“An adult male Yellow Bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis) in the classical ‘you cannot see me’ or bitterning posture (above) – bill pointing upwards and sometimes with neck stretched vertically. I call […]
“Watched a Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea jouyi) handle a rather large fish, almost too much for the bird (below). The fish was dropped a number of times, the head stabbed […]
“This solitary Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis coromundus) did not have any colour in the plumage, not even the minimum expected non-breeding buffy-orange plumage on the cap (below). “It was also […]
“A sizable proportion of the Great Egrets (Ardea alba modesta) were in some degree of breeding plumage. The composite in the image below shows the beak and loral skin changes […]
“Yellow Bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis) foraging in Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), using it as a floating platform to get fish prey in the gaps (above, below). “Saw 3 episodes in a […]
“I observed this interesting behaviour of some egrets, a number of times, while in Borneo. An egret, often the Great Egret (Ardea alba modesta) as in this picture, would perch […]
“Even during my recent staycation in Joo Chiat area on 30th April, there was still a chance for a NatGeo moment with a rare Von Schrenck’s Bittern (Ixobrychus eurhythmus) and […]
“Pacific Reef-egrets (Egretta sacra sacra) are easy to see on the coast and river mouths of Kota Kinabalu city, Sabah, Malaysia. “A few observations: “The majority were of the dark […]
Wah Chan’s image of a Black-crowned Night-heron (Nycticorax nyctic) using a stick to stir the water is probably another example of a heron making use of a tool to bait […]
Earlier posts: 1. Introduction; 2. Sungei Buloh. One of the earliest conservation proposal completed by the Conservation Committee led by locals of the then Malayan Nature Society (Singapore Branch), now […]
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