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LW Teo
on 3rd April 2022

A lone, juvenile blue-crowned hanging parrot, Loriculus galgulus, was seen biting into the base of many Tabebuia rosea (rosy trumpet tree or pink poui, family Bignoniaceae) flower buds. The photographer believes […]

LW Teo
on 1st April 2022

Spotted wood owls share the same parental behaviour as most owls.  Both parents perched on the same tree as the owlets, on the same perch or a distance away.  The […]

LW Teo
on 23rd March 2022

Protagonist 1: Long-tailed shrike, Lanius schach, the predator. Protagonist 2: Brown anole, Anolis sagrei, the prey. Long-tailed shrike, Lanius schach Family Laniidae 25-28 cm long resident in Singapore. Also found in […]

LW Teo
on 18th March 2022

The colourful Mangrove Blue Flycatcher, Cyornis rufigastra, is rarely seen in Singapore.  It is a denizen of mangrove areas and only a few of these mangrove swamps are in existence in […]

LW Teo
on 27th February 2022

The spotted wood owl, Strix seloputo, is listed on the IUCN 3.1 list as a least concern species. However, the Singapore Red Data Book 2008 lists it as critically endangered […]

LW Teo
on 27th February 2022

Ria Tan of  Wildshores of Singapore shared her post on the Oriental Pied Hornbills with BESGroup and we have reproduced her article below. Ripping caterpillar pupae off a Perepat mangrove tree. We […]

K Wong
on 16th February 2022

Laced Woodpecker attacking ant nest Laced woodpecker Scientific Name                                 : Picus vittatus Malay Name                                       :  Belatuk-Hijau Bakau Chinese Name          […]

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LW Teo
on 14th February 2022

Red-breasted parakeets, Psittacula alexandri, have been feral in Singapore since 1943.  They originate from Northern Peninsula of Malaya and have been recorded to be nesting successfully since the 1980s. Parakeets […]

LW Teo
on 13th February 2022

Monk parakeets, Myiopsitta monachus, known as Quaker parrots are intelligent and social birds.  They originate from South America – Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia region – and were exported in large numbers […]

LW Teo
on 3rd February 2022

In January 2022, Yap Wai Ming witnessed an Oriental Pied Hornbill (Anthroceros albirostris) manipulating a lizard with its beak.  The lizard is probably the garden lizard Calotes versicolor. Hornbills are […]

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