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Epicbirds is based in Australia and presents a mixture of feature length documentaries as well as short videos showcasing the wildlife, landscapes and cultures I encounter during adventures around the world! Now filming with a Canon R5 and iPhone 12 pro. Look out for a feature length documentary on my epic 5 week adventure across India which I undertook and filmed with a good mate in early 2024 as well as videos covering Borneo and Mexico.
Epicbirds: to the jungles of Borneo
I spent 5 days exploring the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo, filming the stunning forest landscapes and the wildlife that call them home. It was a short trip due to my need to attend a scientific conference in Singapore, but despite the limited time and frequent rain I managed to see over 100 bird species and numerous of mammals, including the Bornean Orangutan. Look out for a new video which will cover the bird species more extensively, that should be out soon along with the full India documentary!
Camera gear:
Canon R5
Canon RF 100-500mm RF f4.5-7.1 L IS USM (with 1.4x converter)
Canon EF 70-200mm f2.8
Canon EF 16-35mm f4 L IS USM
Canon EF-RF lens mount adapter
iPhone 12 pro...
Camera gear:
Canon R5
Canon RF 100-500mm RF f4.5-7.1 L IS USM (with 1.4x converter)
Canon EF 70-200mm f2.8
Canon EF 16-35mm f4 L IS USM
Canon EF-RF lens mount adapter
iPhone 12 pro...
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The elusive Painted Buttonquail
Просмотров 2476 месяцев назад
After many attempts over the years, I finally managed to see the Painted Buttonquail, somewhat of a 'nemesis bird' for me! This short video includes footage and photos of these beautifully camouflaged and secretive birds.
Epicbirds INDIA: Update 3, Rajasthan to Sikkim
Просмотров 36910 месяцев назад
Epicbirds INDIA: Update 3, Rajasthan to Sikkim
Backpacking India with all my camera gear? This is how.
Просмотров 22611 месяцев назад
Backpacking India with all my camera gear? This is how.
Epicbirds INDIA: Update 2, Gujarat
Просмотров 20911 месяцев назад
I’m on an epic adventure across India, in this update we travel from Hampi to Goa and then to the spectacular Elora Caves and then onto the Little Ran of Kutch in Gujarat.
Epicbirds INDIA: welcome to India!
Просмотров 181Год назад
It’s been an eventful first few days for this epic adventure, we travelled from Bengalaru (Bangalore) to Mysuru (Mysore) and are now staying near Hampi….
Top Moments 2022: What comes next??
Просмотров 295Год назад
Wow 2022 has been a wild year for epicbirds! Thanks to everyone who has subscribed to the channel, there's plenty more to come! Checkout my highlights from 2022 and stay until the end for a hint of my plans in 2023! If you see something you like in today's video, please checkout the full videos that correspond to each 'highlight'!
ADELAIDE STORM aftermath: When will the power return?
Просмотров 3202 года назад
ADELAIDE STORM aftermath: When will the power return?
ADELAIDE STORM ‘like a cyclone’
Просмотров 10 тыс.2 года назад
November 12 2022: A slight break from the usual content, but I've never encountered winds anywhere near this strong in Adelaide, it has devastated the trees in our neighborhood and I imagine much of the Adelaide hills are the same. Unprecedented scenes. Wishing my Adelaide viewers well and hope that no one has been hurt this afternoon!
Escape to the Rainforest: Kondalilla Falls
Просмотров 2202 года назад
I was based in Palmwoods on the Queensland Sunshine Coast for two weeks while visiting family, a day trip to Kondalilla National Park was a highlight of the trip - rainforest, waterfalls and birdlife ooze from this natural gem! If you're in the area, checkout Pacos Tacos', the Mexican food truck is situated at different sunshine coast sites at regular times, check the link for details - the foo...
Wild Budgerigars - outback Australia
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Wild Budgerigars - outback Australia
The Korean Adventure: Part 4 - Jeju Island
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The Korean Adventure: Part 4 - Jeju Island
Putting Canon R5 to the test at Gluepot
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Putting Canon R5 to the test at Gluepot
powerful.
Port Macquarie NSW - a red winged grass parrot (no.1) visits me twice a day for five years- ❤
Very well done video.
Thank you! Greatly appreciated :)
What a wonderful video! Thank you so much as I live in Western Canada and it is the beginning of winter!
Thank you! Hopefully the video transported you out of the cold and into the tropics for at least a few minutes! Best of luck with the winter months ahead :)
This was such a beautiful and relaxing video. I have been to Borneo and covered all of the eastern parts of Sabah for two weeks but have not nearly seen as many bird species as you did in a span of five days only. Unfortunately, I was just new to all of the pure forest experiences, and I did not have any professional camera/lenses to capture the beautiful birds and animals that I had seen. Nevertheless, I still saw sooo many animals and birds that I had never seen in my life before! It was magnificent! 🥰🥰
Thank you very much, it is wonderful to hear that you enjoyed the video! You are definitely correct that Borneo is a magnificent place, the jungle and wildlife are truly special. It sounds like you had a wonderful time in Borneo as well, what was your favourite area in eastern Sabah?
