We had a slightly later start as we had seen the Wetar Nightbirds on the first day: but it was still a dawn landing back in the village on Wetar. It was another slow drive in the knackered lorry & we returned to the site we had been Birding at on the previous evening. After another unsuccessful search for Olive-shouldered Lorikeet there, we tried another roadside stop in drier forest compared to the previous morning. The main highlight of the morning was my first Timor Imperial Pigeon. This species is hard to see in Timor without going to a montane location that we didn't visit in 1991. They are easier to see in East Timor, which wasn't possible to visit at the time.
Bonelli's Eagle: This is the renschi subspecies which is endemic to the Lesser Sundas
Black-backed Fruit-dove: This is the nominate cinctus subspecies which occurs on Timor, Wetar & Romang Islands
Pink-headed Imperial Pigeon: This monotypic species is found on islands in the Java Sea & Flores Sea, as well as, some of the smaller & larger islands in the Lesser Sundas
Red-cheeked Parrot: This is the nominate geoffroyi subspecies which occurs on Timor, Wetar & Samau. This is a widespread species which occurs from the Lesser Sundas to the Moluccas, Tanimbar & Kai Islands, New Guinea, & North Australia
Marigold Lorikeet: This is the flavotectus subspecies which occurs on Wetar. Two other subspecies occur on Timor & Sumba, making this Marigold Lorikeet a Lesser Sundas endemic. Marigold Lorikeet is one of six species that were split from Rainbow Lorikeet a few years ago
Helmeted Friarbird: According to Clements & IOC, this is the buceroides subspecies which occurs in Timor, Wetar, Semau, Sawu & Rote. There is another subspecies in the larger Lesser Sunda Islands, as well as, other subspecies in New Guinea & Northern Australia. The Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago have proposed splitting the two Lesser Sundas subspecies as Tenggara Friarbird from the subspecies in New Guinea & Northern Australia, on the basis of morphological & vocal differences, as well as, a fairly deep genetic divergence
Fawn-breasted Whistler: This is a monotypic species that is restricted to Timor, Semau, Jaco & Wetar
Wetar Figbird: Female. This is a Wetar endemic
Long-tailed Shrike: This is the bentet subspecies which occurs in Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Lesser Sundas. Other subspecies occur in Iran, the Indian Subcontinent, East & South China, Taiwan, Burma, Thailand, the Philippines & New Guinea
Indonesian Butterfly sp.: This would look good if it wasn't so knackered
Cicada sp.: This Cicada joined on the back of the lorry
More roadside Birding on the way back to the village
It was now late morning & time to return to the Lady Denok for lunch. Two distant Jungle Crows were waiting on the beach.
Getting On & Off The Lorry
Jungle Crow: This is the nominate macrorhynchos subspecies which occurs in Southern Indochina, the Malay-Thai Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Bali & the Lesser Sundas. Other subspecies occur in North East Asia, China, Japan, the Indian subcontinent, Burma & the Philippines
