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The Spectacled Flowerpecker bird which was first spotted 10 years ago in the jungles of Borneo has just been confirmed as a new — and totally unique — species.
The Kinabatangan region in northeastern Borneo has protected wildlife sanctuaries and wetland areas and is known for its biodiversity with more than 350 species of birds (at least a dozen of which ...
By Mongabay.com In the rainforests of West Kalimantan, in Indonesian Borneo, the Indigenous Dayak Iban listen to what they ...
First scientific description of elusive bird illuminates plight of Borneo's forests. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 10 / 191017141049.htm.
Long-Lost Babbler Bird Documented in Borneo for the First Time in Over 170 Years The animal was last recorded between 1843 and 1848, when a scientist collected the first and only museum specimen .
Bird missing for 172 years rediscovered in Borneo rainforest View more articles tagged as Asia View more articles tagged as Species The Black-browed Babbler, widely considered by experts the ‘greatest ...
Borneo has lost nearly half of its forests over the last fifty years due primarily to logging and clearance for oil palm plantations. Timber was extracted to make lawn furniture, chopsticks, and ...
n the lush, lowland rainforests on the island of Borneo lives a rather common, drab brown bird called the Cream-vented Bulbul, or Pycnonotus simplex. In most of its range, it has white eyes. On Borneo ...
To lure swiftlets, whose saliva-built nests fetch high prices in China, people in Borneo compete to build them the most luxurious accommodations: safe, clean, dark and with pools for bathing.
For the first time since its discovery more than 125 years ago, scientists have documented the Bornean subspecies of the Rajah Scops-Owl (Otus brookii brookii) in the montane forest of Malaysia's ...
“The culture of listening to omen birds is getting rare now, but we still view the birds as messengers in Sungai Utik,” says Hermanus Husin, 66, a Dayak elder from Sungai Utik.