See Toh's 2012 Singapore list (2 Viewers)

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First day of birding in the late afternoon around the northern part of Singapore (Neo Tiew Lane 2, Kranji Nature Trail and Sungei Buloh) on January 2nd:

1. Javan Myna
2. Common Myna
3. Black-naped Oriole
4. White-bellied Sea Eagle
5. White-breasted Waterhen
6. Yellow-vented Bulbul
7. Asian Glossy Starling
8. Spotted Dove
9. Red-breasted Parakeet
10. Lesser Whistling Duck
11. Brown Shrike
12. Little Tern
13. Lesser Coucal
14. Red-collared Dove
15. Osprey
16. Ashy Tailorbird
17. Common Sandpiper
18. Collared Kingfisher
19. Common Greenshank
20. Whimbrel
21. Little Egret
22. Common Redshank
23. Pacific Golden Plover
24. Marsh Sandpiper
25. Great Egret
26. Pacific Swallow

 

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Did some birding in the evening (3 Jan) at a carpark with some scattered trees (Harding Road) while waiting for my wife:

27. Lineated Barbet
28. Common Hill Myna
29. Brahminy Kite
30. Pink-necked Green Pigeon

 

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Visited a stream in the central catchment forest on Jan 4 (evening) but only managed to spot 2 specie:

31. Short-tailed Babbler
32. Siberian Blue Robin

 

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Made a trip down to Singapore Botanic Gardens in the evening of 5 Jan and got the following:

33. Rock Pigeon
34. Red-legged Crake
35. Orange-headed Thrush

 

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January 6, 2012

On the way to work, got the following:

36. Eurasian Tree Sparrows
37. House Crow
38. Cattle Egret

Sighted these two specie when visiting a forest trail in our Central Catchment Forest (Venus Drive) in the evening:

39. Emerald Dove
40. Greater Racket-tailed Drongo

 

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January 7

Climbed up the highest hill of Singapore (ie Bukit Timah Hill) this morning with the hope of adding the rare non-breeding visitor Rufous-bellied Eagle into my 2012 list. Unfortunately, it appeared before I reached the hilltop and did not show up again. Nevertheless, got the following instead:

On the hilltop
41. Germain's Swiftlet
42. Asian Brown Flycatcher
43. Crimson Sunbird
44. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
45. Fork-tailed Swift
46. Red-rumped Swallow
47. Blue-rumped Parrot (flew past in a flash)

Down the hill at Hindehe Quarry
48. Striped-tit Babbler
49. Blue-throated Bee-eater
50. Pied Fantail

Bukit Batok Nature Park
51. Purple-throated Sunbird
52. Grey-rumped Treeswift
53. Barn Swallow
54. White-crested Laughingthrush
55. Lace Woodpecker
56. Banded Woodpecker

 

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January 8

Tried my luck at an open grassland at Jurong West Street 22 this morning and got the following:

57. Paddyfield Pipit
58. Zitting Cisticola
59. Zebra (Peaceful) Dove
60. Common Snipe
61. Blue-tailed Bee-eater
62. Scaly-breasted Munia
63. Painted Snipe
64. Asian Palm Swift
65. Intermediate Egret

Made a short trip to the coastal mudflat at Seletar Dam in the evening and sighted:

66. Lesser Sand (Mongolian) Plover
67. Peregrine Falcon
68. Grey Heron
69. Little (Straited) Heron

 

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January 9

A short visit to Pulau Punggol in the north-eastern part of Singapore in the evening yielded the following:

70. House Swift
71. White-throated Kingfisher

 

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January 10
Visited Bukit Batok Nature Park and got:

72. Glossy Swiftlet (Lifer)
73. Straw-headed Bulbul

 

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January 14 - Seletar Dam (Coastal mudflat located in the north-eastern part of Singapore)

74. Greater Sand Plover
75. Dollarbird
76. Asian Koel
77. Common Black-headed Gull

 

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January 16

Chek Jawa at Pulau Ubin

78. Olived-backed Sunbird
79. Great Crested Tern
80. Grey Plover
81. Lesser Crested Tern
82. Great-billed Heron
83. Red Junglefowl
84. Brown-throated Sunbird
85. Olive-winged Bulbul

Pasir Ris Park

86. Collared Scops Owl

 

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January 18 - Bidadari

87. Common Iora
88. Ashy Minivet
89. Common Flameback
90. Black Baza

 

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January 19 - Singapore Botanic Gardens

91. Common Kingfisher

 

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January 20 - Goldhill Avenue

92. Common Tailorbird
93. Changeable Hawk Eagle
94. Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot
95. Rainbow Lorikeet

 

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January 22

Sengkang

97. Black-browed Warbler
98. Yellow Bittern
99. Black-crowned Night Heron
100 Oriental Reed Warbler
101. Rusty-rumped/Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler (Lifer)
102. Yellow-bellied Prinia
103. Black Bittern

West Coast

104. Large-billed Crow
105. Arctic Warbler
106. Oriental White-eye

Bishan

107. White Wagtail (SG lifer)

 

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January 23

Pasir Ris Park

108. Oriental Magpie Robin
109. Mangrove Pitta (Near-threatened globally but endangered in Singapore)
110. Oriental Pied Hornbill
111. Chinese Pond Heron

Seletar Dam

96. Malaysian Plover

 

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January 24

Kranji Marsh

112. Purple Swamphen
113. Common Moorhen

Neo Tiew Lane 2

114. Javan Munia
115. Baya Weaver

West Coast

116. Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker

 

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January 25 - Lower Pierce Reservoir

117. Dark-necked Tailorbird

 

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January 26

Singapore Botanic Gardens
118. Wandering Whistling Duck

Bukit Timah Hill Summit

119. Rufous-bellied Eagle (juvenile)
120. Red-eyed Bulbul
121. Blue and White Flycatcher (first-winter male)
122. Forest Wagtail
123. White-throated Rock Thrush (female)
124. Rufous-tailed Tailorbird

 

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January 28

Changi Grassland

125. Black-shouldered Kite
126. Long-tailed Shrike
127. Common Buzzard
128. Black-headed Munia
129. Yellow-fronted Canary

Tanah Merah Newater Plant

130. Red-watled Lapwing

Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve

131. Copper-throated Sunbird
132. Stork-billed Kingfisher
133. Milky Stork