Viator's 2011 List (1 Viewer)

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Feb 26, East Coast Park, Singapore

Whilst attending a birthday party for a friend of my son a juvenile Little Bronze Cuckoo was keeping its Golden-bellied Gerygone foster parents' busy with requests for food.

421. Little Bronze Cuckoo

 

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Feb 27, East Coast Park, Singapore

Another day, another cuckoo!

422. Rusty-breasted Cuckoo

 

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Mar 1, Changi Business Park, Singapore

A typical lunchtime walk added a surprising omission from the year so far.

423. Ruddy-breasted Crake

PS thanks to the 2 people who've rated this thread recently

 

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Mar 2, Katong, Singapore

A Plaintive Cuckoo was calling outside the bedroom window this morning which took a little while to track down.

424. Plaintive Cuckoo

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Mar 8, Changi Business Park

A lunchtime walk to a different area of undeveloped land added two new birds

425. Large-tailed Nightjar
426. Black-crowned Night Heron

 

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Mar 12, Bunker Trail, Panti Forest, Malaysia

A long weekend trip across the causeway into Malaysia started with an early morning bus trip from Singapore to pick up a hire car in Johor Bahru. The logistics out of the way it was the short drive past Kota Tingi for some birding for me and general outdoors for family.

A generally overcast day with threatening clouds which eventually produced steady rain meant dark conditions unfavourable for photography but still plenty of birds in general but short on babblers. The rain eventually cleared late in the day hence photos of the last two new birds for the year.

Mammal highlight was a Lesser Mousedeer along a leech infested trail- my leech bite count for the day 7, number seen uncountable unless done by the square metre!

427. Blue-throated Bee-eater
428. Asian Red-eyed Bulbul
429. Rufous-tailed Shama
430. Cinereous Bulbul
431. Brown Barbet
432. Red-crowned Barbet
433. Cream-vented Bulbul
434. Whiskered Treeswift
435. Grey-cheeked Bulbul
436. Hairy-backed Bulbul
437. Yellow-bellied Bulbul
438. Spectacled Bulbul
439. Green Broadbill
440. Glossy Swiftlet
441. Temminick's Sunbird
442. Buff-vented Bulbul
443. Grey-rumped Treeswift
444. Fiery Minivet
445. Black-winged Flycatcher-shrike
446. Yellow-eared Spiderhunter
447. Yellow-breasted Flowerpecker
448. Grey-and-buff Woodpecker
449. Maroon Woodpecker
450. Fluffy-backed Tit-Babbler
451. Green Iora
452. Red-throated Sunbird
453. Checker-throated Woodpecker
454. Rufous-tailed Tailorbird
455. Scaly-crowned Babbler
456. Grey-breasted Spiderhunter
457. Crimson-winged Woodpecker
458. Black-bellied Malkoha
459. Chestnut-breasted Malkoha
460. Buff-rumped Woodpecker
461. Blyth's Hawk-Eagle
462. Banded Kingfisher

Photos of a Blyth's Hawk-Eagle drying its wings and a Banded Kingfisher

 

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Mar 13, Panti Forest, Malaysia

After spending the night in Kota Tingi we headed back out to the forest.

463. Black Hornbill
464. Blue-rumped Parrot
465. Crested Jay
466. Black Magpie
467. Little Green Pigeon
468. Large Woodshrike
469. Buff-necked Woodpecker
470. Greater Green Leafbird
471. Streaked Bulbul
472. Black-throated Babbler
473. Red-bearded Bee-eater
474. Raffles's Malkoha
475. Long-billed Spiderhunter
476. Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher
477. Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker
478. Greater Goldenback
479. Thick-billed Spiderhunter

Photos are of Buff-vented Bulbul, Grey-and-buff Woodpecker, Yellow-eared Spiderhunter, Raffles's Malkoha

 

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Mar 13, Mersing, Malaysia

Mid-afternoon we headed further north up to Mersing where plenty of waders were on the mudflats.

