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Barred Eagle Owl

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I'd like to request the green broadbill bird

Have you seen the green broadbill (Calyptomena viridis)?

I have now

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Yes, irl

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Voting ended onApr 15, 2025

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Semang are Negrito of the Malay Peninsula.

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Happy #WorldBinturongDay!

This watercolor is from the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings, a collection of 477 images of native biota of the Malay Peninsula by anonymous Chinese artists commissioned between 1803-18:

Binturong, c. 1803-1818 Anonymous Chinese artist William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings National Museum of Singapore

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ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for World Binturong Day – ART HISTORY ANIMALIA

The Binturong, also known as the Bearcat (Arctictis binturong, the only living member of its genus) is a member of the Viverridae family, a

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Is the peacock-pheasant’s iridescent plumage more than meets the eye?

The species pictured above is the Malayan peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron malacense), a very rare bird native to South East Asia, found in the lowland forests of the Malay Peninsula.

Image credit: Danny Ye/Alamy Stock Photo

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RHINOCEROS HORNBILL Buceros rhinoceros ©Laura Quick

The rhinoceros hornbill is predominately black, with white legs and vent and a white tail with a black band. The huge bill and casque are orange and red, the colour coming from preen oil rubbed on from the preen gland above the tail. The eyes of the male are red with black rims, and white with red rims in the female.

It faces a number of threats, including loss of its rainforest habitat, as well as hunting for its meat, and its skull and feathers. Habitat destruction has led to the loss of the large trees the species requires for breeding, which in turn makes it easier for poachers to find the rhinoceros hornbill. It is frequently shot at by poachers due to confusion with the highly sought-after helmeted hornbill. Due to this, the species was uplisted to vulnerable from near threatened on the IUCN Red List in 2018.

It is found in lowland and montane, tropical and subtropical climates and in mountain rain forests up to 1,400 metres in Borneo, Sumatra, Java, the Malay Peninsula, Singapore, and southern Thailand.

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Is the peacock-pheasant’s iridescent plumage more than meets the eye?

The species pictured above is the Malayan peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron malacense), a very rare bird native to South East Asia, found in the lowland forests of the Malay Peninsula.

(Image credit: Sham Edmond/Wikimedia)

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House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng - a Book Review

W. Somerset Maugham is one of those writers who has always held a place on my to-read list but I have just never gotten around to reading him. That’s a real pity, because I feel that familiarity with his work would have been quite helpful in the reading of this novel. In part, it is an imagining of the people and historical events to which he was exposed on his trip to Malaysia in the 1920’s that…

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