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By the Bird Society of Singapore
Trip Reports
May 1, 2017 / December 3, 2021 by Francis Yap | Leave a Comment
In the early morning of 29 April 2017, 2 boats with 10 birders/bird photographers on board each set off from Marina Cove headed towards Horsburgh Lighthouse. The lead boat “Boon Teik” was followed closely by its sister boat “Popeye“. This is the second trip organised by See Toh Yew Wai with mainly contributors to the […]
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Checklist Revisions
April 23, 2017 / August 31, 2022 by Francis Yap | Leave a Comment
There have been some minor English Name as well as Scientific Name changes to be in sync with the IOC World Bird List version 7.2 published in April 22 2017. The English Name changes are are: Blyth’s Paradise Flycatcher from Oriental Paradise Flycatcher. Rufous-bellied Eagle from Rufous-bellied Hawk-Eagle. The Scientific Name changes are: Ruff […]
Tagged
January 13, 2017 / August 31, 2022 by Francis Yap | Leave a Comment
We have made some additions as well as deletions to our checklist based on recent sightings or the lack of them. The new additions are: Jacobin Cuckoo which was sighted in December 2013 and on subsequent season in 2014, both at Lorong Halus Wetland. Black Hornbill with a subadult male sighting in July 2015 at […]
October 16, 2016 / December 2, 2021 by Francis Yap | 1 Comment on Pelagic Bird Survey at the Singapore Strait – 15 October 2016
A few of the regular contributors of the Singapore Birds Project organized and gathered together for a pelagic bird survey trip to the Singapore Strait. This time, we decided to head west of Sentosa (our starting point) towards the direction of Karimun Island and Kukup, Malaysia and heading back towards Singapore in a loop. This […]
Birders' Stories
September 20, 2016 / December 2, 2021 by Francis Yap | 2 Comments on Loke Wan Tho – A Company of Birds
Published in 1959, the book “A Company of Birds” is a collection of bird photographs, ornithological notes and a semi-autobiography by Loke Wan Tho. These days, not many people recognise the name. Cathay Organization is perhaps better known in Singapore and Malaysia as a cinema chain, and in the past as a film studio as […]
Science
March 1, 2016 / January 4, 2024 by Francis Yap | 2 Comments on Local extinctions of Singapore birds
There is an interesting paper recently published in the prestigious journal Conservation Biology by members of two National University of Singapore (NUS) labs titled “A robust non-parametric method for quantifying undetected extinctions” that came to our attention. In it, they presented a novel method of estimating undetected extinction, i.e. the type of extinction events that […]
February 11, 2016 / December 2, 2021 by Francis Yap | Leave a Comment
With the explosive growth of bird photography as a hobby in Singapore in recent years, it is hard to imagine a time when the number of local bird photographers can be counted with the fingers of one hand. That was the case in the 1990s, in the days before the Internet, social media and pervasive […]
Uncategorized
January 28, 2016 / August 4, 2023 by Francis Yap | Leave a Comment
Although on the surface it seems that we have slowed down somewhat the completion of the write-up for the various species, the truth is that there have been a lot of work going on behind the scenes. For example, we have now included where possible, the link to the IUCN Red List assessment page for […]
January 20, 2016 / August 4, 2023 by Francis Yap | Leave a Comment
When I started taking birding seriously in 2010, information about birds whereabouts and what sort of wild birds there were in Singapore was hard to get. At first I relied on Wikipedia which list out all the birds that have been seen, and where they are likely to be found. Forums like Naturepixels and NPSS […]
Birding Starter Pack
January 12, 2016 / December 2, 2021 by Francis Yap | 2 Comments on A quick way to organize bird pictures
One of the pitfalls in nature photography in the digital age is that we take way too many pictures to manage and somehow, when asked to retrieve something we took 3-4 years back, we’re stumped as to where we put the picture files. Thankfully if we are using Adobe Lightroom, there are many ways to […]
