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Sungei Buloh – Singapore’s Finest Wetlands

10,000 Birds

SINGAPORE, DECEMBER 2012 – Ask any birder where you should go birding in Singapore and the short list will always include Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve , this city-state’s finest wetlands. Since I was in Singapore in winter, Sungei Buloh seemed like the best place to kick off my introduction to Southeast Asian avifauna.

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Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea 2nd edition – A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

The bird index lumps both English and scientific names into the same body of text, but while English names follow logical Sparrow, Eurasian Tree , the scientific names follow a surprising montanus, Passer sequence. The first author, James A. Brickle is a long-time Indonesia resident, birdwatcher and conservationist from 1992 onwards.

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A long way from nowhere

10,000 Birds

Our location meant that during the height of the pearling industry here the Pearling Masters sent their “whites&# to be laundered in Singapore by sea, as that was the fastest option! For a researcher to get from Broome to Beijing it would take over 30 hours, as you would be required to fly south first!

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