10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2019

During our three week visit to Singapore in March we spent a good part of each day walking and birding. No doubt they are often overlooked or mistaken for a small bird if you observe them in the distance flying through the dense canopy in Singapore. Singapore is a great place to enjoy the woodpecker family.

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Singapore Unwanted Pets Woodpeckers Parrots 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

The Greater Flameback (Singapore) would presumably also like to have another species to look down on … but the Lesser Flameback is more accurately named the Black-rumped Flameback (Delhi, India). The lack of a red forehead makes this a female Laced Woodpecker (Singapore). Kind of like a diesel version.

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Woodpeckers South Africa China Singapore 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2014

In Singapore, there is a small corner of the Botanical Gardens that I love to visit. I visited Singapore recently and passed on my customary visit to the gardens, so today’s post is an indulgence on my part. Their morphology and appearance are also very similar, but the families are not closely related.

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Singapore Parrots Family Birds 166

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2013

JOHOR, MALAYSIA, DECEMBER 2012 – If you’re traveling to Singapore for birding, you might want to think outside the box or, in this case, the island. I visited during the quietest week of the year, yet still saw tons of amazing birds, many of which don’t turn up in Singapore. Bats under a rocky overhang.

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Malaysia Singapore Monkeys Asia 213

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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Solomon Islands Singapore India Family 170

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2019

During our three weeks in Singapore we encountered many a family of Red Junglefowl- Gallus gallus in various locations. Red Junglefowl are under threat in Singapore due to habitat loss and inter-breeding, but we observed them most days on our hiking trips around the island and also on Pulau Ubin. Happy Easter!

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Singapore Chickens Litter Squirrels 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2021

A typical description of the family is that of “a tropical African and Asian songbird that typically has a melodious voice and drab plumage”, another is “small, dull-colored passerine birds of Asia and Africa”, yet another states that they are “often rather plain” Individual species get even harsher reviews.

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South Africa Malaysia Africa China 275

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions. It’s a unique title; twitchers and naturalists interested in migration will find it fascinating reading and valuable for future reference.

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Sri Lanka Malaysia Suriname Malawi 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2013

Nemesis Bird has come on strong with a core of great young birders twitching rarities at a pace that astounds those of us with full-time jobs and families. The Bird Ecology Study Group , perhaps the first true group bird blog, continues to put out great content about the ecology and behavior of the birds of Singapore.

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Birds Groups Singapore 2014 253

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2011

I then flew south to Sydney to have the weekend with my sister and family. Well, he has just had two trips to Singapore with work and has managed to fit some birding in. Well I have done a lot of travelling in the week since I last wrote a post! Meanwhile I have a good chance of getting a few birds that he won’t!

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South Korea Penguins Sharks Singapore 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Well, this time next week I’ll be winging my way to Cape Town via Auckland and Singapore (air transport is weird sometimes), so this is my last beat post of the year. Given that they are a family of obscure deepwater whales that are very hard to see, I would imagine this is a contender for one that will never leave my list.

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Sharks Leopards Whaling Whales 201

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 ).

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Burma India Thailand Indonesia 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2015

Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in Cape Town has to rate as one of the finer examples of botanical gardens that I have ever seen, up there with London’s Kew Gardens and the Botanical Gardens of Singapore. This Cape Francolin was raising a family less than a hundred metres from the main gate.

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Africa South Africa Mongoose Birds 222

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).

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Indonesia Timor Brunei Guinea 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

Of course, it is quite common for human parents to set fire to their family homes in order to keep the adult children from moving back home, but this is not an issue for drongos. In Singapore, a Tiger Shrike was observed casting a pellet after eating a large scarab beetle. Similarly, Black-winged Cuckooshrike ?

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Mountain Goats Singapore Giraffes Birds 147

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. And, Frank E.

Indonesia 168

Indonesia Brunei Malaysia Papua New Guinea 168

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2017

In particular they evoke the New Hampshire lake my extended family descends upon each summer and has done so from before I was born. Singapore: Urban Bird of the Year. Singapore is a densely populated city-state which still manages to protect a number of species.

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United Arab Emirates Ethiopia 2016 Singapore 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Check out the photo and movie in my blog: [link] Richard Mar 14th, 2011 at 3:51 am After a busy week in Jakarta and Singapore, I stayed on for Saturday to do some intensive birding. Kah Wai Lin Mar 14th, 2011 at 3:26 am White-throated dipper in Nyfors waterfall of Sweden. It is cool to see them feeding underwater. I got the bird.

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2011 Deer Owls Birds 133

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

title “A Peck of Affection or a Peck of Aggression: Case Report of an Eye Injury Due to the Black-naped Oriole “ In which a Chinese man in Singapore picks up a juvenile Black-naped Oriole , which in turn attacks the patient’s left eye causing severe pain and tearing.

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Birds Cattle Raised Mammals 130

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. (If you want to see how this species builds its nest, see here.) These roads are much less of a hindrance for the Pin-striped Tit-babbler , a mid-story bird.

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Burma Vietnam Birds Laos 242

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2012

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. One interesting experience here was finding a baby terrapin on the road and picking it up to move it only for peter to call out a Common Iora , one of my two lifer families of the day.

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Thailand New Zealand Terrapins Asia 164

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

This totally crazy bird is the crème de la crème of the cracid family, and besides being endangered (population estimated at under 2,500), its habitat choice of cloudforests on the steep slopes of a few volcanoes and mountains in southern Mexico and south-western Guatemala makes it a tough bird to seek. Secondly, well just look at it.

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2012 Guatemala Birds Florida 188

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2014

This is not to say, however, that birders on holiday are, should they choose to travel with family, friends or other assorted loved ones, resigned to seeing nothing, or even nothing except the common stuff. I was thus able to pick an off-the-shelf ecotourism route and, having selected a company, customise it to my family’s needs.

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Bats Birds Elephants Family 220

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Plain Sunbird is the plain vanilla version of the otherwise often very colorful family (ok, a very low-budget sort of joke). ” If you have ever been to Singapore, you will know that about half the places there are named after Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (1781 – 1826). “Dull, me?”

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Los Angeles Woodpeckers Birds Wounded 239

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

For the moment I’ll stick with the split babbler families although I may relump the laughingthrushes, ground and tree babblers per Molye et al (2012). Species are listed by family according to the order eBird spits them out to me in. Purple Heron ( Ardea purpurea ); Changi Airport, Singapore, 11 January.

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2014 New Zealand Singapore Rhinoceros 150

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Pied Oystercatcher family. If you are travelling to Australia from overseas then it is highly likely that you will have to come via Singapore. We spent three weeks in Singapore prior to the pandemic and we can highly recommend these locations that I wrote about and once again you can click on the link to see the post.

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Australia Singapore Birds Battery 147