The raptors are coming - Tanjung Tuan

Every Feb-March the skies above Tanjung Tuan are filled with migrating raptors. Tanjung Tuan, aka Cape Rachado (a Portuguese name, meaning Broken Cape) is actually part of the state of Malacca, although glancing at a map you would think it is in Negeri Sembilan. It is located about 20 km south of Port Dickson.

Each year, thousands of raptors fly over this part of the coast on their migration. In Feb - Mar they are going back to their homelands in cold countries. Part of their long route takes them from Sumatra to peninsula Malaysia and the narrowest crossing is over Tanjung Tuan.

I was there in mid Feb 2015 and already there were quite a few birds in the sky and the bird watchers were there with their powerful binoculars and huge lenses.

Tanjung Tuan is part of a recreation forest and at the end of the reserve on a high hill is a lighthouse.

There are long tailed macaques in the Dipterocarp forest and I saw a praying mantis on the road -

See article I wrote in 2009 for Brunei Times.