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Pasir Ris Park-Singapore

10,000 Birds

We started our Singapore bird list at Pasir Ris and leaving the train station we were delighted to see several Cattle Egrets on the grass and several photographers. There is a massive nest at the top of a tower beside the Sports Centre and a family of Monk Parakeets have taken up residence. Common Sandpiper. Monk Parakeet.

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Cockatoo Creek

10,000 Birds

The egret family were represented by the Great Egrets , Intermediate Egrets and a lone Cattle Egret. Cattle Egret. The highlight of the brief stop was seeing not just Zebra Finch dripping down to drink at the dam, but also Star Finch. There were also Australasian Darters and Little Pied Cormorants. Ducks, Ibis and Egrets.

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Wolfe Creek Crater birding

10,000 Birds

This is cattle country and it is actually fenced, which many parts of the Kimberley are not and you pass through Ruby Plains and then Carranya station to reach the crater. This was prolific with flowering trees, which were mostly Grevillea refracta and a favourite food for the honeyeater family of birds. Heading around the rim.

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Tanzania – Africa at its best

10,000 Birds

Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in such living detail; tall, red-robed Maasai herding their skinny cattle, endless grasslands studded with flat-topped Acacia trees and grazed by herds of zebras and wildebeest, and dramatic volcanic calderas brimming with big game and fierce predators!

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Birding the Dampier Downs Road

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Grey-crowned Babblers are usually in family groups of eight and are easily heard as you travel along the track. Crested Pigeons and Diamond Doves flew across the track in search of water and there were also Zebra Finch and Long-tailed Finch. There have been Crimson Chats on the track as well, but they appear to have dispersed now.

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Duncan’s 2014 List

10,000 Birds

For the moment I’ll stick with the split babbler families although I may relump the laughingthrushes, ground and tree babblers per Molye et al (2012). Species are listed by family according to the order eBird spits them out to me in. Cattle Egret ( Bubulcus ibis ); Lahad Datu, Borneo, 1 January.

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Collaborative list – August 2018

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Can the whole family live together in harmony during the school holidays? Zebra Dove – Geopelia striata. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Zebra Finch – Taeniopygia guttata. August is the make or break month for relationships. Bravo if you have. 12 Jun 2018.

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