A Leisurely BY 2022 from Herman and Kit

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270/sg181. Square-tailed Drongo Cuckoo, Dairy Farm Nature Park

 

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271/SG182. Violet Cuckoo, Dairy Farm NP

 

A rare resident bird.

 

 

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272/SG183. Cattle Egret, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve

 

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273/SG184. Javan Munia, Lorong Halus

 

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274/SG185. Monk Parakeet, Changi Bay

 

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275/SG186. Indian Pond Heron, Dover

 

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276/SG187. House Sparrow, East Coast

 

An introduced species from long time ago, but with only a small remaining population

 

 

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129/SG188. Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Eastwood

 

A native species but numbers are declining. we used to get quite a handful in our garden but they've vanished and we see only 3 or four a couple of times a year. 

 

 

 

 

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277/sg189. Milky Stork, Sungei Buloh WR

278/SG190. Painted Stork, SUngei Buloh WR

 

These two species are often seen together. 

 

Milky: 

 

Painted

 

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154/SG191. Barn Swallow, Turut Track

 

counted in the cambodian segment. 

 

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279/SG192. Black-naped Tern, Pulau Ubin

 

 

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280/SG193. White-winged Tern, Singapore Straits

 

 

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130/SG194. Baya Weaver, Lorong Halus

 

already in the cambodian list

 

 

we find the baya weaver nests really well constructed

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now for a slice of Africa! all of which are doing so well in our island city, to the detriment of local munias, sadly.

 

281/SG195. Common Waxbill, Changi Bay

 

 

 

282/SG196. Crimson-rumped Waxbill, Changi Bay

 

 

 

283/SG197. Orange-cheeked Waxbill, Gardens by the Bay

 

 

284/SG198. Golden-backed Weaver, Lorong Halus

 

 

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285/SG199. Pin-tailed Whydah, Changi Bay

 

Still surviving, but taking refuge in the Changi Airport perimeter. the security officials had to keep emerging from the gates to stop photographers from taking shots of the perimeter wall and security fences or inside the airport grounds! but no one can stop the male whydah flirting with the pretty female.

 

 

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286/SG200. Common Flameback, Changi Business Park/Pulau Ubin

 

The regular home resident hasn't appeared so far this year, but this is one of our more attractive woodpeckers. 

 

[Galana]

Love the violet Cuckoo. Quite striking.

I need a new 'like' button.

[TonyQ]

Stunning additions, The Barbet! The Black-naped Tern is lovely

[pedro maia]

Great photos, love the cuckos and the barbet.

[Kitsafari]

Thanks @Galana @TonyQ  @pedro maia !

On 5/22/2022 at 9:22 PM, TonyQ said:

Stunning additions, The Barbet! The Black-naped Tern is lovely

 

 

The terns are actually nesting and breeding on this small rocky outcrop in the sea, just a way from the eastern shores. the photographers are able to hire a boat which goes as close as it can to the terns and the terns are so used to the boats that they ignore the boats and their occupants.  

[PeterHG]

Beautiful additions!

[lmSA84]

As always a fascinating list and brilliant photography from Herman. Good luck with your next trip 

[Kitsafari]

Just wanted to share the photo of the handsome and bright male Blue-Crowned Hanging Parrot, already counted as no 243. That was a photo of the female. It is incredibly hard to spot these tiny parrots (about 14cm long) as their bright green plumage makes the perfect camouflage in the dense green trees here. we often hear them but it was always hard to get them in a clear open spot. Well until a few days when they couldn't resist the fragrance of the fruiting rambutan tree in our neighbour's backyard. the smart little birds picked away the shell, threw it out and then fed on the juicy sweet flesh.

 

   

 

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we recently returned from Canada on a jaunt to the Floe's Edge to camp on the frozen Arctic Ocean in the hopes of seeing polar bears, narwhal whales, belugas and bowhead whales. Unfortunately, the weather conditions and the inaptness of the expedition organiser let us down and we didn't see a shadow of those mammals. we did see two arctic Foxes which was amazingly delightful, and seals. Birdlife was paltry at the floe's edge. we were promised we would go to bylot island's bird sanctuary but we didn't even get a sniff of it mainly because we didn't have the days for them. Still we had a great time just sitting at the edge looking at the birds flying in and out. we didn't get many birds in Canada so i won't even bother count them separately. 

 

287. Glaucous Gull, Pond Inlet/Floe's Edge

These are large birds - they rivalled even the ravens in size! and kittiwakes looked like tiny tots next to them. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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288. Thayer's Gull, Floe's Edge

 

A sub-species of Iceland Gull, they looked small next to the glaucous gull.