The Birds of Borneo. By Bertram E. Smythies — This is a very unusual bird book. The main body of the work (about 460 pages) consists of a detailed systematic account of all the 549 species of ...

is devoted to an elaborate memoir on the birds of Borneo, prepared by the well-known ornithologist, Tommaso Salvadori, of the Museum of Turin. The work is based upon the rich collections made by ...

Scientists surveying the birdlife of Borneo have discovered a startling surprise: an undescribed species of bird, which has been named the spectacled flowerpecker. While scientists and ...

The Spectacled Flowerpecker bird which was first spotted 10 years ago in the jungles of Borneo has just been confirmed as a new — and totally unique — species. The Spectacled Flowerpecker ...

In the lush, lowland rainforests on the island of Borneo lives a rather common, drab brown bird called the Cream-vented Bulbul, or Pycnonotus simplex. This bird is found from southern Thailand to ...

In the rainforests of West Kalimantan, in Indonesian Borneo, the Indigenous Dayak Iban listen to what they call “omen birds,” ...

A female of the new species was spotted snacking on mistletoe A new species of bird has been spotted in the rainforests of Borneo. Leeds University biologist Richard Webster first glimpsed the bird ...

Scientists with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and collaborators surveying the birdlife of Borneo have discovered a startling surprise: an undescribed species of bird ...