Showing posts with label Cuckooshrike. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cuckooshrike. Show all posts

11 February 2026

Lesser Cuckooshrike

  Passeriformes - Campephagidae - Lalage fimbriata (Selancang-Kelabu Melayu)

Medium-sized gray bird (small for a cuckooshrike) with considerable geographic variation. Male averages darkest on the wings, throat, and breast, contrasting more heavily with the rest of the plumage than in the fairly uniform-looking male Indochinese Cuckooshrike. Female is pale gray with fine barring on the underparts. Undertail is black with white-tipped feathers concentrated at the end of the tail; does not appear as evenly graduated as in the larger Black-winged Cuckooshrike, and is less extensively white-tailed than Indochinese Cuckooshrike. Forages in the upper levels of forests and forest edge in lowland and hilly areas, often as part of mixed-species flocks. Song begins with a few clear tinkling notes, then transitions into a loud, insistent “jeh, jeh, jeh, jeh”.

(eBird)









A life always lived in vigilance, a survival, a lifestyle, a burdened wisdom.


04 August 2025

Lesser Cuckooshrike

 Passeriformes - Campephagidae - Lalage fimbriata (Selancang-Kelabu Melayu)


Medium-sized gray bird (small for a cuckooshrike) with considerable geographic variation. Male averages darkest on the wings, throat, and breast, contrasting more heavily with the rest of the plumage than in the fairly uniform-looking male Indochinese Cuckooshrike. Female is pale gray with fine barring on the underparts. Undertail is black with white-tipped feathers concentrated at the end of the tail; does not appear as evenly graduated as in the larger Black-winged Cuckooshrike, and is less extensively white-tailed than Indochinese Cuckooshrike. Forages in the upper levels of forests and forest edge in lowland and hilly areas, often as part of mixed-species flocks. Song begins with a few clear tinkling notes, then transitions into a loud, insistent “jeh, jeh, jeh, jeh”.
(eBird)




See, and miss, a pity; see, and dismiss, more the pity when truth reveals.



11 July 2025

Large Cuckooshrike

 Passeriformes - Camphagidae - Coracina larutensis (Selancang-Punai Besar Biasa)

A large gray cuckooshrike endemic to the hill and montane forests of peninsular Malaysia. Gray above with black primaries; also note strong, slightly hooked bill. Male has a darker face, while female generally has more apparent pale barring on the lower belly. Both sexes have a dark patch from the bill to slightly behind the eye, giving a masked impression. Call is a two-noted, rather nasal squeal-screech: “gii-yaak,” uttered in flight as well as from a perch. Formerly treated as a subspecies of “Large Cuckooshrike”, along with Oriental Cuckooshrike and Indian Cuckooshrike.








What the eyes see may not please for reality need not please.



27 May 2022

10 October 2021

Keep going




Going down is not falling
Looking back is not regret
A little of everything
fans life's glow.









 

17 May 2019

02 March 2017

"Have a worthy life."




“Have a worthy life.”

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