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August 25, 2022 / August 31, 2022 by raghavnarayanswamy | 4 Comments on Announcing our new migrant bar charts!
Have you ever asked when you should expect to start seeing warblers and flycatchers make their way to Singapore, or when to start watching the skies for the fall raptor migration? Our new MIGRANT BAR CHARTS seek to answer these questions and more!
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Monthly Roundups
August 21, 2022 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment
July is the month where the first signs of migration begin to appear, with the first arrivals of early migrants like Barn Swallows and Brown-streaked Flycatchers.
July 20, 2022 / August 3, 2022 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment
June was a relatively quiet month, but with records of rarities like Black-thighed Falconet and Pied Stilt, it's hard to call it a boring one!
June 19, 2022 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment
The buzz at Chek Jawa continued into the start of the month, and more sightings of uncommon breeding species made this May one to remember!
May 22, 2022 / May 22, 2022 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment
While April is usually the month when rarities begin to taper off and most migrants start returning to their breeding grounds for the summer, April this year was anything but quiet!
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.
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.
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.
Science
October 15, 2021 / September 15, 2023 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment
By Raghav Narayanswamy For much of my first few years of birding in Singapore, I wondered how the data from earlier eras in local ornithology could be made available for more to benefit; if early dates and late dates, major hotspots, past trends in the local avifauna, among other useful information, could be compiled in […]
