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Monday, December 6, 2010

Need Help With Species Identification

Calling out to Any backyard Naturalist that happen to pass by:
Need your help with putting a name to the subjects of my photographs!

Location: FRIM Outpost in Teluk Intan/ Bidor and Teluk Intan itself

More photos of this series can be seen HERE


lizard, Malaysia

lizard, Malaysia

Moth, Malaysia

waterfowl

egret

stork

waterhen

Ant-mimic, Spider, Arachnid, Malaysia

Eagle, Raptor, Malaysia





4 comments:

  1. Hi Raoul;
    I give you species names that i can think of now:
    Picture 5 & 6: Purple Heron(Ardea purpurea)
    Picture 7: Purple Swamphen(Porphyrio porphyrio)
    Picture 8: Myrmarachne spiders (species of red ants spiders)
    Picture 9: Crested Serpent Eagle (Spilornis cheela)

    Great close-up pic on that spider! That spider still alive heh?

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  2. WAH... you get the species name by thinking, off your head... Si Beh GENG ahhhhhh hahahaha

    THANKS a great lot! The spider ah, Didn't keep it oh, put it back into a line of ants, and observed what it did. it WALKED away @.@

    Now collecting stunned mosquitoes for the lizard, It will eat them once they start moving, it only takes live prey lah.. susah...

    I don't think it's a chameleon, the eyes don't move individually, I think it may be the dragon that runs fast over water that we normally see in N. geographic! BEcause the long tail can be used for counterbalance!

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  3. Hi Raoul,

    Just stumbled upon your beautiful blogpost about nature in Malaysia. Great post, Raoul! :)

    I'd like to offer my ideas about the species ID. The chameleon, I believe, might actually be a juvenile Oriental Garden Lizard (Calotes versicolor). I've found a similar one up in the Gopeng Hills in Perak. (See: http://siputkuning.blogspot.com/2009/10/discovering-kinta-valleys-nature-side.html )

    Hope it helps in your ID search! :)

    Best,
    JK

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  4. Thanks JK! Appreciate your great help!!

    The little guy is now probably frolicking underneath a leaf somewhere, being free!

    Hehe.. Thanks once again!

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