10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The mundane details that actually allow a trip to happen are tedious, but researching all those potential birds… huge fun! Because I’ll be birding Japan this weekend en route to Singapore! Your theoretical trip list will always be so much more extensive and exotic than your actual list. Why is travel on my mind?

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New Zealand Singapore 2012 Japan 133

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2021

Rheindt is a field ornithologist, former guide and currently Associate Professor and Dean’s Chair at the National University of Singapore, with a research focus on avian phylogenetics and conservation genetics. Brickle is a long-time Indonesia resident, birdwatcher and conservationist from 1992 onwards.

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Indonesia Timor Brunei Guinea 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Fortunately for the honor of the species, the researchers found that kleptoparasitism was practiced at a low rate (4% of observations) while much more often, drongos captured insects disturbed by other species (41% of observations).

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Sri Lanka Birds Taiwan Cats 213

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Another paper reviews information on Oriental Pied Hornbills raiding the nests of various bird species in Singapore and even pet bird cages. In fact, a recent article in the Economist on Singapore’s rewilding states “The oriental pied hornbill (pictured), with its extraordinary ivory casque, had been locally extinct for a century.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 127

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

” If you have ever been to Singapore, you will know that about half the places there are named after Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (1781 – 1826). “Dull, me?” For good measure, some animals in the near vicinity were also named after him, such as Raffles’s Malkoha.

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Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 186

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The archipelago consists of 17,000 islands stretching out over 2500 miles along the Equator with a varied history of avian research and study, most on the under- or not-studied side. So, this is no ordinary bird guide. Where is the Indonesian Archipelago? And, Frank E. Conclusion.

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Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 126

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

One proposed explanation by the researchers for this phenomenon is that similar-looking birds reduce their risk of predation, as predators find it more difficult to focus on and isolate a single target. That species is apparently at risk of extinction in Singapore – not because it is so rare, but because its genetic diversity is so low.

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Burma Birds Vietnam Laos 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Our location meant that during the height of the pearling industry here the Pearling Masters sent their “whites&# to be laundered in Singapore by sea, as that was the fastest option! For a researcher to get from Broome to Beijing it would take over 30 hours, as you would be required to fly south first!

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2011 Australia Deer New York 144

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2023

The male Asian Koel has a rather distinctive call which for me is almost the sound of Singapore. of researchers looking for chemical contaminants in the environment. Of course, what is shown here (and in the video ) is a female – kind of typical for this blog.

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Birds China Research Tenant 130

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

And in what seems to me to be a rather far-out paper , some Chinese researchers have developed a camouflaged short-range communication method based on the imitation of Verditer Flycatcher songs. I am not making this up. Like the other malkohas, it is not a brood parasite despite being a cuckoo.

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Birds Eagles Mammals Singapore 214