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Postings your observations and images – Bird Ecology Study Group

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Skip to Main Content. Credits & Thanks. Postings your observations and images. Why should you post your observations and images? Southeast Asian birds are poorly studied in terms of behaviour and ecology. By posting your observations (and this include images), you will be contributing to the knowledge of local birds. By making your observations and images publicly available, ornithologists can have access to them and thus use them in their writings. We have been blogging for five years now. Contribut...

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Oriental Magpie-robin bathing and an Eurasian Tree-sparrow with crooked leg… – Bird Ecology Study Group

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Skip to Main Content. Credits & Thanks. Oriental Magpie-robin bathing and an Eurasian Tree-sparrow with crooked leg. I was passing by the Eco-Lake at the Botanic Gardens this afternoon at about 2 pm. The lake seems to have filled up nicely after the drought earlier this year, and given recent heavy rains, the lake-bed is densely covered by aquatic plants (. The Lesser Whistling-ducks (. A White-throated Kingfisher (. Was hunting quietly (without the triumphal call of the Collared Kingfisher (. What seeme...

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Stick and Stones - Tablet Magazine – Jewish News and Politics, Jewish Arts and Culture, Jewish Life and Religion

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Visual Art and Design. Representations of women in Romania’s Jewish cemeteries. By Ruth Ellen Gruber. September 30, 2009 7:00 AM. Painted gravestones in the Jewish cemetary in Radauti, Romania. Radauti is the town from which my father’s parents emigrated to the United States before World War I, but this, for me, was not supposed to be a roots trip. Nor was I consciously fulfilling the tradition of visiting the tombs of my ancestors around the time of the High Holidays. Another aim is more reflective....

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Videography – Bird Ecology Study Group

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Skip to Main Content. Credits & Thanks. Tanimbar Corella uses tool to get at the coconut kernel. Ang Siew Siew documented a Tanimbar Corrella (Cacatua goffini) digging into a coconut in an earlier post. She returned to the Sentosa Waterfront site a few days later and returned with a major ornithological discovery – a tool using corella, … Continued. Pin-tailed Parrotfinch feeding on bamboo seeds. LIfe cycle of the Common Redeye butterfly. Posted in: Butterflies and Moths. The Red-crowned Barbet (Megalaim...

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Nature Society: The struggle for Singapore’s nature areas – Bird Ecology Study Group

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Skip to Main Content. Credits & Thanks. Nature Society: The struggle for Singapore’s nature areas. The above paper has just been published. Is a peer-reviewed, online journal that publishes articles on the flora and fauna (e.g., biology, botany, zoology, ecology and conservation biology) of Singapore. A PDF copy of the paper can be obtained from the website of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, National University of Singapore, by clicking HERE. Unfortunately, only an abstract is available in t...

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Crimson-breasted and Yellow-breasted Flowerpeckers feeding on Melastoma malabathricum fruits – Bird Ecology Study Group

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Skip to Main Content. Credits & Thanks. Crimson-breasted and Yellow-breasted Flowerpeckers feeding on Melastoma malabathricum fruits. Many flowerpecker came to feed on the Straits Rhododendron (. 8220;Top and above show a male Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker (. Feeding, while below is the female. Another visitor to the Straits Rhododendron was the Yellow-breasted Flowerpecker (. A male (below). But more shy and much less often seen. Locally near threatened (Wells 2007). Dato’ Dr Amar-Singh HSS. LEAF MONKEY...

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The Birds of Singapore – an online book – Bird Ecology Study Group

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Skip to Main Content. Credits & Thanks. The Birds of Singapore – an online book. In May 1943, GC Madoc. Published An Introduction to Malayan Birds. He wrote his manuscript in Singapore’s Changi Prison where he was interned when the country fell into the hands of the Japanese Imperial Army. Only a single copy was produced, typed on paper stolen from the Japanese commandant’s office. With today‘s launching of the The Birds of Singapore. The brainchild of ornithologist Slim Sreedharan. Well, this is an exci...

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Should attempts be made to tame wild birds? – Bird Ecology Study Group

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Skip to Main Content. Credits & Thanks. Should attempts be made to tame wild birds? Of the series by aviculturist Lee Chiu San. Deals with whether birds can be tamed and whether they will remain tamed. The second part. Looks at whether it is desirable to tame birds. This third and final part deals with whether attempts should be made to tame wild birds. 8220;These are some of the problems I have encountered. 8220;And by the way, feeding of pigeons outside your own home is illegal. And Javan Myna (. Will ...

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Documenting bird calls and songs – Bird Ecology Study Group

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Skip to Main Content. Credits & Thanks. Documenting bird calls and songs. Many local birdwatchers are able to recognise the birds behind the songs. However, interest in most cases ends there except for a few who make basic recordings. Posted the first account on vocalisation as far back as October 2007. We had a post. After this encouraging birdwatchers to enter the world of bird calls and songs. A few responded, among whom are Lena Chow. Who posted an account on the subsong of a juvenile Tiger Shrike (.

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Archives – Bird Ecology Study Group

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Skip to Main Content. Credits & Thanks. On Malayan Water Monitor visits condominium pool. On Malayan Water Monitor visits condominium pool. Amar-Singh HSS (Dato' Dr). On Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker Nesting Observations. On Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker Nesting Observations. On Monitoring Series of Blue-winged Pitta 2016: Successful Fledging of Blue-winged Pitta Chicks – Part 1. On Monitoring Series of Blue-winged Pitta 2016: Successful Fledging of Blue-winged Pitta Chicks – Part 1. Amar-Singh HSS (Dato' Dr).