| Gallery of Bird and Wildlife Pictures |
| More Individual Bird Portraits...... (Oriental Region Birds) |
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| Little Forktail Enicurus scoulieri (2004) It is hard to imagine how a little bird like this fella could resist the gush of torrents of water on rapids and yet amazingly, it is able to do so. This bird, sketched from an individual at Kainchi, Sat-Tal (India) was perching on a boulder in the company of 2 other birds, a Plumbeous Redstart and a second species of forktail, the Spotted Forktail. Medium - Black pens |
| Schneider's Pitta Pitta schneideri (2003) This poorly known larger-than-life pitta was not seen for 80 years until its rediscovery on Gunung Kerinci (West Sumatra) in 1989. This sketch is of a solitary male seen on the main trail up the mountain. Instead of hopping about on the floor, this bird flew in after 3 whistled imitations of his call and landed on an eye-level branch, sending hearts pounding..... Medium - Black pens |
| Black-and-Red Broadbill Cymbirhynchus macrorhyncos (2004) This is a bird of river edges, with a habit of building its over-hanging nests on river-side trees. With a big head and a combination of gaudy red and black, it looks somewhat like an unlikely cartoon character. In Danum Valley Conservation area (Sabah), one can find this bird on trees by the Segama River. I found one bird on a river side tree behind the helipad there (DVFC). Medium - Black pens |
| Chestnut-bellied Partridge Arborophila javanica (2004) Partridges are among my favourite birds and this one is no exception, with its striking facial features and brilliant colours. This portrait is of a bird, part of a small family covey of 4 seen at Gunung Gede-Pangrango in West Java, feeding on the ground near a portion thickly vegetated with wild bananas. Actually, they are not really rare birds, their apparent scarcity is made so by their shyness. Medium - Black pens |
| 3 Waders, Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres), Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) and Mongolian Plover (Charadrius mongolus). (2003) 3 of Singapore's more colourful waders in their breeding plumages are depicted here and one place to see them all is on the Changi Coast beaches. Normally, i do not have a real fancy for waders, due to their drabness and their difficulty in identification, but the bright colours of these 3 birds made it a somewhat different experience in depicting waders. Medium - Colour pencils |
| Coming up soon end December....Bornean Bristleheads, a Javan Cochoa and Chestnut-necklaced Partridges + Malaysian Hill-Partridges in Action...... (in prep) |