“Here’s an uncommon winter visitor hanging out at a monsoon pond in a disused area at Seletar. The Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus) has a long bill for probing into mud, […]
Lena Chow‘s video clip of the Australian Pied Oystercatcher (Haematopus longirostris) was taken at Perth’s Rottnest Island around August this year. The oystercatcher was patrolling the shores of an inland […]
The end of the year is the migratory season LINK and Lena Chow is busy documenting the arrival of the shorebirds. The above video shows a small flock of another […]
This is the migrating reason and we are seeing the arrivals of many shorebirds in Singapore. The following video clips were sent in by Lena Chow, documented during September 2012 […]
“The migratory season is hotting up with the arrival of more and more migratory birds at end September 2012. On this stretch of river bed that had been exposed by […]
“Was at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserves on Tuesday 18th September 2012 observing migrant birds which mostly consist of waders. However did catch sight of a Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) nearby. […]
“According to Wikipedia, the Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) forages by sight on the ground or in shallow water, picking up small food items such as insects, crustaceans and other invertebretes; […]
“The Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) breeds April to July, and only north of the Tropic of Cancer (Shorebirds, John Marchant et al, 1986). In the Thai-Malaysian Peninsular, including Singapore, it […]
The migratory season is on and the waders are plentiful at the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. Lena Chow was there at the beginning of October 2011 and encountered several hundreds […]
Lena Chow‘s earlier post on the foraging behaviour of the Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) shows the bird probing into the burrows of crabs LINK. In this video clip, Lena captures the […]
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