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Birds Of Malaysia: An Artist’s Love features some 130 prints of Yeow Teck Chai’s artworks. It is intended to highlight the rich varieties of birds in Malaysia across diverse habitats such as highlands, lowlands, coasts and wetlands. In his days as a happy-go-lucky youth, my friend Yeow Teck Chai was struck by the harmonious tweeting of birds emanating from the rainforests around Kuantan. As his inquisitiveness intensified, he became so absorbed that he began to impersonate his feathered friends by answering them with different bird calls. His interest in birds kindled, he reared a few species, like the common myna, spotted doves and zebra doves, at his home. ....
A Common Flameback Woodpecker which the writer saw at Taman Rimba Kiara, Kuala Lumpur. As a greenhorn in birding, my interest to learn more about the avian species is kept piqued by my good friend Dr Samuel Ong (Sam), a keen, knowledgeable and enthusiastic birder who keeps sending me pictures of birds that he photographs regularly. On March 30, Sam sent me a picture of a Lineated Barbet in flight. It was beautiful! Sam went on to tell me that the picture, as well as others, were taken at Taman Rimba Kiara (in KL), where the Barbet’s nest in a tree trunk was being monitored by birders, as the female made periodic visits to feed its newly hatched chick. ....