A free field guide to the birds of Borneo — 678 species, each with photographs of live birds, scientific names, Malay and Indonesian names, and the reserves and rivers where you have a realistic chance of finding them. Nothing to buy, nothing to sign up for, and it fits in the pocket you already carry.
What Borneo's bird list looks like
Borneo holds somewhere north of 600 recorded bird species, and around 60 of them are found nowhere else on Earth — bristlehead, the Whitehead's set on the mountains, the endemic pittas on the lowland forest floor — set among a Sundaic avifauna at close to full strength. If you want the practical side of that rather than the list itself, the birdwatching guide covers where to go, when to be out, and what to expect at each site.
Using this instead of a book
A printed guide gives you illustrated plates showing every plumage, and a battery that never runs out. This gives you photographs of living birds in Bornean light, more species than most single-volume guides carry, local names so you can ask a boatman what he just pointed at, and a link from each bird to the places it is actually seen. Most people who bird here seriously end up using both. There is a fuller, honest comparison on the field guide page.
Tap any bird below for photographs, identification notes, habitat, range and breeding detail.
All 678 species
Each card has two colour-coded toggles:
turns lime green — adds it to your trip planner
turns blue — marks it as seen in my sightings
