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White-throated Kingfisher and its nesting hole

on 22nd February 2014

Dato’ Dr Amar-Singh HSS was on the way home from bird watching on 31st December 2013 when he spotted this White-throated Kingfish (Halcyon smyrnensis) sitting on a road marker.

He turned back to watch from a distance and realized that the kingfisher was using it as a convenient perch to enter and leave the nest that was about a meter up on the bank by the side of a main rural road.

Its partner was watching from the secondary growth by the roadside.

The location was at the outskirts of Gopeng in the Perak state of Malaysia – a main road leading to a rural community

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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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