The pandemic has made roadside birdwatching a popular pastime in Malaysia.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the world had to adapt to a new normal. As the virus ravaged countries, economies suffered, businesses shut down and many people lost their jobs.
But amidst the chaos, there was a silver lining – nature started to restore itself.
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Birdwatching in Malaysia
The pandemic has made roadside birdwatching a popular pastime in Malaysia.
A trio of common sandpipers.
Belly Good...A Eurasian Hoopoe having a bug meal in the middle of the field.
Flying high...A brahminy kite uses using thermals, which are columns of warm rising air, to fly with using energy.
A white-bellied woodpecker.
A banded woodpecker perching on the trunk of a dead tree.
Making a run...A female Common Flameback Woodpecker flew off from her nest to find food.
A male lace woodpecker chick waiting for its parents to return from a hunt to feed him.
Looking out...A white-bellied woodpecker chick is peering from the hole of its tree trunk nest.
A Rufous Woodpecker flies off its nest with a faecal sac from her nest after feeding its chicks.
Nesting..a male (with a red top) and female Lace Woodpecker taking turns to incubate the eggs in their nest in the dead tree trunk.
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