"A Home In The Park" - a story

 It started with an encounter, then a story, and now as a closure, it seems only appropriate to finally animate the story as a tribute to the birds of Taman Rimba Kiara (for it was where it first began), for all the ups and downs these birds have given birders, birdwatchers and photographers, their most memorable experiences.

https://rimbakiara.blogspot.com/2017/12/lesson-from-kites.html

And now to bring them 'alive'!

Rusty-naped Pitta

 Passeriformes - Picidae - Hydrornis oatesi (Burung Pacat Tepus)

Relatively dull for a pitta, but subtly attractive nonetheless. Algae green above and dirt brown below, with a soft orange nape and a thin black line behind the eye. Female is duller than the male. Like other pittas, shy and difficult to see, hopping about and foraging on the ground, typically under thick cover. This species prefers deep and densely wooded ravines and gorges, from which its repeated explosive “chom-WIT!” can occasionally be heard.

(eBird)

Name it and there are one and a thousand wants; Nameless what is want?

Short-tailed Babbler

 Passeriformes - Pellorneidae - Pellorneum malaccense (Kekicau Ekor Pendek)

Long-legged babbler with an almost nonexistent stump for a tail, found in primary and secondary evergreen lowland and foothill forest. Warm brown overall with paler underparts and a gray face with slightly moustached appearance. Upright stance and general profile make it seem almost pitta-like. Forages on or very close to the ground. Not as social as other forest babblers: typically encountered singly or in pairs. Calls are often dry and insect-like or mechanical. Song comprises a beginning phrase of dry chattering notes and a series of around half a dozen descending whistles.

(eBird)

Can you see it with no Name; what is it with no Name?

White-crowned Forktail

 Passeriformes - Muscicapidae - Enicurus leschenaulti (Cegar Ubun Putih)

A typical forktail, with piebald plumage and long tail. Like most other forktails, it inhabits shaded whitewater streams, along which it perches on boulders and low-hanging branches. Unmarked black back distinguishes it from Slaty-backed and Spotted forktails. Can be confused with Black-backed Forktail, but unlike that species, white does not extend behind the eye. Often detected by its vocalizations, a harsh buzzing whistle and high metallic whistles.

(eBird)

Who name it, who call it out?

Can you not want it?

Pacific Swallow

  Passeriformes - Hirundinidae - Hirundo javanica (Layang-layang Biasa)

Common swallow of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, often in cities and towns as well as above fields, lakes, and forests. Adult iridescent blue above and grayish buff below, with orangish throat and forehead. Similar to Barn Swallow, which has longer outer tail feathers and a dark line separating the throat and breast, lacking in Pacific. Frequently perches on telephone lines, often with other swallow species.

(eBird)

At ease is where I choose to be, no matter where.

Rufous-browed Flycatcher

 Passeriformes - Muscicapidae - Anthipes solitaris (Sambar Kening-karat)

Unique-looking flycatcher with a gleamingly clean white throat and a strong rusty orange tinge to the brow and forehead. Overlaps with closely related White-gorgeted Flycatcher but lacks that species’s gray face and black border to the white throat patch. Inhabits foothill and montane forests, where it forages close to the ground in lower vegetation. Both flycatches and gleans for prey more actively. Song is a high, thin series of whistles; a simple version is “tee-tee-tew’, to which additional phrases may be added. Vocal for a flycatcher, and calls often, giving harsh rattles, chips and chiks, and high thin notes.

(eBird)

Even the smallest count in cycle of more and less.

Streaked Spiderhunter

 Passeriformes - Nectariniidae - Arachnothera magna (Burung Kelicap Jantung Gunung)

A large and noisy inhabitant of tropical and subtropical hill forests. Distinctive in its range; a large spiderhunter with a long, curved black bill and black streaking all over its yellow-green upperparts and lighter yellow underparts. Gleans invertebrates from foliage, but also hovers around and probes into flowers for nectar. Often moves with mixed flocks. Calls frequently, giving a loud, decisive-sounding “chitick, chitick!”.

(eBird)

Who look back, who move back, who stay back - yet time turns not back?