Rare birds like this is the reason

Kota Kinabalu: Birders spend billions while globe-trotting just to look at birds. Many onlookers don't understand why and think they are crazy. But the gush of positive feelings unleashed by this little guy's utterly disarming plumage of which defy all descriptive colour names to capture, opens a vivid clue.

This ultimate show of comprehensive bird beauty when it landed totally out of expectation at the grounds of Hilltop Apartment, Friday, reveals why 50 million American birders alone spend US$36 billion just to watch birds!

So now there is reason to believe the claim is true that Sabah is the leader in bird-watching in Malaysia because not only the country's endemic birds are concentrated in the State, but it also has the best infrastructure that makes it most accessible to conservation areas, besides active promotion of this special interest niche market since 2010.

It is said that out of 688 (some cite 717) species of birds in Malaysia, 59 are endemic and most of the endemics are concentrated in Sabah!

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Maybe this spectacular little guy is one of those rare endemics because as Daily Express tried to identify it, no picture of it could be found online!

But it wasn't passion that drove a band of five Hilltop people to the jungle to look for this spectacle, it was this comprehensive little flying beauty which created the passion and understanding, by flying in and sat on the ground and let us watch and photograph it up close to even one foot and wouldn't move for 10 minutes.

At first, one would have thought maybe it was sick or dying.

Cleaner Raimah even prepared for a rescue with ready cardboard box to shelter and care for it but all of a sudden, it took off to perch at an adjacent shrub where it stood for three to four minutes before it flew off with gusto to the secondary forests behind Hilltop Apartments.

Maybe some bird specialists can identify what it is.

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