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Commensal feeding: Black swan and Eurasian Coots

LW Teo
on 23rd March 2023

A Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) was seen feeding by upending its rear to stir up food items at Lake Pertobe. The black swan was attended by a party of three […]

YC Wee
on 19th March 2023

Ilsa Sharp The Nature Society (Singapore) had full media support in the 1970s and 1980s. We were fortunate to have Ilsa Sharp on our side. She was an active member […]

LW Teo
on 19th March 2023

In the post https://besgroup.org/2023/01/15/warrnambool-holiday/ Wong Kais shared a select few images of animals he encountered in Warrnambool. He visited the holiday town in March 2023 to explore other parts of […]

LW Teo
on 15th March 2023

Wong Kais visited Mount Lofty, Adelaide in 2016. During the pleasant walk he heard the loud and high pitched calls of an Eastern Spinebill, Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris. He trained his camera […]

YC Wee
on 11th March 2023

View from the summit of the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve. Much of the Malayan Nature Society (Singapore Branch)’s education programme involved conducting nature walks and lectures/seminars on various aspects of […]

LW Teo
on 10th March 2023

The Checker-throated Woodpecker (Chrysophlegma mentale) is a less commonly observed forest woodpecker. I have had some limited opportunities to watch the species in the past. On 5th March 2023, at […]

LW Teo
on 10th March 2023

A female Batik Golden Web Spider (Trichonephila antipodiana) feeding on a large Scarab beetle spotted at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve on 8 Jan 2023. Quite a large meal for a […]

YC Wee
on 8th March 2023

The Malayan Nature Society, a non-governmental, non-profit organisation, was formed in 1940 by a handful of colonial civil servants from the then Raffles Museum, Singapore Botanical Gardens, University of Malaya […]

LW Teo
on 4th March 2023

I had previously reported my observations on the diet of the Yellow-breasted Flowerpecker (Prionochilus maculatus) (see reference) which include: 1. Fruit of the Ficus racemosa (Cluster Fig), Ficus Benjamina, Ficus […]

LW Teo
on 28th February 2023

I had previously reported (Amar-Singh HSS 2016) an observation of a Pin-striped Tit-Babbler (Mixornis gularis) feeding on the fruit of the Macaranga heynei (Blue Mahang). At the time I thought […]

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