Wildlife Watching on the Kinabatangan

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Flag of Malaysia Kampung Abai, Sabah, Malaysia
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

We spent three days and two nights at a jungle camp on the river Kinabatangan in some very spartan accomodation and made several trips up and down the river wildlife spotting. We saw loads. Some I can't remember and some we couldn't identify but of those we could and I managed to remember the list is as follows:

Wolf Spider
Huntsman Spider
Flying Foxes (literally thousands of them)
Reticulated Python (about 3m)
White-Bellied Fish Eagle
Buffy Fish Owl
Stork-Billed Kingfisher
Long-Tailed Macaques
Pig-Tailed Macaques
Great Egret
White Egret
Oriental Pied Hornbill
Rhinoceros Hornbill
Bee Eater
Common Sand Piper
Borneo Gibbon
Prevost Squirrel
Pygmy Squirrel
Proboscis Monkey
Orangutan
Blue-Eared Kingfisher
Great River Frog
Cotton Bug
Tractor Millipede
Mock Viper
Saltwater Crocodile (2.5m)
Monitor Lizard
Common Palm Civet
Crested Serpent Eagle
Purple Heron
Leopard Cat

I think is all I can remember. It was a brilliant few days.