On 7th March 2011, Geoff Lim sent in an image of the Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) he documented in a drain along Jalan Todak, off Upper Thomson Road. “What’s amazing is that this is behind a row of shop houses in a very urbanised part of Singapore and it appeared oblivious to the people passing by. The bird was tapping the waters with one foot as it hunts for fish and small aquatic creatures.”
Two earlier posts (with video clips) on this foot-tapping foraging strategy can be seen HERE and HERE.
Geoff Lim
Singapore
March 2011
Tou Jing Yi
I had recently counted at least 20 of these near my neighborhood at an open sewage pond, when it peaks, at an open sewage pond just 5 minutes walk from my house, I had seen 30+ of them, it seemed that they are adapting to live alongside with humans recently but that is most likely due to their serious decline in suitable natural habitats, thats why they are forced to take drains and sewage ponds instead, since they didnt get the best habitat. This is also a recent kind of observation that is so far happened for a few years in my neighborhood and the number peaks during passage months.