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.
Oriental Magpie-robin
Squirrel
Stork-billed Kingfisher
Greater Coucal
Sparrows
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.
Blue-throated Bee-eater
There are lots of mammals in the grounds as well. Monkeys (Macaques) are always around to try to steal food from unsuspecting tourists. Sadly, they will eat all the fruit off the trees driving some bird species such as parrots away. If they can’t find fruit or rob a tourist, they will apparently eat flowers!
Other mammals seen on the trails and near the Tahan Hide include squirrels, bush pigs & deer. There’s more info about mammals here.
Keep an eye out for Blue-winged Pitta scurrying around the beginning of the walkway which eventually leads to the canopy walkway and under the bungalows on the rainforest side. I saw these birds in the late afternoon.
