Birding in Rengit - Aug 2012

Bukit Rengit or better known as the "Land of Trogons" among the birding community here is always a great place to see many exotic birds. After about an hour and 45 minutes of continous driving from KL, we reached the place at close to 8.00am. The road leading to the area was quite misty and luckily the sky clears up at around 9.30am. This time we saw quite a number of babblers and a few lifers. Unfortunately there were no calls of the Great Argus but we heard a few calls from a Red Junglefowl close to noon. Here are some of the better images taken in this trip.

We started birding from this Deer Land area.

A glimpse of the main trail which should be a comfortable walk. You can see birds from both sides of the road.

If you are a bit more adventures you may try some of the trails off the road side like this one. Although it looks quite dry but leech socks is certaintly required at these places.

Black Hornbill

Babbler? - nope  its a Rufous-Winged Philentoma (female)
as verified by the experts.

Buff-Necked Woodpecker (Male) - lifer

Sooty-Capped Babbler

You will likely hear this babbler rather than seen one.

Brown/Plain Throated Sunbird

Rufous-Crowned Babbler

Raffles's Malkoha (Female)

Blue-Eared Barbet

Yellow-Breasted Flowerpecker

Grey-and-Buff Woodpecker

Orange-Backed Woodpecker (Female)

Cream-Vented Bulbul

Black-Naped Monarch (Male)

Black-Naped Oriole (Female)

Black-Naped Oriole (Male)

Spectacle Spiderhunter

All in all we saw close to 30 species of birds in just about 5 hours of birding. It was surely a record for me and this also proves that Bukit Rengit can be visited at any time of the year for birding.

MNS should erect this signage at this place !