Trip report: Taman Negara, Malaysia (23/07/2017 – 31/07/2017)

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This report might not come in very handy for serious birders planning a trip to Taman Negara as it merely recounts my first ever serious birding trip when I was still a novice. The venue of this self-guided trip was Taman Negara, a highly accessible lowland rainforest in Peninsular Malaysia. I embarked on the 9-day trip with another friend – also relatively new to Malaysian birding back then – and together we breathed in the remarkable beauty of Southeast Asian tropical rainforest, chasing after every single bird not only because most of them were new to us, but also because our identification skills were pretty horrible back then. We encountered a total of 147 species, of which 23 were heard only.