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YC Wee
on 20th January 2013

“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, […]

YC Wee
on 29th December 2012

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 […]

YC Wee
on 21st November 2012

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 […]

YC Wee
on 19th October 2012

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 […]

YC Wee
on 13th October 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 […]

YC Wee
on 22nd September 2012

“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. […]

YC Wee
on 4th May 2012

“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; […]

YC Wee
on 15th January 2012

“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 […]

YC Wee
on 1st November 2011

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 […]

YC Wee
on 14th October 2011

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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