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By the Bird Society of Singapore
Science
May 17, 2022 / May 20, 2022 by OkamotoKeitaSin | 2 Comments on Soaring all over Singapore: Himalayan Vultures in the 2021/2022 season
During the 2021/2022 winter season, Singapore experienced a record breaking number of Himalayan Vulture sightings. Could they actually all have been the same few birds just flying around the area? Read on to find out!
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Monthly Roundups
April 20, 2022 / August 9, 2023 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment
We've been getting a lot of great birds lately, all thanks to the enthusiastic contributions of birders in Singapore! More and more members of the community are also using eBird to record their sightings, which has made it easier to keep track of these sightings in a single consolidated source. So we believe now is as good a time as ever for the Singapore Birds Project to start publishing monthly bird roundups, summarizing records of rare and scarce species locally over the past month. This roundup is the first of the series, and it contains sightings posted on eBird as well as rarity records submitted to the Singapore Bird Database.
Birding Starter Pack
March 21, 2022 / August 4, 2023 by raghavnarayanswamy | 1 Comment on Exploring birds on this day in history
Drawing on our collection of nearly 1,500 records and counting, our new "On this day" page highlights past records on this day in history, accompanied by details and photos where possible.
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February 13, 2022 / February 14, 2022 by ZacCzk | Leave a Comment
Eldon Ng is pursuing a Diploma in Mass Communications at Ngee Ann Polytechnic. As part of his work, Eldon has prepared a Beginner’s guide on “How to start birding in Singapore?”, which he has kindly shared with the Singapore Birds Project. Thanks Eldon!
Checklist Revisions
February 11, 2022 / August 31, 2022 by OkamotoKeitaSin | Leave a Comment
Our Records Committee maintains an up-to-date checklist of Singapore's bird species, incorporating latest advances in understanding of regional birds. Our official checklist is updated twice a year. Version 2022-1, published in February 2022, is the year's first checklist revision.
February 5, 2022 / August 4, 2023 by raghavnarayanswamy | 1 Comment on More ways to interact with Singapore’s rare bird data
Our Records Committee page is growing rapidly, with over 1400 records and counting. The team is also hard at work to build on the content featured on the site. In this post, we discuss the latest addition to our functionality list: a bar-chart view for rare bird species to illustrate the best time of year to look for each species.
ID Articles
January 15, 2022 / July 29, 2024 by clariceyan | 2 Comments on FLY101: Identifying Little Brown Jobs of the genus Muscicapa in Singapore
Out of the 26 extant flycatchers that belong to the genus Muscicapa, 6 have been recorded in Singapore during the migratory season. In an easily digestible fashion, FLY101 sheds light on the various features to differentiate these flycatchers.
Birders' Stories
January 10, 2022 / January 26, 2022 by Dillen Ng | Leave a Comment
Fuelled by the need for an avenue to destress during the pandemic, Max began his bird watching journey in 2021. Read on to find out more on how his casual journey turned into a serious sprint, and some of the memorable stories that he encountered in his accidental sprint year.
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December 31, 2021 / August 4, 2023 by keejingying | 1 Comment on Year in Review – 2021!
Thank you everyone for supporting the Singapore Birds Project throughout 2021! Our partner Facebook group Bird Sightings, has reached a milestone of 10,000 members, and our website was visited by over 130,000 people. Our community also enjoyed at least 11 new species to Singapore and we interviewed a few birdwatchers who discovered these significant finds!
December 25, 2021 / August 19, 2023 by yipjenwei | 2 Comments on First occurrence of an Ashy-headed Green Pigeon in Singapore
Written by Yip Jen Wei with input from the Singapore Birds Records Committee Editing by Keita Sin, Dillen Ng, Raghav Narayanswamy, Sandra Chia, & Geraldine Lee In October 2021 a series of national firsts made landfall in Singapore in quick succession, the first of which was a male Ashy-headed Green Pigeon Treron phayrei. But unlike […]
