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

10,000 Birds

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. Banded Woodpecker.

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

” 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). Of course, there should be a photo of a vulture here, not of a Crested Serpent-eagle. “Dull, me?” If these are taken off, the species looks just like Clark Kent.