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The beautiful Emerald Dove Chalcophaps indica is a widespread and fairly common resident, breeding in tropical southern Asia from the Indian subcontinent east to Indonesia and northern and eastern Australia. They usually occur in forested areas, and though wary (and probably under-reported in public forests where visitors tend to be noisy and move too fast [...]

A few months ago (actually it was Nov 4th, so only a week or so ago, it just feels much longer) I went to Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (SBWR) in north-west Singapore - a protected area of mangroves just across the Johor(e) Strait from the Malayan mainland - and posted some ‘mood’ photos and a [...]

Coming from the UK where our reptiles are rarely thicker than a USB cable and only fearsome if you happen to be the size of a fruit fly, one common denizen of Singapore’s wonderful Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (which I was fortunate to visit last week) that never fails to fascinate me is the Asian [...]

When I was at Singapore’s wonderful (and, as more mangroves are cut down, increasingly important) Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve a few days ago, I came across a Milky Stork Mycteria cinerea feeding quietly in a low-tide channel in the middle of the reserve. Like (I suspect) many readers of 10,000 Birds I knew very little [...]

I spent the morning in glorious sunshine (and the afternoon in a tropical storm!) at the wonderful Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve in northern Singapore (which being a small island isn’t far from southern Singapore in fact which makes access nice and easy…). Sungei Buloh protects one of the last patches of mangroves and tidal mudflat [...]

Back on my travels again after a short break at home, and I’m off East: to Singapore and then (for a whole day!) to Sydney, Australia. And the timing couldn’t be much better, as I arrived in Singapore just a week after the 25th Singapore Bird Race. The winning team, ‘Strix’, managed to find a [...]

Following my adventure in Malaysia’s Panti Forest and the sighting of the barely-known “White-faced Plover” on Singapore’s Changi Beach on March 22nd, I still had the morning of the 23rd available before flying down to Sydney, Australia (and the 27th when I’d be back in Singapore before flying to the UK). Normally I may well [...]

There are (currently) 26 members of the Meropidae, the Bee-eaters - an extraordinary family of aerial acrobats with plumages that for the most part capture pure sunlight and throw it back to the observer in a stunning range of greens, yellows, and carmine-reds. With the exception of just a handful of more ’shy and retiring’ [...]

Unless you spend a lot of time surfing websites you may not have noticed a remarkable article which appeared on the Surfbirds website a couple of months ago. Written by Peter Kennerley and Dave Bakewell, the article was titled “Malaysia’s mystery plover” and opened with the sentence: “Is it possible that a small plover, not [...]

 
Organisation: The Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES), Singapore. http://www.acres.org.sg
 
Who are we? The Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES) was founded by a group of Singaporeans and registered as a society on 24th May 2001 (Registration No.: 176/2001). It was registered under the Charities Act on 11th January 2005 (Registration No.: 1849) [...]

Blue-winged Pitta Pitta moluccensis
Singapore Botanic Gardens, 24 February 2006
 
In the middle of January 2006 an absurdly showy Blue-winged Pitta Pitta moluccensis was found over-wintering in the Singapore Botanic Gardens, remaining faithful to a small area of low, dank vegetation in a section of the gardens called the Ginger Garden. Over the next few weeks every [...]

Short-tailed Babbler Malacocincla malaccensis
Central Catchment Forest Reserve, Singapore.
19 December 2005

The Short-tailed Babbler Malacocincla malaccensis occurs in the Sundaic lowlands, from southern Tenasserim, Myanmar, peninsular Thailand, Sabah, Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Kalimantan (including the Natunas and Anamba islands) and Sumatra (including offshore islands), Indonesia and Brunei, where it is generally very common in lowland evergreen [...]

Central Catchment Nature Reserve, Singapore
19 December 2005

I’ve just spent nine days at home on “standby” - ie not knowing where I’d get sent just before Christmas: it’s a worry, I tell you!

To cut a rather long story short (I can hear the cheers from here you ungrateful sods - these reports take ages to write [...]

Pink-necked Green Pigeon Treron vernans
Singapore. Several dates.
 
The Pink-necked Green Pigeon Treron vernans is distributed within Southeast Asia - from Southern Myanmar, to the Malay peninsula and Singapore, to Sulawesi, the Philippines and Borneo.

The only commonly seen green pigeon in Singapore (it’s always worth checking flocks of Pink-necked for the locally scarce Thick-billed Green [...]

Singapore Botanic Gardens
07:30 - 12:00, 09 August 2005

With just a few hours spare before a flight down to Melbourne I decided to have a look around the renowned Singapore Botanic Gardens (SBG) - a mix of manicured plantings and remnant rainforest located about twenty minutes by taxi from the city centre.

It’s probably worth pointing [...]