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By the Bird Society of Singapore
Checklist Revisions
January 13, 2024 / August 24, 2024 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment
The latest update of our checklist, version 2024-1, has been published. It can be accessed at our Downloads page.
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Birding Starter Pack
January 8, 2024 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment
Photos are often only one piece of the complex puzzle of bird identification. With a bit of attention to other details of a bird, you can often make it a lot easier to figure out the identity of a bird you're looking at.
Uncategorized
December 31, 2023 by OkamotoKeitaSin | Leave a Comment
The Bird Society of Singapore hopes that all of you had a great 2023!
Significant Records
December 28, 2023 / December 28, 2023 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment
The White's Thrush at Singapore Botanic Gardens presented a significant identification challenge. The Records Committee shares its take on the bird.
Monthly Roundups
December 21, 2023 / December 21, 2023 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment
Raptor watching continued to deliver in early November, with several rather cooperative (but not for everyone!) Short-toed Snake Eagles, but the highlight of the month was a likely White's Thrush at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.
ID Articles
December 19, 2023 / November 30, 2024 by OkamotoKeitaSin | 1 Comment on Some birds cannot be identified?
Some birds in Singapore are difficult to identify. Some other birds might actually be impossible to identify in the field here??
Birders' Stories
December 11, 2023 / December 11, 2023 by OkamotoKeitaSin | Leave a Comment
Jelutong Tower is one of the few places in Singapore that offers rare eye level views of canopy birds in Singapore. Jayden and Jun Ze shares their experience birding at the tower every weekend for a whole year.
November 24, 2023 / December 9, 2023 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment
Shorebirds at our raptor watch sites and better seabirds from land than from sea made for a slightly offbeat October, but the month still brought lots of expected migrants too.
Science
November 3, 2023 / November 3, 2023 by OkamotoKeitaSin | Leave a Comment
Short summary: There are some name changes in eBird that will be different from the Singapore Bird Checklist for a short period of time (Ornate Sunbird, Medium Egret and Western Hooded Pitta). This article briefly explains taxonomy in the bird world, introduces the rationale behind the species splits, and clarifies some misconceptions. The Oriental Dwarf […]
October 31, 2023 / October 31, 2023 by OkamotoKeitaSin | 2 Comments on Primary bars – an unnoticed identification feature in sparrowhawks?
Accipiter identification is fun yet challenging, and oftentimes require a combination of features. In this article we discuss a potentially useful feature that seems to have been neglected so far.
