Dr Robert DeCandido<\/strong> who has done extensive migration research in Thailand. Robert wrote, \u201cWe have been counting bee-eaters in migration but not ringing them. That being said, it looks very unusual what has happened here to this Blue-tailed Bee-eater. It looks to me that someone might have been keeping this bird as a tethered pet…but that is only speculation on my part.\u201d<\/p>\nSamson has the last word: \u201c\u2026now the mystery remains. There are more than three birds that I observed having the same ring there at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. That means this is not an isolated case or mischief. Must be some kind of survey or study perhaps?\u201d Or is it?<\/p>\n
We are eager to know more about this practice and would appreciate comments from readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is the time of the year when the migratory Blue-tailed Bee-eater (Merops philippinus) arrives in Singapore. When Samson Tan was at Singapore\u2019s Botanic Gardens on the morning of the 7th November 2010 he encountered a number of Blue-tailed Bee-eaters that were ringed not around the leg but on the wing (above left) and wrote, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":13676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}