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By the Bird Society of Singapore
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.
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Birding Starter Pack
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!
Science
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 […]
December 12, 2021 / May 21, 2024 by sandrachia | 2 Comments on RAP201: How to Identify Uncommon Raptors
Your handy raptor identification guide is back with a second installment – RAP201: How to Identify Uncommon Raptors! This article will cover seven species that migrate through Singapore in relatively low numbers: Grey-faced Buzzard (Butastur indicus), Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo), Eastern Buzzard (Buteo japonicus), Booted Eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus), Black Kite (Milvis migrans), Greater Spotted Eagle […]
November 11, 2021 / August 31, 2022 by OkamotoKeitaSin | 3 Comments on Singapore Birds Database: A Digital Museum of Local Bird Information
~Record keeping with the future in mind~ By Sin Yong Chee Keita & Dillen Ng Summary The Singapore Birds Database contains an easy-to-use search interface that allows you to look up information on locally rare bird species More than 1000 records across over 160 species are now freely available to the public You can contribute […]
October 25, 2021 / July 29, 2024 by OkamotoKeitaSin | 1 Comment on PIPIT101: Identifying Singapore’s First Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
Written by Richard White, infographic by Keita Sin Editing by Martin Kennewell, Keita Sin, Sandra Chia, & Dillen Ng The birding community was presented with an identification challenge today with the arrival of a vagrant pipit species. These small, brown, streaky birds can be difficult to identify at the best of times. An unfamiliar, out […]
October 15, 2021 / May 21, 2024 by sandrachia | 3 Comments on RAP101: How to Identify Common Raptors
The peak of Singapore’s raptor migration will soon be upon us. From October to December, large numbers of migratory raptors will pass through Singapore, as they move from their breeding grounds in temperate northeast Asia to tropical southeast Asia (Bildstein, 2006). This constitutes autumn migration, where birds migrate southwards to avoid frigid winters in their […]
