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Additional Flypast at Singapore National Day Parade Preview

on 6th August 2013

“A pair of White-bellied Sea-eagles (Haliaeetus leucogaster) was seen at yesterday’s Singapore National Day Parade preview riding the thermals in plain view of the entire spectators.

“Initially one was seen, and returned a second time, with something caught and hanging by its talons.

“Subsequently a pair appeared as seen in this video below.

“Then during the aerial flypass they made their final appearance, a most significant National Day Parade for a raptor sighting.”

Steven Chong
Singapore
4th August 2013

Note: One of the pair of White-bellied Sea-eagles was a juvenile, as represented in the image at the top, photographed by KC Tsang, but not at the parade preview. The Singapore flag borne by a Chinook comes from a past parade, contributed by Ashley Ng.

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YC Wee

Dr Wee played a significant role as a green advocate in Singapore through his extensive involvement in various organizations and committees: as Secretary and Chairman for the Malayan Nature Society (Singapore Branch), and with the Nature Society (Singapore) as founding President (1978-1995). He has also served in the Nature Reserve Board (1987-1989), Nature Reserves Committee (1990-1996), National Council on the Environment/Singapore Environment Council (1992-1996), Work-Group on Nature Conservation (1992) and Inter-Varsity Council on the Environment (1995-1997). He is Patron of the Singapore Gardening Society and was appointed Honorary Museum Associate of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM) in 2012. In 2005, Dr Wee started the Bird Ecology Study Group. With more than 6,000 entries, the website has become a valuable resource consulted by students, birdwatchers and researchers locally and internationally. The views and opinions expressed in this article are his own, and do not represent those of LKCNHM, the National University of Singapore or its affiliated institutions.

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8 Responses

  1. That display by the White-belly Fish Eagles is telling humans something:
    We are an integral part of Singapore. Please give us room and freedom. Do not destroy the environment, the trees, our remaining forest. Give our Natural Heritage a chance to grow and prosper!

      1. To me, protecting & treasuring the remaining natural forest of Singapore is primary; rebuilt forests are secondary and thirdly,
        artificially-created skeletal forest is tertiary. All things natural should be protected and treasured.

        1. You don’t mean like calling for the conservation of Bidadari and Bt Brown but keeping quiet when MacRitchie is threatened???

  2. Are eagles becoming more common? I seem to see them a lot these days. I see eagles circling above the Bedok Reservoir often, and when I go down to the CBD they are also circling overhead, visible from the Benjamin Sheares Bridge. And when I touched down in Penang last month, the first bird that greeted me was an eagle, perched on the runway number sign, watching my plane land nonchalantly.

    1. Yes, me and my gang of birdwatchers. There is mainly trees in macritchie, not many birds – not interested in conserving area.

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