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LW Teo
on 6th May 2022

Bee Choo Strange visited Capella@ Sentosa with her husband on 3 May 2022 and they saw 2 Oriental Pied Hornbills (Anthracoceros albirostris) raiding the nest hole of the Dollarbird (Eurystomus […]

LW Teo
on 12th December 2021

Wong Kais captured these videos of a dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis) taking delight in the drizzle that eventually turned into a downpour.  The bird was seen on 23 January 2018 at […]

K Wong
on 11th October 2021

Dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis   Video 1  Bathing in the rain Video 2  Just after bathing in the rain. The Dollarbird belongs to the Family Coraciidae (Rollers).This Family has two genera, […]

YC Wee
on 19th March 2019

“I heard and recorded a number of Dollarbirds (Eurystomus orientalis orientalis) calls and observed their relationship to family interactions. One call that has not been mentioned in most sources is […]

YC Wee
on 14th March 2019

“The image above shows a juvenile and that below a juvenile (at right) with an adult. The juvenile bill is usually black, with an orange tip. These two juveniles I […]

YC Wee
on 11th March 2019

“I had an opportunity to watch a family of Dollarbirds (Eurystomus orientalis orientalis) this morning from 7.15 to 9.00am. They comprised an adult and two juveniles. We were unfortunately interrupted […]

YC Wee
on 5th October 2018

Flush-pursuit foraging is defined as startling prey which is then chased down and eaten (Hill, 2010). The prey can be pursued and captured on the ground or in flight. This […]

YC Wee
on 23rd July 2018

During the documentation of the pair of Dollarbirds (Eurystomus orientalis) that were defending their breeding territory at the TV antennae LINK, the video clips showed two instances of a Dollarbird […]

YC Wee
on 20th July 2018

For more than a few weeks I have been hearing a series of calls sounding like kej-kej-kej-kej-kej in rapid succession. The calls came in the early evenings and lasted minutes […]

YC Wee
on 31st December 2017

The above image by Basil Chia shows a Dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis) with a carpenter bee (Xylocopa sp.) clamped between its mandibles. An earlier post can be viewed HERE. Dollarbirds usually […]

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