@ my favorite area was definitely Danum Valley! As it has lots and lots of primary forest. Although not exactly on the eastern part of Sabah. I also loved the Kinabatangan River! Lots of Pygmy elephants 🐘 there! 🥰
Awesome camera work, man. My partner and i thoroughly enjoyed seeing all these different species. The colourways blew us away
Thank you for your kind words, they are greatly appreciated!! I’m happy to hear that you both enjoyed the birds from Borneo, they certainly are colourful!
A great narration for great photography. Thank you for the honor of seeing Borneo's winged beauties.
Thank you, I greatly appreciate your kind words!
Incredible and well done
Thank you!!
Just curious, did you have a guide when you traveled there? It’s one of my bucket list destinations.
Thank you for your comment, I didn’t use a guide for this trip, I travelled alone. I only had around 5 days and since it was my first visit to the island, I thought I would be overwhelmed with new species just exploring the forest by myself. In the future a guide would definitely be helpful to find some target species that I missed, but I saw a lot and had an amazing time doing everything at my own pace this time. Where are you planning to go and what do you want to see?
How this channel doesn’t have 174k subscribers instead of 1.74k I don’t know, because this video was absolutely incredible! As someone who makes wildlife videos for a living, your footage and photography is off the charts, and it’s even more impressive that you could get so much diversity on camera in as challenging an environment as Mt. Kinabalu. Nice pacing throughout, a very well done video overall. Eager to see more, easily earned my subscription! If you ever find yourself in the eastern U.S., we’d be happy to show you around! We’re based in the state of Pennsylvania.
Thank you so much for your kind words, they are greatly appreciated!! It was certainly a challenging place to film but the birdlife is remarkable and makes it all worth the effort. I thoroughly enjoy the time in the field as well as behind the computer editing, it’s a long process but something I get a great deal of enjoyment from and it’s always encouraging to read a comment like yours. I’ll be checking out your channel, it looks great - I noticed that you’ve been to Costa Rica - that’s somewhere I’d love to go in the future, I’ll be watching those videos eagerly! Thanks for taking the time to comment and for your subscription, when I get over to the US someday I’ll definitely let you know, it would be great to meet and see your region!
Really well-edited and well-paced video - inspirational to say the least
Thank you, I greatly appreciate your kind words! Thanks for taking the time to comment :)
Just amazing,thank you so much for sharing all these incredible birds,love barbets and flycatchers 💖
Thank you! It’s wonderful to hear that you enjoyed the video, I also love seeing barbets, we don’t have any in Australia so they are always exciting to see for me and their plumage is often spectacular!
You did a wonderful job! Loved all the birds, most of all the woodpeckers and the kingfishers. Caught a glimplse of some beautiful orchids. Just started to think of visiting when I saw the mosquitoes... wet land, mosquitoes. Wonderful place, though! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for your comment and kind words! There certainly can be a lot of mosquitoes but don’t let that put you off visiting, with some long pants/shirt and tropical strength bug repellent they can be kept at bay. It’s definitely a wonderful place to explore!
24:12 the bird is soo beautiful, could barely see its eyes
Amazing ❤
Thank you!
Soo cute 😂😊...your voice also :)❤
Thank you so much 😀
Wonderfull doc,love it, just amazing coloured and variety of bird😍😍❤️❤️👍
Thank you, Borneo is a spectacular region, full of wonderful wildlife! I’m happy that you enjoyed the video!
wonderful, congratulations.
Thank you!
Beautiful place ❤❤❤
It truly is spectacular!
Wonderful👍
Thank you!
I am quite envious of your destination, less envious of the journey to get there. You see in 1977 & 1978 I lived in Borneo while teaching ESL at a mission school. This was down in Balikpapan, Kalimantan. All those years ago the rainforest was a bit more intact so I got to do some exploring. We traveled inland and visited a family that was doing public health work south of Samarinda. I had a small motorcycle and traveled on sone logging roads into the rainforest. I went up to a hill with a communications tower on top. The lights on the tower attracted insects so it was like an insect h😊aven with huge rhinoceros beetles, giant cicadas and many others. Earlier I saw a Hornbill and saw some gibbons brachiating from tree to tree. I also traveled to more remote areas with a mission pilot and landed in a simple runway at 😂a Dayak village that had some outside influence but was still very pristine. I also landed in this more remote field with grasses that were quite tall. We met what I now believe was a group of Penang people a more remote less settled, hunter/gathers. The highlight for me was trying out their blowgun. So I have always wanted to return but it just hasn’t been practical. I’m glad you got to experience this and I glad I had the experience when I did.
What a wonderful little nature film. I learned a lot watching this beautiful video
Thank you, I greatly appreciate your kind words!
Mount kinabalu is not the second tallest mountain in Asia. It's almost half of mount K2 that lies in the Karakoram range. Kinabalu might be the tallest in the Malay Archipelago. Excellent video though.
