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Dear Onkel Tan,

UMEA SWEDEN 15/4/1992
This is the birdlist I promised you, I have changed a few details since i wrote the preliminary list in Sandakan, but this is the final version (and also the one I'll send). The species you should focus on is Storms stork (very rare everywhere) and Wrinkled Hombill (Lower Kinabatangan is the only place in Sabah where it's seen often). I do believe that your camp will attract a continueing flow of birdwatchers, especially now since Craig Wilson have visited the place. Well I finally learned how to move in dense jungle and did reach 282 species seen in Sabah, a result that I'm satisfied with.

These days in the jungle-camp stand out as some of the finest in seven weeks of traveling in Sabah. You and your staff deserves all appreciation possible.

Per Ekerholm

OBSERVATIONS AT UNCLE TAN'S JUNGLE CAMP

SPECIES		STATUS
Oriental darter Storms stork Lesser Adjutant Intermediate egret Little egret Little Green heron Black bittern Malayan Night heron Brahminy Kite Wallace's Hawk eagle Lesser Fish eagle Grey-headed Fish-eagle White-bellied Sea-eagle Crested Serpant-eagle Eurasian Kestrel White-breasted Water-hen Common Sand-piper Cinnamon-headed pigeon Grey Imperial Pigeon Blue-Crowned Hanging parrot Blue-throated Bee-eater Dollarbird Oriental Cuckoo Red-billed Malcoha Buffy Fish-owl White-bellied swiftiet Black-nest swiftlet Mossy-nest swiftiet Barn swallow Pacific swallow Storkbilled Kingfisher Black-capped Kingfisher Blue-eared Kingfisher Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher Common Kingfisher Wrinkled Hombill Wreathed Hombill Black Hombill Rhinoceros Hombill Pied Hombill Brown barbet Blue barbet Maroon Woodpecker Buff-necked Woodpecker Blackwinged Flycatcher-shrike Barwinged Flycatcher-shrike Grey wagtail White wagtail Common bra Black-headed bulbul Red-eved bulbul White-rumped shama Abbot's babbler Grey-headed babbler Red-headed Taylorbii~d Malaysian Blue flycatcher Plain flowerpecker Yellow-rumped flowerpecker Plain sunbird Pumped-throated sunbird Crimson sunbird Bronzed Drongo Greater Racket-tailed Drongo Dark-throated Oriole Slender-billed Crow		Abundant 2 Seen twice 2 Seen once Abundant Abundant Common 2 Seen once (juv) 1 Seen once Abundant 1 seen twice' Uncommon Common Common Common 1 seen once 1 seen twice Common Uncommon Uncommon Uncommon Common Uncommon 1 seen once 1 seen once Common Common Abundant Abundant Common Abundant Abundant Common Common Common Common Common Uncommon Common Common Common Uncommon Uncommon Uncommon Uncommon Common 2 seen once Common 1 seen once Common Common Common Uncommon Uncommon 2 seen once Uncommon Abundant Uncommon Common Common Uncommon Common Common Uncommon Uncommon Common

BAT-SPECIES IN THE CAVES OF TULUG
(The bats were caught in mist-nets and identified)
- Greater sheat-tailed bat
- Black-bearded Tomb-bat
- Fawn's roundleaf bat
- Creagh's horseshoe bat

This Bird-list is in no meaning complete, absence of jungle--experience and a non-working tape-recorder explains partly the absence of several of the species that are assumed to be present in the area, however, this list may add some grains of salt to the total picture of the bird communities in the Lower Kinabatangan area.

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