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![Finch,CutThroat f [FrancisYap]](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/FinchCutThroat-f-FrancisYap-q8dfxgiuebht01ir6qzemdkbzqo50pq8nwvr1hc2nk.jpg "Finch,CutThroat f [FrancisYap]")
Francis Yap alerted us to a photograph an unfamiliar bird taken along Singapore’s Punggol grassland on 24th March 2011 that he suspected to be another exotic finch/munia species. Taken by […]
Francis Yap videoed what he thought to be Javan Munias (Lonchura leucogastroides) at the Singapore Botanic Gardens in April 2011. “This sighting was a fluke. I wasn’t expecting to find […]
On 3rd February 2011 Francis Yap encountered another exotic canary. This time, it was the Crimson-rumped Waxbill (Estrilda rhodopyga). The location? Again in Singapore’s Punggol grassland, around Lorong Halus. The […]
![GuineafowlV [Karen d'Almeida] - 2](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/GuineafowlV-Karen-dAlmeida-2-q8dgkn7iz78fdrubsrs44ixnhwe2vxrvuo6x76yh68.jpg "GuineafowlV [Karen d’Almeida] – 2")
N Sivasothi alerted BESG on Karen d’Almeida’s encounter with a Vulturine Guineafowl (Acryllium vulturinum) on 26th January 2011. Siva is of the opinion that this African bird may be an […]
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In November 2010 Francis Yap encountered the Yellow-fronted Canary (Serinus mozambicus) twice in Singapore’s Punggol grassland. He was wondering whether the canary was breeding and why some of the birds […]
GCSpyder photographed a breeding adult Red-headed Quelea (Quelea erythrops) in the latter part of March 2010 at Jalan Gemala 2, Singapore. This is an African weaver and its presence in […]
For most of 2006 and after, a Great Hornbill (Buceros bicronis) and a Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros), both had somehow escaped from captivity, were seen regularly at a patch of […]
Choo Teik Ju was at Singapore’s Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve in early November 2009 when he encountered a family of Milky Storks (Mycteria cinerea). One of the parents caught this […]
Jason Cho encountered and photographed a Blossom-headed Parakeet (Psittacula roseata) at Singapore’s Pasir Ris carpark in October 2007. This is a resident of NE India, Bangladesh, SW and S China. […]
“I read articles posted on your website about the Yellow-fronted Canary (Serinus mozambicus). I was amazed at the reports. “I have discovered a Yellow-fronted Canary at my bird feeder in […]
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