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By the Bird Society of Singapore
Birders' Stories
January 23, 2023 by raghavnarayanswamy | 4 Comments on A Student’s Big Year
By Kaeden Sim Twitching and dipping, words I have never heard before. Now, during my Big Year (a personal challenge to see as many species of birds as possible in one calendar year), I would never be more familiar with those two words. I remember seeing Jen Wei’s Facebook post summarising his epic 2021 Big […]
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Monthly Roundups
January 16, 2023 / January 16, 2023 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment
A rather quiet December, but the first widely-twitched Red-billed Starling kept us busy this month.
Uncategorized
December 31, 2022 / August 4, 2023 by OkamotoKeitaSin | Leave a Comment
The Singapore Birds Project hopes that all of you had a great 2022, and will have an even better 2023. Thank you all for the support and see you next year!
December 22, 2022 / December 22, 2022 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment
Always among the busiest months of the migratory season, November this year didn't disappoint, with records of several rare species through the month.
Significant Records
December 10, 2022 / December 28, 2023 by OkamotoKeitaSin | 3 Comments on Singapore’s first wild Black-headed Ibis
A Black-headed Ibis was found at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve on 1 November 2022 by Art Toh. How was the bird identified? Was it wild or an escapee? In this article we share why the Singapore Bird Records Committee thinks that this is the first national record of a wild Black-headed Ibis.
Science
November 25, 2022 by OkamotoKeitaSin | Leave a Comment
Different bird in Singapore nest at different times of the year, but did you know that their nesting seasons actually differ according to sunshine hours and feeding guild? Laura from the NUS Avian Evolution Lab shares with us her findings based on a thorough analysis of a large dataset.
November 11, 2022 / November 11, 2022 by OkamotoKeitaSin | Leave a Comment
The Singapore Bird Database was launched on 11 November 2021. Here's a review of the work that we've carried out over the past year, as well as other improvements made to the database since then!
November 5, 2022 / November 5, 2022 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment
An action packed October saw several mega-rarities, including a potential national first record!
ID Articles
October 31, 2022 / December 17, 2023 by Dillen Ng | 1 Comment on FLY201: An overview of brown flycatchers in Muscicapidae
This article focuses on distinguishing the different groups (or genera) of flycatchers within the family Muscicapidae—Muscicapa, Ficedula, Cyanoptila, and Cyornis. Once you are able to tell apart the different genera, it will help narrow down the possible choices and pin down the species!
October 21, 2022 / October 21, 2022 by raghavnarayanswamy | 1 Comment on How our migrant bar charts work
In a recent post, we covered the 'why' of our migrant bar charts – what motivated us to design a new way to present migration data? In this post, we will try to explain how our methodology works, and look at some examples of the algorithm in action.
