Viator's 2013 World List (1 Viewer)

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Yet another year list! This year will probably be a little lower than last year but we'll see what happens...

For comparison purposes I'll update this post with the number of species seen by country starting with the first year I started posting the list on BirdForum.

As of Dec 31 the total for 2013 stands at 857.

For comparison purposes:
Country_______2008___2009___2010___2011___2012___2013
Singapore______234____210____206____175____220____182
USA___________207___________177
Australia_______170____123____183____234____185____222
Malaysia_______122____392____229____236____131____136
Indonesia_______26____________________2_____48_____74
China (inc HK)__________________2_____94____108_____243
Thailand______________222___________361____147____259
Dubai_________________________8
Greece________________________3
Spain_______________________152
Italy_________________________14
Vietnam____________________________214
Philippines_________________________________212
New Zealand________________________________________75
World_______613____669___781___793___648____857

 

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Jan 1, Singapore

A quiet day with just the birds around home.

1. Pacific Swallow
2. Javan Myna
3. Olive-backed Sunbird
4. Yellow-vented Bulbul
5. Rock Dove
6. Black-naped Oriole
7. Asian Koel
8. Asian Brown Flycatcher
9. Spotted Dove
10. Pink-necked Green Pigeon
11. Eurasian Tree Sparrow
12. House Swift
13. Common Myna
14. Brown Shrike

 

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Jan 2, Singapore

15. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
16. House Crow
17. Collared Kingfisher
18. White-throated Kingfisher
19. Eastern Cattle Egret
20. Chinese Pond Heron
21. Common Sandpiper
22. Zebra Dove
23. Common Greenshank
24. Germain's Swiftlet
25. Golden-bellied Gerygone
26. Common Tailorbird
27. Arctic Warbler
28. Little Egret
29. Paddyfield Pipit
30. Purple Heron
31. Cinnamon Bittern
32. Japanese Sparrowhawk
33. Long-tailed Shrike
34. Asian Glossy Starling
35. Blue-tailed Bee-eater
36. Grey Heron
37. Malaysian Pied Fantail
38. Common Kingfisher
39. Common Flameback
40. Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
41. Common Snipe
42. Striated Heron

 

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Jan 3, Singapore

43. Oriental Dollarbird
44. Indian Cuckoo
45. Savanna Nightjar
46. Changeable Hawk Eagle

 

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Jan 4, Singapore

47. Barn Swallow
48. Yellow Bittern
49. Brown-throated Sunbird
50. Common Iora
51. Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker
52. Red-rumped Swallow
53. Booted Eagle

 

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Jan 6, Katong, Singapore

54. Oriental Magpie Robin

 

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Jan 7, Changi Business Park, Singapore

55. Red-breasted Parakeet
56. Brahminy Kite
57. Crested Honey Buzzard

 

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Jan 9, Changi Business Park, Singapore

58. Long-tailed Parakeet
59. White-breasted Waterhen
60. Pied Triller

 

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Jan 11, Katong, Singapore

61. Daurian Starling

 

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Jan 13, Pulau Ubin, Singapore

62. Greater Crested Tern
63. Little Tern
64. Straw-headed Bulbul
65. White-bellied Sea Eagle
66. Ashy Tailorbird
67. Crimson Sunbird
68. Baillon's Crake
69. Asian Palm Swift
70. Red Junglefowl
71. Oriental Pied Hornbill
72. Ashy Minivet
73. Van Hasselt's Sunbird
74. Olive-winged Bulbul
75. Scaly-breasted Munia
76. Stork-billed Kingfisher
77. Eastern Great Egret
78. Greater Coucal

Changi Village
79. Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot
80. Tanimbar Corella

 

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Jan 15, Changi Business Park, Singapore

81. Coppersmith Barbet

 

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Jan 16, East Coast Park, Singapore

Seen from a taxi between the two offices I have to frequent a couple of Black Bazas.

82. Black Baza

 

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Jan 17, Changi Business Park, Singapore

Sightings around CBP and a nearby canal.

83. Black-crowned Night Heron
84. Pacific Golden Plover
85. Tiger Shrike
86. Ruddy-breasted Crake

 

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Jan 19, East Coast, Singapore

87. Large-billed Crow

 

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Jan 20, Katong, Singapore

88. Little Bronze Cuckoo

 

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Jan 26, Dairy Farm and Bukit Timah Nature Reserves, Singapore

A mid-day walk in the heat from Dairy Farm Nature Reserve to the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve visitor centre being my first walk of the year in the forest still brought some new year birds.

89. Orange-bellied Flowerpecker
90. Oriental White-eye
91. Little Spiderhunter
92. Rufous-tailed Tailorbird
93. Red-legged Crake
94. Dark-sided Flycatcher
95. Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
96. Asian Red-eyed Bulbul
97. Glossy Swiftlet
98. Laced Woodpecker
99. Dark-necked Tailorbird
100. Pin-striped Tit Babbler

 

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Jan 29, Changi Business Park, Singapore

A lunchtime surprise drifting overhead

101. Jerdon's Baza

 

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Jan 31, Changi Business Park, Singapore

102. Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler
103. Intermediate Egret
104. Wood Sandpiper

 

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Feb 3, East Coast, Singapore

A bike ride along East Coast Park and to Gardens by the Bay was surprisingly productive for year birds.

105. Black Drongo
106. Plaintive Cuckoo
107. Chestnut Munia
108. Dusky Warbler
109. Lesser Whistling Duck
110. Oriental Reed Warbler

 

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Feb 8, Bangkok to Kaeng Krachan, Thailand

After a dawn flight from Singapore to Bangkok the first year bird was an Asian Openbill alongside the runway on landing. The drive across Bangkok adding a few more.

111. Asian Openbill
112. Great Myna
113. Eastern Jungle Crow
114. Ashy Woodswallow

Having left Bangkok the drive to Kaeng Krachan added

115. Red Turtle Dove
116. Indian Cormorant
117. Whiskered Tern
118. Black-winged Stilt
119. Black-eared Kite
120. Eastern Marsh Harrier
121. Streak-eared Bulbul
122. Zitting Cisticola
123. Himalayan Swiftlet
124. Pied Myna
125. Plain Prinia
126. Stejneger's Stonechat
127. Indian Roller
128. Baya Weaver
129. Streaked Weaver
130. Plain-backed Sparrow
131. Thick-billed Warbler
132. Red-wattled Lapwing
133. Chestnut-headed Bee-eater
134. Shikra
135. Sooty-headed Bulbul
136. Greater Spotted Eagle


Having arrived in Kaeng Krachan

137. Taiga Flycatcher
138. Eurasian Hoopoe
139. Bronzed Drongo
140. Fork-tailed Drongo Cuckoo
141. Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush
142. Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush
143. Racket-tailed Treepie
144. Black-capped Kingfisher
145. Green-billed Malkoha
146. Rufous Treepie
147. Green Iora
148. Bronze-winged Jacana
149. Hair-crested Drongo
150. Stripe-throated Bulbul
151. Black-crested Bulbul
152. Black-headed Bulbul
153. Black-naped Monarch
154. Puff-throated Babbler
155. Asian Stubtail
156. Black-thighed Falconet
157. Yellow-browed Warbler

Image below of a Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush at the Baan Maka feeding station