Family Hunting Singapore 
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
While they used to be hunted, they nowadays benefit from the locals having recognized them as a source of income – building hides and charging birdwatchers (mostly Chinese, but a few foreigners like me as well – these are usually the only ones not smoking inside the hides) to observe them. Visiting the family.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 24, 2014
Of course this is nonsense, and they are clearly close to swifts, but with a hind toe that lets them perch like a swallow, they sit outside the family as well, in their own, rarely thought about, family. There are four species in the family, ranging from India to the Solomon Islands. Whiskered Treeswift.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2021
Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago describes all 1,456 bird species (39 species more than in the first edition) within 107 bird families known to occur in the region, including 628 endemics (27 endemics more than in the 1st edition) and 10 species yet to be formally described (down from 18 in the 1st edition).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2024
This is the home of the Rusty-naped Pitta , admittedly one of the less glamorous of the family, particularly the subspecies found in Yunnan, but still a nice sight and still a pitta. In Singapore, the White-crested Laughingthrush is widespread despite not being native and has some characteristics of an invasive species ( source ).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
Working in an area for which there are few official checklists, no governing taxonomic body, and much new information on species relationships coming in, the authors were faced with a multitude of questions about family sequence, genus arrangements, English common names, and species taxonomy. Co-author Frank E. Species Accounts.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2024
That species is apparently at risk of extinction in Singapore – not because it is so rare, but because its genetic diversity is so low. The species is also hunted for local consumption in Meghalaya (India), according to the HBW. (If you want to see how this species builds its nest, see here.)
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2012
Bang Pra is a reservoir and no-hunting area to the south east of Bangkok. Another interesting bird we flushed up was a male Red Junglefowl , a bird that Mike saw in Singapore recently and even chose as his bird of the year. This wintering migrant would prove fairly common and fairly easy to ID as far as leaf-warblers go.
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