Please note that Half day tours last approximately from 0630hrs to 1300hrs and Full day tours approximately from 0630hrs to 1900hrs

Currently limited to only 3 pax per trip (4 pax including guide - me) at this time. Inquire if you have a larger group and we can try to arrange to accommodate.

Includes - Private guide, pick up and drop off anywhere on Penang Island and mainland Butterworth, all transport costs (by 4WD and includes all fuel & highway toll) & chilled refreshments. (note - does not include lunch)

Contact me at tsechien@me.com or by calling +60124748354 if you are interested in booking a place.

4. Byram / Pulau Burung is an area of solid rubbish landfill lined with stagnant settling ponds and bordered by freshwater irrigation canals and plam oil estates. With the abundance of food in this area, it is a favourite stopover for many migrant species from egrets, herons, sandpipers, plovers to lapwings. There is also an adjacent area of largely old growth mangrove forest lining a bund with some tidal waterways where kingfishers, woodpeckers and barbets are aplenty.

- Byram (Pulau Burung) - actively used landfill, mangrove dirt track with agricultural canals, open grassland.

Species highlights - Wood and Marsh sandpipers, Common sandpipers, Common redshanks, Lesser sand plovers, Little ringed plover, Chinese & Javan pond herons. Little & Chinese egrets, Little Grebes, Lesser whistling ducks, 5 species of kingfishers (Collared, Stork billed, Common, White throated & Black capped kingfishers), Common & Pintail snipes, Ashy tailorbirds, Yellow bellied prinia, White browed crake, Slaty breasted rail, Blue tailed beeeaters, Brown & Tiger shrikes, Yellow bittern, Chestnut winged cuckoo, Dollarbird, Banded, Greater Flameback & Sunda pygmy woodpeckers, Large tailed nightjars.

Notes

This is only a sample itinerary, and the routes and timing may change according to local weather & environmental conditions, but the content of the trip will remain essentially the same as stated above.

The guiding for all my Guided Nature Photo Safaris are not outsourced. Be assured that I, myself will be personally leading each and every one of the tours offered on this website.

This is a Instructional Guided Photo Safari.

Have no concerns if you are a beginner bird photographer as there will be full on-hand instructions & tips on site on actual shooting techniques so that you can learn to take great pictures on the fly. I will be there to guide you on proper camera metering, WB and exposure settings, proper handling techniques for your setup and also advice on the compositional and creative aspects of bird photography. Tips on techniques & tools used in post capture image editing will also be available after hours.

The peak hours for bird activity in Penang & Kedah is from 0700hrs to 1100hrs and again from 1530hrs to 1700hrs.

All trips are available all year round, but prices may be adjusted for peak periods (school & public holidays).

Advance booking is required for adequate forward planning. Kindly allow minimum of 5 days prior to tour date.

Personal Travel Insurance

We strongly recommend that you purchase relevant & adequate travel insurance to cover your entire stay in Malaysia that includes this trip. Be assured that there is no high risk activity offered in this itinerary that is not covered by a standard travel insurance policy.

We can purchase travel insurance for you if you are not covered at an additional charge of MYR 70.00 per person.

Payment & Deposit

- Full payment can be made at pick up on the morning of the trip. Sorry, no personal cheques accepted.

Alternatively, advance payment can be made via fund transfer to any of the following bank accounts :

- Maybank (MBB) Account Number  : 107152135075

- CIMB Bank Account Number : 07140006886059

(note - all under account holder name ”CHOO TSE CHIEN”)

For convenience, payments and booking deposits can also be accepted in your local home currency using Paypal. Please request for conversion to your local currency for this.

Contact

Please contact me at tsechien@me.com or by calling +60124748354 (if in Malaysia, just dial 0124748354) if you are interested in getting a place on this this trip.

2. Penanti & Mengkuang - These following 2 locations are idle agricultural land with lots of open grassland areas which are favoured by beeeaters, lapwings and pratincoles

- Penanti - open fields, nesting grounds of 3 species of beeeaters (Nov-March)

1. -Mengkuang - old mining land, open grasslands. nesting grounds of Red Wattled lapwings and Oriental Pratincole (Dec-March) and Savanna Nightjars.
   

Species highlights - 1.Penanti - (Nov-March) nesting colony of Chestnut headed beeeaters & Blue throated beeeaters. Plaintive cuckoo, Coppersmith barbets, Red wattled lapwings, Padifield pipits, Red junglefowl, Stork billed & Collared kingfishers, 2.Mengkuang - Savanna & Large tailed nightjars, nesting colonies of Oriental Pratincoles (Dec-March) & Red Wattled Lapwings, Pacific golden plovers, Blue winged pitta, Plaintive cuckoos, Lineated barbets, Barred buttonquails, Pintail snipes, Chinese & Javan pond herons, Blue throated & chestnut headed beeeaters, Greater racquet tailed drongos.

3. Ulu Paip & Sg Sedim are lowland forest habitats with numerous fast flowing jungle streams. Parts of these lowland forests are secondary (regenerated) while much of it is still primary (undisturbed).  The forest type here is lowland dipterocarp with elevations topping out at 350 meters above sea level.

- Ulu Paip - lowland rainforest with fast flowing freshwater streams bordered by fruit plantations, secondary forests

1. -Sungai Sedim - lowland rainforest with white water rapids, low elevation hilltops with fairly undisturbed forests, shallow running streams.
   

Species highlights - 1.Ulu Paip - Chestnut naped forktail, Blue banded & oriental dwarf kingfisher, spiderhunters & flowerpeckers, various bulbuls. 2. Sungai Sedim - Rhinoceros & White crowned hornbills, Scarlet rumped & Red naped trogons, 4 species of broadbills (green, black & red and black & yellow and banded broadbills), banded, oriental dwarf & rufous collared kingfishers, various spiderhunters & flowerpeckers, various bulbuls & drongos, red bearded beeeaters, black naped monarchs,  

1. Juru & Batu Kawan - These 2 locations are coastal mangrove mudflats with adjoining agricultural fields with freshwater irrigation canals. There are healthy old growth mangrove forests on the seafront and this is a rich habitat for kingfishers, herons, egrets & migratory shorebirds

- Juru - mangroves, open fields, agricultural land, secondary forests.

1. -Batu Kawan  - mangroves, open fields, agricultural land, secondary forests.
   

Species highlights - 5 species of kingfishers (Nov-March), Black capped, White throated, Common, Collared, Stork billed kingfishers), Plaintive cuckoos, Lineated barbets, Barred buttonquails, Pintail snipes, Chinese & Javan pond herons, Blue throated & Blue tailed beeeaters, Crested serpent eagle, Changeable hawk eagle, Brahminy kites, Common redshanks, Common sandpipers, Terek sandpipers, Dollarbird, Indian roller, Brown & Tiger Shrikes, Banded, Greater Flameback & Sunda pygmy woodpeckers, Yellow bellied prinias and various migratory flycatchers.

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