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Found from northeast Indian subcontinent, central China to Taiwan and winters Southeast Asia Habitat: Forest, parks, gardens and wooded areas. Behaviour/Ecology: Frequents the middle and lower storeys usually near streams. Local Status: Uncommon migrant

Range: Found throughout northern temperate Europe and Asia, wintering to equatorial Africa, Middle East, Indian subcontinent, southern China, Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia. Habitat: Lakes, rivers, marshes and various wetland habitats. Behaviour/Ecology: Seldom flies off when disturbed, preferring to drift out to deeper parts in centre of water body. Local Status: Vagrant

Widespread. Turkey, Iraq, Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Indian subcontinent, South-west China and throughout South-east Asia Habitat: Marshes, cultivated land, grassland, wasteland, margin of lakes, ponds and large rivers. Behaviour/Ecology: Usually found in pairs or family parties. Sharp, incessant vocalization when alarmed. Local Status: Common resident

Found from Eastern Russia, China, Japan to Korea, wintering to mainland Southeast Asia and Indonesia. Habitat: Well-wooded areas, secondary growth and forest edge. Behaviour/Ecology: Feeds on insects, lizards, small birds and rodents. Local Status: Common migrant

Found from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, southern China to Southeast Asia with some northerly populations wintering south. Habitat: Forests, gardens, parks, wooded areas and mangroves. Behaviour/Ecology: Feeds on insects, lizards, fishs, and amphibians. Often visits forest streams at dusk to bathe. Local Status: Uncommon migrant and very rare visitor Conservation Status: Near Threatened (BirdLi...

Local Status: Uncommon resident Habitat: Various wetlands like lakes, marshes and ponds. Behaviour/Ecology: Very gregarious. Can form big flocks in suitable habitat

Slides of birds including a video of Trumpeter Hornbill calling

A birding day at Mandai Bird Paradise from 9:30am to 5:30pm Using my Sony A7IV with sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 len

In Singapore, it is widespread and common even in urban areas, where it lives in the roof spaces of buildings and forages in gardens. They travel between houses via telephone wires, poles and trees. It is also found in forest, scrubland, parks and mangroves. More active at night and tends to stay in the trees and high places As a fruit eater, it helps to disperse seeds and contributes to the re...

09-04-2024 Mandai Bird Paradise

Plain, sandy-brown babbler with distinct orange-tan tones to the sides. Note grayish tones to the face and the large heavy bill with a hooked tip. Prefers degraded and secondary forest, where it forages quite slowly and methodically on or near the ground, without the frenetic energy of some other babblers. Moves singly or in pairs. Call repertoire is wide, and includes harsh churrs as well as s...

The Drongo Cuckoo is a nest parasite, with the female laying her eggs in the nest of the Pin-striped Tit-babbler. The former is about twice the size of the latter. Within a few days of hatching, the cuckoo chick would have outgrown the host. It is a sight to behold, seeing the smaller adult feeding the larger fledgling, whose reddish gape is large enough to contain the head of the foster parent...

Breeds in Europe, Asia and North America. Extensive wordwide distribution in non-breeding season. A rather distinctive smallish, stocky shorebird with a short stout wedge-shaped blackish bill. It has short orange legs and feet. In breeding plumage it has reddish-brown upperparts and bold black-and-white pattern on head and neck. LIkes to flip over rocks, shells, seaweed and other debris to catc...

Range: Found from Bangladesh, Myanmar, the Thai-Malay Peninsula to Sumatra. Local Status: Uncommon resident Location: Uncommon at the mangroves of Pulau Ubin, Pulau Tekong and possibly Pulau Semakau. Also sighted at the mangroves of Pasir Ris Park in 2012 and non-mangroves area like Singapore Botanic Gardens and Lower Pierce Reservoir Boardwalk in 2014.

Coppersmith Barbet 赤胸拟啄木鸟 Feeding the chick

Lineated Barbet 斑头绿拟啄木鸟

Straw headed Bulbul calling

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Black capped lory Mating

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Collared Kingfisher 白领翡翠

Little Ringed Plover 金眶鸻

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White rumped Shama Calling

Javan Pond Heron

Black headed Ibis

Plaintive Cuckoo 八声杜鹃

Oriental Pratincole

Lineated Barbet