Muscicapidae series: Forktail | 鹟科: 燕尾 | liewwk Nature – 4-1 [update 20240327]

a family normally stay near a stream, river

1. Chestnut-naped Forktail, 栗枕燕尾, 栗頸燕尾, Enicurus ruficapillus, アカエリエンビシキチョウ, CEGAR TENGKUK MERAH

2. Slaty-backed Forktail, 灰背燕尾, Enicurus schistaceus, セアオエンビシキチョウ, CEGAR BESAR

3. White-crowned Forktail, 白额燕尾, Enicurus leschenaulti frontalis, エンビシキチョウ, CEGAR RAYA BIASA

4. Bornean Forktail, 婆罗洲燕尾, 婆羅洲燕尾, Enicurus leschenaulti borneensis, エンビシキチョウ, CEGAR RAYA BORNEO

 

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51. Sunda Forktail, 姬燕尾, 姬燕尾, Enicurus velatus, ヒメエンビシキチョウ

 

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1. Chestnut-naped Forktail, 栗枕燕尾, 栗頸燕尾, Enicurus ruficapillus, アカエリエンビシキチョウ, CEGAR TENGKUK MERAH

– the only non-black-white Forktail of Malaysia

– stay near the stream

update 202403

– it is an old picture, another not a good memory to have .. too many pressure to cause the chick fledged too earlier …. it still not really able to fly, fall into the river few times and safe back … can’t do much beside wish them good luck

– 久照片,不喜欢放“巢”有关照片(如果放 1.我绝对有信心没人会打扰 2.多余1年后吧)这鸟照,蛮不高兴的一刻。太多的打扰,逼得小鸟提早出巢。还不很会飞,几次跌进河。我们几个挚友希望他们安全。

202209, Sg Congkak, Selangor, Malaysia

 

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– it is one of the beautiful non black-and-white forktail here .. beautiful and shy as usual .. not that difficult to see it near the stream.

– 马来西亚蛮漂亮的燕尾,也是唯一不是黑+白的。蛮害羞,在溪边蛮容易看到的。

202403, Danum Valley, Sabah, Malaysia

 

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update 202211

– a long story short of the chick seem force to be fledged earlier than what it suppose. At the side with guests, the chick can’t even walk well.

– we keep distance to monitor, the parent keep feeding the chick and hope it can survive.

– 雏鸟还没成熟出巢。可是太多因素,它要提早出来。我们下午在河边遇到这鸟时。走路都还不稳。我们在哪观察了一会,只有祝福它可以安全成长。

202209, Ulu Langat, Selangor, Malaysia

update 202208

– a lovely bird and hope everyone shooting with own control. It is tame and no need chase it.

– a shy bird normally feed and live near clean water river.

– 非常漂亮的鸟,希望鸟人不用追它。他很乖的,我们坐着等就好。

– 非常害羞的鸟,通常都在清洁的小溪生活。

202208, Selangor, Malaysia

 

update 202105

– as other forktails, shy moving along the river.

– lucky to have this most beautiful forktail of Malaysia

– 通常很害羞,在河邊活動。

– 非常幸運的在封城前在吉隆坡附近拍到這鳥。

202105, Sg Congkak, Selangor, Malaysia

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Chestnut-naped Forktail, 栗頸燕尾,Enicurus ruficapillus

 

2. Slaty-backed Forktail, 灰背燕尾, Enicurus schistaceus, セアオエンビシキチョウ, CEGAR BESAR

– sub-montane , found near stream/rive longer tail and more grey instead black-white

Slaty-backed Forktail , 灰背燕尾 [Enicurus schistaceus]
3. White-crowned Forktail, 白额燕尾, Enicurus leschenaulti frontalis, エンビシキチョウ, CEGAR RAYA BIASA

– very shy bird to be photograph

– at Borneo, found lowland and montane mostly Bornean Forktail (depend checklist)

update 202403

– it is a bird that always avoid me, I didn’t got many chance to take photo of this common but shy bird. But this month within same tour, I got both Borneo-Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia-Pahang version … and surprise they are tame and allow us approach them ~10m

– 这一只普通害羞的鸟,跟我没什么缘分。几乎没拍过怎么样的照片,可是这个月的一个19天的观鸟团。尽然,给了我2个机会(婆罗洲+西马国家公园)而且时大概10米的。

202403, Danum Valley, Sabah, Malaysia

 

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4. Bornean Forktail, 婆罗洲燕尾, 婆羅洲燕尾, Enicurus leschenaulti borneensis, エンビシキチョウ, CEGAR RAYA BORNEO

– lowland Borneo look almost same like Bornean

– Peninsular Malaysia only White-crowned at lowland without Bornean

update 202403

– another bird that easy confuse and found at KNP, always found near road side and near stream

– 在神山就这一种,也蛮容易见到。在路旁或小溪旁都可以看到

202308, KNP, Sabah, Malaysia

 

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update 202308

– went here first morning, no bird around. 2nd visit make me able to captured some pictures before it flew away

– 第一天都没听到这鸟叫。今天,竟然让我拍几张照片。

202308, Sabah, Malaysia

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51. Sunda Forktail, 姬燕尾, 姬燕尾, Enicurus velatus, ヒメエンビシキチョウ

– as other forktail, a small and very shy bird. But it is a beautiful one with rufous head instead ovarall black-and-white.

– 与其他燕尾一样,都是很怕人。也很不一样,大部分燕尾都是黑+白

update 202312

– while we walking on the trail for Ground Cuckoo, this bird always infront us but keep a distance. We didn’t spent too much time for it as rushing for the main target

– 当我们赶去看地鹃的时候,这鸟一只就在我们前面。可是我们没太理会这鸟。大家心情都在地鹃哪了。

20231225, Sg Penuh, Sumatra.

 

 

 

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you just have to trust your tripod ….

… I trust my friend – tripod …

to capture a beautiful photo, it is not just skill, luck … but we need to have right tool … e.g. of condition below .. we really need to trust out friend – tripod … [my gear – Tripod – fotopro]

Fotopro PGC-78c – Bigger for wildlife, bird .. taller

Fotopro M-5mini PRO – easy to carry and pocket size …

FLM Fiction Ball head – stability, fiction control … firm angle without fall down after lock ball head

Fotopro CT-5A   – a new concept of tripod combine Mini M5 I share previously and MGA-584N … = CT-5A

Fotopro PGC 484 – a travel tripod only <850gram only (without ball head)

Fotopro T-series T64c/T74c/T83c  – new design better stability, better sand proof …

 

we have trust our tripod

 

 

Exposures Blending

While we shoot landscape, to get right exposures for both foreground and background (sky) .. it is just not too simple … as discussed previously , we can either

1. GND filter

2. black card method

3. HDR

4. Exposures blending (where we will discuss here)

 

e.g. of 2 pictures

exposures blending1
exposures blending2

– normally we refer same sky but just different exposures but for this example … I got same position but the cloud actually cover the Starry sky

– how I do Exposures Blending

i. normally I will shoot one foreground 1st with right iso, exposure and sometime with light painting

ii. continue shooting the sky or background

iii. use software masking or blending both picture together

Manual masking - exposures blending

***for how I mask the 2 pictures click old link here

another test used Photomatix “Exposures Fusion” option

Photomatix Blending

 

*** not much editing done on the post blending picture