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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 […]
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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 […]
October 6, 2021 / August 31, 2022 by movin92 | Leave a Comment
Extinction is an evocative word, with some of the world’s most iconic birds such as the Dodo Raphus cucullatus and the Passenger Pigeon Ectopistes migratorius having achieved infamy for the dubious distinction of belonging to this category. Though the term often implies a sense of permanent loss, there are scenarios where extinction is not forever. […]
September 2, 2021 / December 3, 2021 by OkamotoKeitaSin | 1 Comment on An Indonesian Archipelago Wishlist: Birds to Look Out For
The recent sighting of the Javan Plover Charadrius javanicus at a reclaimed site northeast of Singapore island was exciting yet unsurprising. Exciting because it was a first for Singapore and continental Southeast Asia that caught everyone off guard (then again, none of us are really prepared for megas!) and unsurprising because this is a species […]
August 13, 2021 / December 3, 2021 by OkamotoKeitaSin | Leave a Comment
By Goh Cheng TengEdited by Keita Sin & Lester Tan The Malaysian Plover Charadrius peronii is a small shorebird that inhabits coastal sandy areas and rocky shores. It is the only resident breeding plover in Singapore island and can be reliably found along the man-made seawall at Marina East. They are classified globally as Near […]
September 18, 2020 / August 19, 2023 by Dillen Ng | 1 Comment on Rufous Barn Swallows in Singapore?
TLDR; There are several records of Barn Swallows with rufous underparts in Singapore Relationships between the different Barn Swallow subspecies are still being explored – we are uncertain of which subspecies the rufous birds seen in Singapore belong to In the meantime, please share your sightings if you come across any of these rarer migrants! […]
September 5, 2018 / August 4, 2023 by Francis Yap | 2 Comments on First breeding record of the Barred Eagle-Owl in Singapore Island
The Barred Eagle-Owl (Bubo sumatranus) is a relatively small eagle-owl that is found from southern Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and southwards to Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland rainforests. It has also been reported in secondary growth, abandoned orchards, oil palm plantations and wooded gardens, showing its adaptability towards human encroachments. […]
March 1, 2016 / January 4, 2024 by Francis Yap | 2 Comments on Local extinctions of Singapore birds
There is an interesting paper recently published in the prestigious journal Conservation Biology by members of two National University of Singapore (NUS) labs titled “A robust non-parametric method for quantifying undetected extinctions” that came to our attention. In it, they presented a novel method of estimating undetected extinction, i.e. the type of extinction events that […]
