[viator]

Appreciate confirming the id's of these taken Gunung Brinchang on the 29th June.

[viator]

Another image of the last bird

[Papuan birder]

The first photograph looks like a Pygmy Wren Babbler (Pnoepyga pusilla harterti).

[rockfowl]

Bit confused (not unusual), my first thought was Pygmy Wren Babbler for image 1 but there's more tail than I was expecting ? - http://orientalbirdimages.org/birdim...148&pagesize=1

4/5 - female Black and Crimson Oriole

[Gretchen]

Hmm, none of the OBC pictures show any tail feather extension - could this just be an unusual movement, or does the pygmy really not have this kind of tail feather (muscle) at all? I don't know the range (or much else ) about rufous- throated wren babbler - but could this pic be a rufous-throated??

[Papuan birder]

Originally Posted by Gretchen

Hmm, none of the OBC pictures show any tail feather extension - could this just be an unusual movement, or does the pygmy really not have this kind of tail feather (muscle) at all? I don't know the range (or much else ) about rufous- throated wren babbler - but could this pic be a rufous-throated??

The Rufous-throated Wren Babbler (S. caudatus, assuming you mean this one?) is found in parts of Eastern Nepal and north-eastern India. No chance to find that one anywhere in Malaysia aim afraid.

[rockfowl]

Originally Posted by Gretchen

Hmm, none of the OBC pictures show any tail feather extension - could this just be an unusual movement, or does the pygmy really not have this kind of tail feather (muscle) at all? I don't know the range (or much else ) about rufous- throated wren babbler - but could this pic be a rufous-throated??

Unfortunately endemic to the Indian sub-continent, but I Know here you're coming from. Interested to know, re PB if harterti is that different? The only image I've found is a front on fledgling..

[Papuan birder]

Originally Posted by rockfowl

Unfortunately endemic to the Indian sub-continent, but I Know here you're coming from. Interested to know, re PB if harterti is that different? The only image I've found is a front on fledgling..

I have only had some poor views of the harterti race (in the Cameroon Highlands) and apart from the few shots over at OBI I have not been able to find any other of this subspecies. Would be good with some more inputs on this bird.

[viator]

For what its worth when I first saw this it was a distant view whilst walking down the road and I thought it was a Pygmy Wren Babbler (the questionable tail wasn't visible). I took this heavily cropped image from much closer at the moment a car lower down the mountain sounded its horn and the bird hopped on to the rock - it then went straight into the bushes and disappeared so unfortunately I have no more shots of it.

Since no one has mentioned the 2nd and 3rd shots I assume these are a female Snowy-browed Flycatcher and female Black-throated Sunbird?

[rockfowl]

Originally Posted by viator

Since no one has mentioned the 2nd and 3rd shots I assume these are a female Snowy-browed Flycatcher and female Black-throated Sunbird?

I would agree with both.