8 Day Bird Photography Tour to Sabah Borneo
Borneo Birds Photography Tour itinerary ( Kota Kinabalu – Tambunan Forest- Kinabalu Park – Poring Hot Spring – Sepilok Forest – Kinabatangan River)
Day 1: Kota Kinabalu City Borneo Birds Photographing Tour
Borneo Birds Photographing Tour participants arriving Kota Kinabalu and heading to Tanjung Aru for local bird species. Overnight Kota Kinabalu
Target: Blue Naped Parrot, Long Tailed Paraket, White Breasted Woodswollow, Pied Triller, Green Imperial Pigeon, Pied fantail, Pink Neck Green Pigeon, sunda Pycgmy Woodpecker Etc
Day 2: Tambunan Forest Borneo Birds Photographing Tour
Early morning Borneo Birds Photographing Tour participants will depart to Tambunan forest (Gunun Alap) for morning birds photographing, afternoon heading to Kinabalu Park surrounding area for more bird species. Overnight around Kinabalu park
Target: chestnut hooded Laughingthrush, Indigo Blue Flycatcher, White Throated Fantail, Mountain Barbet, Bornean Treepie etc
Day 3: Kinabalu Park Borneo Birds Photographing Tour
Early morning Borneo Birds Photographing Tour participants will depart to Kinabalu Park for more bird species, especially for the Endemic hunting.
Overnight around Kinabalu Park
Target: Golden naped barbet, Mountail tailorbird, Mountain Blackeye, Mountain Leaf Warbler, yellow breasted warbler , Black capped white-eye, Temminck’s Sunbird and Black sided Flowerpecker etc.
Day 4: Kinabalu Park Borneo Birds Photographing Tour
In the early morning Borneo Birds Photographing Tour participants will depart to Kinabalu Park for missing species and obtained better photos, overnight Kinabalu Park.
Target: Whitehead Trogon, Whitehead Broadbill, Bornean Whistling thrush, Bornean short tailed Green magpie, Little pied flycatcher, Mountain Wren Babbler, Crimson headed Partridge, Sunda Cuckooshirke and chestnut crested Yuhina and etc.
Day 5: Sepilok forest Borneo Birds Photographing Tour
Early morning Borneo Birds Photographing Tour participants will depart to Poring hot spring lowland forest for different species of birds. Then heading to Sepilok Lowland Forest. Overnight around Sepilok.
Target: Scarly brested bulbul, black headed bulbul, Yellow rumped flowerpecker, green broadbill, banded broadbill, white crown shama, flavours chested flycatcher, black and yellow broadbill, bornean Spiderhunter and Red naped trogon.
Day 6: Sepilok rainforest Borneo Birds Photographing Tour
In the early morning Borneo Birds Photographing Tour participants will heading to Sepilok Rainforest Discovery Center for more bird species, afternoon birding around the sepilok for different species. Overnight Sepilok forest
Target: Red naped Trogon, Black and red Broadbill, Black crown Pitta, Bushy crested Hornbill, Copper throated Sunbird, Blue eared Barbet, Brown Barbet, Buff neck woodpecker etc.
Day 7: Sepilok rainforest Borneo Birds Photographing Tour
Early morning Borneo Birds Photographing Tour participants will birding around Sepilok forest, then heading to Kinabatangan river for more bird species, birding on the boat along the river. Overnight along kinabatangan River
Target: Storm Stork, Lesser adjutant stork, Oriental Pied hornbill, Black Hornbill, Rhinoceros Hornbill, Wrinkle Hornbill, Bushy crested hornbill, Malaysian Blue Flycatcher, Black and red Broadbill, Buffy fish-owl, etc
Day 8: Kinabatangan River Borneo Birds Photographing Tour
Borneo Birds Photographing Tour participants will do the morning river cruise then late afternoon another river cruise for birds photographing, manalso have opportunity to photograph some Endemic Mammals like Borneo Orangutan, Bornean Pygmy Elephants and Proboscis monkeys..Overnight along Kinabatangan River
Target: Storm Stork, Lesser adjutant stork, Oriental Pied hornbill, Black Hornbill, Rhinoceros Hornbill, Wrinkle Hornbill, Bushy crested hornbill, Malaysian Blue Flycatcher, Black and red Broadbill, Buffy fishowl, etc
Day 9 Sandan Borneo Birds Photographing Tour
Borneo Birds Photographing Tour participants will do another morning River cruise for more species then heading to Sandakan airport.end.
Target: Stork billed kingfisher, Blue eared Kingfisher, dusky broadbill, orang bellied flowerpecker, plain throated sunbird, brown Barbet and etc.