Pitta's in Shah Alam (1 Viewer)

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Thijsdekruif

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• Feb 21, 2019

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Hi everyone,

Next week i will go to Malaysia. I decided to start at Shah Alam botanical park to find Hooded and Blue-winged Pitta. The blog-posts online talk about known sites,but where wthes are, i can't find on the internet. Can someone help me where to find the pitta's?

Kind regards,
Thijs

 

Andy Adcock

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• Feb 21, 2019

• #2

Isn't it oo early for Blue-winged?

 

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Thijsdekruif

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• Feb 21, 2019

• #3

As I understood, they winter in Malaysia. So its hopefully not too late.....

 

Andy Adcock

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• Feb 21, 2019

• #4

Thijsdekruif said:

As I understood, they winter in Malaysia. So its hopefully not too late.....

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Is Shah Alam in the wintering range?

They don't arrive in S Thailand until May if remember correctly and that's not so far away from Shah Alam?

 

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Thijsdekruif

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• Feb 21, 2019

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According to ebird the birds are only there in the winter. Fascinating, considering that the climate in Kuala Lumpur is not that different from south thailand.
Unfortunately on ebird it is impossible to find the exact location other than that the birds are somewhere in the park....

 

dwatsonbirder

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• Feb 21, 2019

• #6

Although of very limited use, I did find a reference to "2 streams" within the park where one observer was looking for Hooded. I suppose any shaded gullies with good leaf-litter either at dawn or dusk are the obvious starting points, and I remember Hooded being rather vocal on my previous trips to Asia.

Good luck!

 

Andy Adcock

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• Feb 21, 2019

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Thijsdekruif said:

According to ebird the birds are only there in the winter. Fascinating, considering that the climate in Kuala Lumpur is not that different from south thailand.
Unfortunately on ebird it is impossible to find the exact location other than that the birds are somewhere in the park....

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They won't be hard to find if they're calling.

 

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Thijsdekruif

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• Feb 22, 2019

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andyadcock said:

They won't be hard to find if they're calling.

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True, but do they call in their wintering range?

 

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Thijsdekruif

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• Feb 22, 2019

• #9

Also, thank you guys for helping!

 

Andy Adcock

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• Feb 22, 2019

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Thijsdekruif said:

True, but do they call in their wintering range?

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If they're resident, they may start calling in March (?) but it is early, try playing the call, Pitta's are often, very responsive.

Note that Pittas are known to reply to a tape once and then go silent, you think they've lost interest but they will often approach, silently after the first response and suddenly just appear.. Also note in regard to Blue-winged, that they can often be several metres up a tree so don't limit your searching to the ground if you hear one.

 

Last edited: Feb 22, 2019