10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2013

Let’s take Singapore’s Changi International Airport as an example; it is a huge hub airport with large numbers of people passing through in transit to Australia, Indonesia and south-east Asia. Anyone with more than a couple of hours to kill could easily make a quick birding foray out from the airport. Destinations layover Singapore'

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Singapore Woodpeckers Parrots Zebras 159

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Charlie is an amateur nature photographer from Singapore who has been birdwatching for close to 15 years now. The purpose of using bait was to be able to capture action shots of the bird swooping in for the kill. 10,000 Birds readers love terrific bird photography but hate bird abuse. A Grey-headed Fish Eagle photographed ethically.

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Eagles Singapore Fish Ethics 269

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2013

The scene that unfolded in Kent Ridge Park in Singapore was quite gruesome to watch. Without the strong talons and bill of a hawk, they were unable to deliver a quick, killing bite. Birds Singapore White-crested Laughingthrush' Apologies to amphibian-lovers everywhere.

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Singapore Killing Animal Birds 159

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Unlike Sean the martial artist, who is still alive, our Strickland is already dead – when he went to examine the geological strata visible on a railway near Retford in the UK, he stepped out of the way of a goods train on a double track and was hit and killed by an express coming in the opposite direction.

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Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 202

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

A paper reports on how a female Common Cuckoo was mobbed and killed by Oriental Reed Warbler hosts. While to my knowledge the Large Hawk-Cuckoo only migrates through Nanhui, the Common Cuckoo stays here in summer and looks for host species, particularly the Oriental Reed Warbler.

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Birds Raised Cattle Mammals 130

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Another paper reviews information on Oriental Pied Hornbills raiding the nests of various bird species in Singapore and even pet bird cages. The latter is even captured in a somewhat gruesome video , in which the hornbill plucks a caged bird out of its cage and kills and eats it. Then she tried to feed it to the remaining chicks.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 124

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

” 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?” For good measure, some animals in the near vicinity were also named after him, such as Raffles’s Malkoha.

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Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 176