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