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Ang Siew Siew documented a Tanimbar Corrella (Cacatua goffini) digging into a coconut in an earlier post. She returned to the Sentosa Waterfront site a few days later and returned […]
“I was surprised to find some of the jungle bamboo ‘seeding’ very early in season at one site with a number of species feeding, like the Pin-tailed Parrotfinch (Erythrura prasina […]
“The Common Redeye (Matapa aria) is a moderately rare butterfly, first observed in Singapore in 1998. It is a small butterfly (about 20mm wingspan) with a dull brown upper wings […]
![PloverLR-gular flutte [AmarSingh]](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/PloverLR-gular-flutte-AmarSingh-0-q8dg2yusgd1b1rio0mpoqhilc1il4ullr6j7av606o.jpg "PloverLR-gular flutte [AmarSingh]")
“I was passing through this area and stopped to check out the waders. It was extremely hot at 12 noon and I spotted this Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius curonicus) […]
![BarbetRC-cavity [ChanKumChun]](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/BarbetRC-cavity-ChanKumChun-q8dfjgpcn4c451ukwp7dhwp9l7neey642n7ht633ao.jpg "BarbetRC-cavity [ChanKumChun]")
The Red-crowned Barbet (Megalaima rafflesii) was actively digging a nesting hole in a dead tree trunk at Lower Peirce Reservoir in July 2016 when Kumchun Chan documented it on video […]
Disclosure “We are careful with nesting birds and limit contact/close observations. In this case the nest was in our home and partially visible from our kitchen window. In addition we […]
“Plants in Tropical Cities by Boo Chin Min, Sharon YJ Chew & Jean WH Yong, privately published in 2014, Uvaria Tide ([email protected]; contact 65-9783-4814). “The campaign to turn Singapore into […]
![WaterhenWB-drink {LeongTziMing] 1](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/WaterhenWB-drink-LeongTziMing-1-q8df8d7xyj592ryupeixk7id4gcejl46vpy4ukjer4.jpg "WaterhenWB-drink {LeongTziMing] 1")
“While the warm weather in April 2016 made us all feeling hot and bothered, a series of substantial afternoon showers towards the end of the month provided some relief. These […]
“The month of April 2016 was uncomfortably warm for most of us, including the chick of a Buffy Fish-owl (Ketupa ketupu). While monitoring this chick on 27th April, the sky […]
A active colony of Paper Wasp (Polistes sagittarius) was recently located inside a drainage hole of about 40 cm running through the retaining wall of my neighbour’s house (above). There […]
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