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![FalconetBT [LeongTziMing]](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/FalconetBT-LeongTziMing-q8dfjkgpegh9fhp4aqtvrvr3yr4v9ql1f5tfq9xils.jpg "FalconetBT [LeongTziMing]")
“Every morning, the resident population of Glossy Swiftlets (Collocalia esculenta) in Malaysia’s Fraser’s Hill greets the dawn by emerging from their communal roost and circling around the treetops to stretch […]
![Richard's Pipit? [AmarSingh]](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Richards-Pipit-AmarSingh-1-q8dg57ows43ys898wlnlox48f6g5itiiqamyknu5bk.jpg "Richard’s Pipit? [AmarSingh]")
“I have been looking at almost every Pipit I have come across, for years, to try and identify any migratory Richard’s Pipit (Anthus richardi) from our local Paddyfield Pipit (Anthus […]
Scaly-breasted Munias (Lonchura punctulata) (above) are seed eaters, especially grass seeds LINK. A pair of adults regularly visits my garden hopping around foraging for grass seeds. In this instance it […]
![PloverLR-feed behav [AmarSingh]](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/PloverLR-feed-behav-AmarSingh-1-q8dfkovrkc0laq2eqqau93jxiblngq1hwpvbd69l68.jpg "PloverLR-feed behav [AmarSingh]")
“I was watching some plovers today and was delighted to be able to document the ‘foot-trembling’ feeding method of the Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius curonicus). “This feeding method has […]
![Acherontia styx medusa [LeongTziMing]](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Acherontia-styx-medusa-LeongTziMing-q8dg23u46tuuemrq1razy7cdqbrh2u6gmx06gqfzw0.jpg "Acherontia styx medusa [LeongTziMing]")
The earlier posting on “Death’s Head Hawk Moth – pupal development” identified the moth as Acherontia lachesis. This is incorrect. According to Dr Leong Tzi Ming, it should be Acherontia […]
![ImperialPigeonP-AlexPalm fr [wyc] 1](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/ImperialPigeonP-AlexPalm-fr-wyc-11-q8dfv21oxk7fbx0d7plq8zdxcaidck6xo0v2w0wak0.jpg "ImperialPigeonP-AlexPalm fr [wyc] 1")
On 12th July at 1800 hours, two Pied Imperial-pigeons (Ducula bicolor) flew silently to the same Alexandra Palm (Archontophoenix alexandrae) that was visited by three of them two days earlier […]
![OPH m SianTuan {wyc] - 05](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/OPH-m-SianTuan-wyc-05-q8dg55t8eg1e50bz7kucjxlb8epf3fb221bzm3wxo0.jpg "OPH m SianTuan {wyc] – 05")
For sometime now a pair of Oriental Pied Hornbills (Anthracoceros albirostris), sometimes accompanied by a juvenile, regularly visit Sian Tuan Avenue (above: male, below: female). Their cries can be heard […]
Sun Chong Hong compiled the following calls and songs by the Yellow-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier) that were posted in this website, adding two new ones: 1. Juvenile call recorded by […]
The Asian Koel (Eudynamys scolopacea) is a large bird that is extremely shy. When it senses someone is looking at it, it immediately moves behind a branch or leaves. This […]
Richard White documented a termite hatch on video on 28th October 2015 at Singapore Botanic Gardens’ Palm Valley. The following is his account… “It was a late afternoon emergence of […]
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