Birding Bukit Tinggi, KL, Malaysia

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When: March 2026 Weather: Cool 25C

OM1mk2 150-400mmZuiko Pro

Having cancelled our planned trip to Chiangrai due to the air pollution there in March, we went instead to Kuala Lumpur Malaysia and managed to engage the services of Cheong Weng Chun our regular bird guide who had guided us in Fraser’s Hill before. We set off from our hotel in Damasara Heights at 6am and stopped for an excellent local breakfast in Kampong Bukit Tinggi Village before heading up to the Japanese Garden on Bukit Tinggi(High Hill literally). We arrived at the car park beyond the sentry post where we have to pay 15MYR per head to enter as birders….

Male orange bellied flowerpecker was the first bird to show on the way up….
Male orange bellied FP
Female orange bellied FP
and then a large bird in the tree…the lovely Green billed malkoha, one of three Malkohas we were to see on these two days…..
Grey in body, stunning red eye and light green bill of green billed malkoha
and then further up, we saw the red billed Malkoha
Red billed malkoha
the sign for the Japanese Garden…we birded from the car park up to the hide for the Mountain Peacock Pheasant..most of the birds were seen in this walk of a few hundred metres.
The stripe throated bulbul posed for us
stripe throated bulbul
and put on a veritable flying display
incoming bulbul
approaching
landing gear down…
touchdown..
posing again
tiger shrike from the hide for the pheasant and partridge which unfortunately didn’t show up
Scaly breasted bulbul and cinereous bulbul
three bulbuls in a tree: LtoR red eyed, scaly breasted and cinereous
cinereous bulbul
female siberian blue robin at the hide
white rumped shama at hide
verditer flycatcher
verditer FC
velvet fronted nuthatch
velvet fronted nuthatch
black crested bulbul
black eared barbet
black eared barbet
black thighed falconet
Male buff rumped woodpecker with red moustachial stripes
female buff rumped WP
Dark sided flycatcher
male greater green leafbird
and last bird of the morning was the stunning red bearded bee eater from afar

After 4 hours, we finished birding and did the hour long drive back to Damansara in about an hour….an excellent morning’s birding although dipping on the MPP and FP. HIghly recommended.

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