Thankyou for pointing that out, I’ll try to make an edit
Mt. Kinabalu is the tallest mountain in SE Asia. In all of Asia it’s not the tallest, but in SE Asia it is yes the tallest mountain
Great❤
Thankyou!
nature in its vast bounty is stunning indeed
Thanks for the nice well narrated video.
Thank you, greatly appreciated!
Very beautiful birds and a black sqirrel with red on him amazing ❤
Thank you!
gladly subscribing, shall await your next post with delight! Thank you.
Thank you very much, your comment and subscription are greatly appreciated! There will be more to come I promise!
Excellent video. A real appetizer! What time of year did you make the trip, and what time of year would you consider the best for a bird photography trip?
Thankyou! I visited Borneo in July, which is a good time to visit but ultimately it depends on what you’re interested in seeing, I would recommend contacting a local guide to find out when the birds you’re interested in are easiest to find.
@@epicbirds2864 Thanks, Michael 🙂
The clouds and mist make it look like a fairyland!
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Excellent Michael
Thankyou Rashid!
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You have alot of bangers for 2 1/2 days of work. That is amazing.
Thank you! It was actually 5 days in total, the 2.5 days was for Mt Kinabalu, I then spent around 2.5 days at Sepilok too. It was a wonderful trip, but I’d love to go for longer next time!
Nice video, thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
Burung burung itu Cantik
What a heaven it is
Great content and beautifully presented thanks for the upload watching from Melbourne Australia
Thank you for taking the time to comment and for your kind words, greatly appreciated!
hi friend , wonderful , keep up the goood work.
Thank you!
Beautiful stuff.
Thankyou!!
@@epicbirds2864I'm visiting the Little Desert soon with friends for some birding, amongst other things. Any tips or recommended good spots?
Could share what tour company or guide did you use please?
Thanks for your comment, I traveled alone in Borneo and didn’t use a guide or tour so unfortunately I can’t recommend any specific guides or tours. Are you planning to visit Borneo soon?
You did really well to get so many great images in such a short time
Thank you, it was definitely worth the effort!
An excellent video. You were extremely lucky (or very patient) to see so many species. I'm going there in a few days time and I would be very happy just to see half of what you did.
Thank you! I'm sure you will have a wonderful trip and see a lot, where are you planning to visit? The jungle is a difficult place to find birds, I went long periods of time without seeing anything while walking through the forest but eventually I would always find something (and then usually a few species all at once), it is just a matter of persistence. What would you most like to see?
@@epicbirds2864 I'll be in Sandakan for 5 nights, 2 of them on the river tour and hopefully get to the Discovery centre for a full day. Then 2 nights in Kota Kinabalu before leaving for Taiwan where I now live. I'm quite used to spotting birds in the sub-t forest here, so hopefully that helps.
@taichi500 wow that sounds great. I’ve heard great things about the Kinabatangan river cruises, you’ll have a great time there and will hopefully see a good variety of hornbills along the river. The discovery centre is definitely worth visiting, the canopy walkway is fantastic. Enjoy your trip and good-luck!
Check out Rainforest Discovery Centre & Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre that is right next door to it for sure while you are in Sandakan!
@@emmaleeaman1110 I spent a very enjoyable 8 hrs in the Discovery Centre - well worth it. Thanks.
My favorite cat species is from Borneo the clouded leopard they are aboriginal hunting birds and monkeys high in the canopy. My dream bird I would want to see would be the Philippine eagle
I would love to see clouded leopards, have you seen them in Borneo? Unfortunately I didn’t have time to visit the areas such as Dannum valley or Deramakot reserve where they are more likely to be found. Next time! I agree that seeing Philippine Eagles would be amazing!
Thank you for all the beautiful sightings. I try to do my small bit by boycotting products that use palm oil in them in the hope to save whats left of our wild places and the animals that call them their only home.
Borneo isn't north of the equator, it literally straddles the equator extending both to the north and south of it.
Thanks for picking that up! I originally planned to talk about Sabah in that line (which is above the equator), but changed the introduction script to say ‘Borneo’ instead before I recorded (along with a lot of other changes). Unfortunately I never noticed the error that change produced.
Beautiful bird amazing documentary video
Thank you!
Fantastic work Michael. Outstanding film of behaviours and excellent commentary. We're just recently back from Sabah and thought it was wonderful. Congratulations on your production.
Thank you, I really appreciate your kind words! It’s wonderful to hear from you, I’m glad that you enjoyed the video and also had a great trip to Sabah! Where did you go during your trip? What were your highlights?
Nice BRO video you✌️😄👍
Thank you!
nah, Scarlet Honeyeaters are our prettiest honeyeaters imho! Great video mate. Hoping to visit Gluepot over the coming years.
Haha that’s a fair call, scarlet honeyeaters are stunning! You’ll love Gluepot when you get there, it’s a stunning property which is well setup for birding and the mallee birds are definitely worth the effort!
@@epicbirds2864 I wanna do Northern Queensland, Western treatment plant Melbourne, Northern Tasmania (Swift parrot) as well.