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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.

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

The Plain Sunbird is the plain vanilla version of the otherwise often very colorful family (ok, a very low-budget sort of joke). ” 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?”

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)

10,000 Birds

That species is apparently at risk of extinction in Singapore – not because it is so rare, but because its genetic diversity is so low. (If you want to see how this species builds its nest, see here.) These roads are much less of a hindrance for the Pin-striped Tit-babbler , a mid-story bird.

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