHISKERED TERN

 

Photographed at Kampong Phluk Floating Village, Siem Reap, Cambodia, November 2023

(* 409)       WHISKERED TERN           Chlidonias hybrida

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Largest marsh tern, 25-27 cm, wingspan 70 cm. Found in vegetated and open wetland; brackish, saline lakes; saltfields, irrigated land, sewerage ponds. C. h. hybrida breeds in warmer parts of Europe and the Palearctic (northwestern Africa and central and southern Europe to southeastern Siberia, eastern China and south to Pakistan and northern India). The smaller-billed and darker C. h. delalandii is found in east and south Africa, and the paler C. h. javanicus from Java to Australia.

ORIENTAL MAGPIE-ROBIN

 

Photographed at Tuol Sleng, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, November 2023

(* 893)                  ORIENTAL MAGPIE-ROBIN                      Copychus saularis

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Found in gardens, orchards, plantations, secondary woodlands and mangroves, extends to edges of logged forests, cultivation and forested riverbanks. 20 cm. Resident throughout Indian sub-continent, southern third China and SE Asia to Peninsula Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Bali and most of Philippines.

SCALY-BREASTED MUNIA

 

Photographed near Siem Reap, Cambodia, November 2023

(* 712)              NUTMEG MANNIKIN             Lonchura punctulata

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Also known as Spice Finch, Spice Bird, Scaly-breasted Munia or Scaly Breasted Mannikin. Found in grasslands, crops, rank roadside growth urban wastelands, lantana thickets, vineyards. 10.5-11.5 cm. Range: native from India to s. China, Malaysia, Philippines to e. Indonesia.

RED-BREASTED PARAKEET

 

Photographed at Ankor Wat, Cambodia, November 2023

(* 889)                  RED-BREASTED PARAKEET             Psittacula alexandri

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Found in secondary scrub, old plantations and parkland, occasionally straying into urban green spaces. 36 cm. Himalayan foothills, NE India, S China, mainland Southeast Asia, Borneo, Java.

PIN-STRIPED TIT-BABBLER

 

Photographed at Arey Ksat, Cambodia, November 2023

(* 930)                  PIN-STRIPED TIT-BABBLER              Macrons gularis

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Common in primary and secondary forests, forest edges, scrub, old plantations, occasionally in gardens and mangroves. 13 cm. Distribution: Himalayan foothills and NE India, S China, mainland Southeast Asia, Thai-Malay peninsula, Sumatra.

BLACK-WINGED CUCKOO-SHRIKE

 

Photographed at Arey Ksat, Cambodia, November 2023

1326             BLACK-WINGED CUCKOO-SHRIKE            Coracina melaschistos (Lalage melaschistos)

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Also known as lesser grey cuckooshrike or dark grey cuckooshrike, is a species of cuckooshrike found in South to Southeast Asia.  Breeds in deciduous and broad-leaved evergreen forest but winters in open forest, groves, singly or in pairs.

WHITE-RUMPED SHAMA

 

Photographed in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, November 2023

(*  1044)                WHITE-RUMPED SHAMA                 Copsychus malabaricus

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Founds in forests. 22 cm. Common in SE Asia: Rare to locally fairly common breeding resident from lowlands up to mid hills, mainly in dry lowlands.

OLIVE-BACKED SUNBIRD

 

Photographed at Arey Ksat, Cambodia, November 2023

(* 2)                  OLIVE-BACKED SUNBIRD               Nectarinia jugularis

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Also known as Yellow-bellied Sunbird. Found in open woodlands and disturbed habitats. 11 cm. Range: oriental region and east into Australia; widespread and common resident throughout the Indonesian archipelago.

TAIGA FLYCATCHER

Photographed at Arey Ksat, Cambodia, November 2023

1325                     TAIGA FLYCATCHER               Ficedula albicilla

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The Taiga Flycatcher, also known as Red-throated Flycatcher (Ficedula albicilla) is a migratory bird It breeds in northern Eurasia from eastern Russia to Siberia and Mongolia. It is a winter visitor to South and South-east Asia in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Vietnam, and Japan. Its natural habitat is taiga forest. It is a rare vagrant to western Europe.

COMMON TAILORBIRD

 

Photographed at Arey Ksat, Cambodia, November 2023

(* 907)             COMMON TAILORBIRD               Orthotomus sutorius

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 Songbird found across tropical Asia.  Insectivorous. Tailorbirds are found singly or in pairs, usually low in the undergrowth or trees, sometimes hopping on the ground. They forage for insects and have been known to feed on a range of beetles and bugs. They are attracted to insects at flowers and are known to favour the inflorescences of mango. They also visit flowers such as those of Bombax, Salmalia for nectar and are sometimes covered in pollen, giving them a golden-headed appearance

GREY-HEADED CANARY FLYCATCHER

 

Photographed at Arey Ksat, Cambodia, November 2023

(* 977)               GREY-HEADED CANARY FLYCATCHER             Culicicapa ceylonensis

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This species breeds in upland to montane oak (Quercus) and other broadleaved forests and similar wooded areas in temperate to tropical southern Asia, from Pakistan, Central India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia and southern China. 

BLACK-WINGED KITE

 

Photographed at Arey Ksat, Cambodia, November 2023

(* 349)           BLACK-WINGED KITE       Elanus caeruleus

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Also known as Black-shouldered Kite, once considered as part of one species with Australian Black-shouldered Kite and the White-tailed Kite of North and South America. Ranges open land and semi-desert in sub-Saharan Africa and tropical Asia, and established in Spain and Portugal, expanding in southern Europe. 

ASIAN BROWN FLYCATCHER

Photographed at Arey Ksat, Cambodia, November 2023

 (* 917)                  ASIAN BROWN FLYCATCHER              Muscicapa dauurica 

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Found in primary and secondary forest, mangroves, forest edge, scrub, old plantations, parkland and even urban greenspaces. 13 cm. breeds across C Siberia and the Russian Far East, south to NE China, Korea and Japan; winters across S India to Southeast Asia, Thai-Malay Peninsula, Greater Sundas and Philippines; non-migratory populations occur inIndian sub-contijnet, mainland Southeast Asia and Borneo.

CAMBODIAN TAILORBIRD

 

Photographed at Arey Ksat, Cambodia, November 2023

1324                  CAMBODIAN TAILORBIRD                Orthotomus chaktomuk

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Endemic to Cambodia, likely confined to a single dense shrub habitat in the floodplain of the Mekong river. It was first discovered and recorded by scientists in 2009 in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, during avian influenza checks. In 2013, it was determined to be a unique species and formally described. It is a very small bird, about 10 cm long, with an orange-red tuft on its head.