480. Lesser Sand Plover
481. Terek Sandpiper
482. Bar-tailed Godwit
483. Black-tailed Godwit
484. Eastern Curlew
485. Greater Sand Plover
486. Malaysian Plover
487. White-faced Plover
488. Red Knot

 

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Mar 14, Mersing to Parit Jawa, Malaysia

Breakfast at the beach added two more birds for the year list

489. Chinese Egret
490. Common Redshank

After breakfast we started the drive across the peninsula to Parit Jawa.

491. Crested Serpent Eagle

 

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Mar 14, Parit Jawa, Malaysia

We arrived at Parit Jawa at low tide with no water in the bay other than the channel used by the fishing the boats. There were however plenty of birds still within sight along the edges of the channel. The highlight here are the ever present Lesser Adjutants.

492. Lesser Adjutant
493. White-winged Tern
494. Curlew Sandpiper
495. Great Knot
496. Asian Dowitcher
497. Eurasian Curlew

Photos below of a Lesser Adjutant and a Pacific Swallow

 

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Mar 14, Parit Jusof, Malaysia

After a meal of the local seafood we headed south to the rice paddies just outside Parit Jusof - an environment my son likes looking for frogs which also has plenty of birds.

498. White-headed Munia
499. Chestnut Munia
500. Watercock
501. Black Kite
502. Von Schrenck's Bittern

From there it was the drive back to Singapore but one more year bird was encountered not far south of Parit Jusof

503. Jerdon's Baza

 

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Mar 19, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore

Whilst we were in Malaysia last weekend a male and female White-throated Rock Thrush, a rare passage migrant, had been reported on the 'summit' of Bukit Timah. With reports saying the female was still present I had a morning to try and see my 300th Singapore bird - as it turned out having walked up and finding the 1/2 dozen photographers lined up it was less than a minute before she flew in.

504. White-throated Rock Thrush

 

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Mar 21, Changi Business Park, Singapore

After the rare passage migrant of the weekend a common one!

505. Yellow-rumped Flycatcher

 

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Mar 27, Pulau Ubin, Singapore

506. Tanimbar Corella
507. Laced Woodpecker
508. Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher

 

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Mar 28, Changi Business Park

A lunch time stroll added the uncommon Brown-streaked Flycatcher

509. Brown-streaked Flycatcher

 

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Mar 29, Changi Business Park, Singapore

A couple of surprises today, with a Grey Nightjar to add to my Singapore life list.

510. Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler
511. Grey Nightjar

 

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Apr 4, Tanah Merah, Singapore

Heading into work in the morning a male Chinese Sparrowhawk was being harassed by a couple of House Crows.

512. Chinese Sparrowhawk

 

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Apr 8, Bunker Trail, Panti Forest, Malaysia

A day trip across the causeway to Panti Forest with the morning on Bunker Trail and the afternoon hiking the 270 milestone trail.

Generally a quiet morning birdwise besides being very hot and sunny also plenty of logging trucks going through and the Malaysian army doing jungle training exercises not helping.

513. Common Hill Myna
514. Chestnut-bellied Malkoha
515. Grey-chested Jungle Flycatcher
516. Pacific Swift
517. Yellow-vented Flowerpecker
518. Red-throated Barbet
519. Grey-headed Fish Eagle
520. Pale Blue Flycatcher
521. Olive-backed Woodpecker
522. Malaysian Blue Flycatcher

Photo below is a Grey-chested Jungle Flycatcher.

Post covering the afternoon to follow.

 

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Apr 8, 270 Trail, Panti Forest, Malaysia

The afternoon was spent hiking into the forest from the main road.

523. Scarlet-breasted Flowerpecker
524. Everett's White-eye
525. Rufous-chested Flycatcher
526. Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike
527. Rufous-winged Philentoma
528. Silver-rumped Spinetail
529. Black-naped Monarch
530. Chestnut-rumped Babbler
531. Crested Goshawk

 

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Apr 11, Changi Business Park, Singapore

The continuing migration gave me one new year bird in a Mugimaki Flycatcher at lunch time along with one Singapore year bird in a Black Drongo.

532. Mugimaki Flycatcher