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Birding crème de la crème: Asia – Corbett to Taman Negara

10,000 Birds

Malaysia has 14 hotspots with more than 300 bird species, and I will focus here on #1 and #2, Fraser Hill (Bukit Fraser) and the Taman Negara National Park. Other wildlife includes Asian Elephant , Tiger and Gaur (highway 37 passes through the park and the rhinos and wild elephants can be spotted straying near the road).

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White’s Thrush or Scaly?

10,000 Birds

Since the non-migratory forms are less likely to stray and the two migratory races have both recently been split to White’s, this could be the deal breaker and the subsp toratugumi does lend a pleasing Japanese accent to the chase. toratugumi is the only one that gets a Japanese mention to the north of the archipelago. aurea and Z.d.

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