Birds & Mammals Around Mutiara Taman Negara

The nice thing about staying at Mutiara Taman Negara is that it is located right inside the park so you don’t have far to go to see birds and animals.  Let’s start with meal times.  Sit outdoors and watch the birds while you eat.  The restaurant has a perfect vantage point where you can see both sides of the river.  I added the 1st two photos just to show the damage done by the floods of early 2015.

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Oriental Magpie-robin

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Squirrel

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Stork-billed Kingfisher

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Greater Coucal

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Sparrows

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Random birds in flight, photo not good enough for me to identify them but you do see lots of birds flying by the restaurant over the river.

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Blue-throated Bee-eater

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