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My Singapore Lifer List (1 Viewer)

Lifer #258: Jerdon's Baza - Rare winter visitor/passage migrant to Singapore.

Photograph taken by my birding companion.
 

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Lifer #259: Swinhoe's Plover (also known as White-faced Plover) - rare winter visitor/passage migrant.

Currently classified as a sub-specie of Kentish Plover.
 

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#260: a flock of at least 6 Brown-backed Needletails - uncommon winter visitor/passage migrant to Singapore (I was along - so no photo as they were too fast and furious for my digiscoping setup)

#261: Red-rumped Swallow - uncommon winter visitor/passage migrant (photo by my birding companion who shot the swallow using his Canon 300mm f/2.8 lens).
 

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Sighted a short but wide body eagle with mostly whitish underparts being mobbed or mobbing a Oriental Honey Buzzard on December 10. Did not bother to check out what speice this could be until I saw a photograph of an identical-looking bird shot about 3 weeks earlier in a nearby location. My unexpected lifer #262 is a juvenile Rufous-bellied Eagle - a rare non-breeding visitor to Singapore :-O
 
My lifer #263 is the Pied Harrier. Saw a juvenile gliding low over the grassland and also caught a glimpse of a handsome male in flight (but much further). The Pied Harrier is considered a rare winter visitor and passage migrant to Singapore.

Lifer #264 is an escapee parakeet specie which is supposed to be very common in Argentina - Monk Parakeet. A flock of at least 8 birds were seen in flight over the coastal reclaimed grassland (with one bird seen perching on the perimeter fence of a building) which is the only location they were sighted in Singapore. As this specie has already established feral population in the UK and part of continental Europe, I reckoned they would probably also establish themselves in Singapore like the feral Red-breasted Parakeets, Rose-ringed Parakeets and Tanibar Corella which have become fairly common.
 
Got lifer #265 - Black-headed Gull which is an uncommon winter visitor/passage migrant to Singapore.
 

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I am overjoyed to be able to get a lifer on the last day of 2011. My lifer #266 is the Little-ringed Plover. This specie is supposed to be a common winter visitor/passage migrant but its occurence in Singapore is getting rarer.
 

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Got my first lifer of 2012 at Bukit Batok Nature Park this evening:

#267: Glossy Swiftlet - a rare resident of Singapore.
 
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Got two lifers today! They are:

#268: Rusty-rumped Warbler (also known as Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler) - an uncommon winter visitor to Singapore

#269: White Wagtail - a rare winter visitor to Singapore
 

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My lifer #270 is the Asian Pied Starling - an escapee species that has yet to establish a feral population in Singapore.

Lifer #271 is also an escapee species - Citron-crested Cockatoo (which is the smallest of the Yellow-crested Cockatoo sub-species).

Lifer #272 is the Ashy Drongo (leucogenis sub-species) - a rare winter visitor to Singapore.
 

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Lifer #273: Javan Pond Heron assuming breeding plummage. This species is presumably a rare winter visitor/passage migrant to Singapore. But its occurence in Singapore may not be that scarce as this species is indistinguishable from the more common Chinese Pond Heron when in non-breeding plummage. Only got a blocked image of this bird to share.
 

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Lifer #274: Rosy Starling (juvenile assuming adult plummage) - rare winter visitor to Singapore.
 

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Lifer #276: Finally got a SG lifer in the month of March. It's a male Cinnamon Bittern. Had been trying high and low to find this presumably common resident breeder in the last 2 years but to no avail. Overjoyed to have finally nailed this fellow.
 
Lifer #277: Common Tern in breeding plummage - uncommon winter visitor to Singapore.

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Lifer# 278: Lesser Green Leafbird - rarely seen in Singapore. Status: resident or non-breeding visitor?
 
Lifer # 279: Chinese Hwamei - a very rare species introduced into Singapore via the bird trade. A great song bird. Probably offsprings of birds that managed to escape.
 
Lifer # 280: Horsfield Bronze Cuckoo - A rare Austral migrant.
Lifer # 281: Common Waxbill - A recent introduced (escapee) species. Could not determine at the moment whether it has establish a feral population in Singapore.
 
Lifer #282: Mangrove Whistler - Rare resident breeder of Singapore.
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