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Birding Pulau Ubin-Singapore

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There are also wild boars and macaque monkeys and you are advised to not rustle plastic bags, because they associate the noise with food. We returned down the same road and all other areas around the island were easily accessible. We started our day by walking from the main jetty to Chek Jawa Wetlands.

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Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park and Lower Peirce Reservoir-Singapore

10,000 Birds

Even before we entered the park we had seen Black-naped Orioles , Tree Sparrows , Large-billed Crow , Javan Myna, Orange-bellied Flowerpecker, Olive-backed Sunbird and an Oriental Dollarbird. There were wild boars and monitors rustling through the leaves as well as the plantain squirrels that we had become so accustomed to.

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Prespa Lakes National Park, Greece: the largest Dalmatian Pelican colony in the world

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whose occupants have already left for Africa, but a clump of elaborate closed nests of Spanish Sparrows hang underneath it. Checking the birds on the stork’s nest, I found both House and Spanish Sparrows. Finally, a large White Stork’s nest (at 850 m a.s.l!) At the end of the causeway and up Mt. Maps and guides.

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Birding the Little Rann of Kutch

10,000 Birds

Back on dirt tracks by a Desert Wheatear decorated bush (bellow), to spot five or six Wild boars disappearing among the bushes. Ashy-crowned Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix grisea. House Swift Apus affinis. Lesser) Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis. Small) Green Bee-eater Merops orientalis. Indian Roller Coracias bengalensis.

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