Monthly Roundups Monthly Roundup: Mar 2024 April 22, 2024 / April 22, 2024 by raghavnarayanswamy | 2 Comments on Monthly Roundup: Mar 2024 With Chek Jawa not quite taking off (yet?) this year, March was mostly quiet with just a few lingering rarities from earlier in the season. Read more »
Monthly Roundups Monthly Roundup: Feb 2024 March 25, 2024 / March 25, 2024 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment The undoubted highlight of February 2024 was the Band-bellied Crake found by Art Toh and Choon Siang Tang at Ulu Sembawang. Read more »
Monthly Roundups Monthly Roundup: Jan 2024 February 25, 2024 / February 25, 2024 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment The year was off to a good start with a White-throated Rock Thrush on New Year's Day, and it was soon joined by other megas this month. Read more »
Monthly Roundups Monthly Roundup: Dec 2023 January 26, 2024 / January 26, 2024 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment Tufted Duck was the mega for December, but the two birds were only in view for a total of a few seconds. The wintering harriers at Tuas were a bit of a consolation prize, presenting the best views in years, and included an adult male Pied Harrier – the first wintering male in several years. Read more »
Monthly Roundups Monthly Roundup: Oct 2023 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. Read more »
Monthly Roundups Monthly Roundup: Sep 2023 October 22, 2023 / October 22, 2023 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment A good variety of species made this the best season for rare migratory shorebirds in recent years, with Asian Dowitcher, Eurasian Curlew, and Broad-billed Sandpiper all being recorded. September is also the month for Swinhoe's Storm Petrels in the Singapore Strait, with a lucky group encountering three birds on the last day of the month. Read more »
Monthly Roundups Monthly Roundup: Aug 2023 September 22, 2023 / September 22, 2023 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment August saw the return of the shorebirds and first passerine migrants to our shores. Read more »
Monthly Roundups Monthly Roundup: Jul 2023 August 24, 2023 / August 24, 2023 by raghavnarayanswamy | Leave a Comment The Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo was a lifer for many birders this July, as it has not been recorded in several years, and for those who missed the Great Slaty Woodpecker earlier this year, the one at Ulu Sembawang seems to be sticking around a lot longer. Unfortunately, the Black-thighed Falconet and White-chested Babbler were less obliging. Read more »
Monthly Roundups Monthly Roundup: Dec 2022 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. Read more »
Monthly Roundups Monthly Roundup: Nov 2022 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. Read more »