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Pasir Ris Park-Singapore

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Our first destination for observing birds in Singapore during our three week visit in March was Pasir Ris Park. It would be a great location to visit if you only had a few hours in Singapore and wanted to go beyond the airport to go bird watching. Camping is permitted in some areas, but only to residents of Singapore.

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Unethical Photographers Bait Critically Endangered Eagles

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Charlie is an amateur nature photographer from Singapore who has been birdwatching for close to 15 years now. A Grey-headed Fish Eagle photographed ethically. First, the fish had to be alive and struggling otherwise the fish eagles would ignore it. 10,000 Birds readers love terrific bird photography but hate bird abuse.

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

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During our three week visit to Singapore in March we spent a good part of each day walking and birding. No doubt they are often overlooked or mistaken for a small bird if you observe them in the distance flying through the dense canopy in Singapore. Singapore is a great place to enjoy the woodpecker family.

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Pulling Birds at Panti Forest in Malaysia

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JOHOR, MALAYSIA, DECEMBER 2012 – If you’re traveling to Singapore for birding, you might want to think outside the box or, in this case, the island. We saw a number of these distinctive raptors, along with Crested Serpent Eagles and Oriental or Crested Honey Buzzards. Malaysian raptor clinic photo courtesy of Con Foley.

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

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Sometimes I just want to hug eBird, or more specifically, whoever writes the short species descriptions (even though I am not the typical hugging kind of person, trust me on this). The Plain Sunbird is the plain vanilla version of the otherwise often very colorful family (ok, a very low-budget sort of joke). “Dull, me?

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10 Countries, 10 Top Birds in 2016

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I saw Painted Wolves again, my favourite species ever. In particular they evoke the New Hampshire lake my extended family descends upon each summer and has done so from before I was born. The Orange-fronted Parakeet is a critically endangered species that I came agonisingly close to seeing but didn’t. I went to Ethiopia.

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Birding Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town

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They are typically easy places to reach, easy to get about in, safe, and serve as a natural primer for many of the species you’re going to be seeing on a trip. This Cape Francolin was raising a family less than a hundred metres from the main gate. The gardens are particularly famous for a nesting pair of Spotted Eagle-owls.

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