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YC Wee
on 7th June 2009

Capt. Yong-wah Sim a.k.a. captsim was at Mai Po Reserve in Hongkong in May 2009 when his attention was drawn to four Black-winged Stilts (Himantopus himantopus) indulging in what looked […]

YC Wee
on 31st May 2009

This is Irfan Choo’s second documentation a sand-plover preying on another type of polychaete worms. The plover was tentatively identified as Greater Sand-plover (Charadrius leschenaultii), although it may well be […]

YC Wee
on 18th May 2009

Irfan Choo documented a sand-plover preying on a polychaete worm. The plover was tentatively identified as Greater Sand-plover (Charadrius leschenaultii), although it may well be a Lesser Sand-plover (Charadrius mongolus). […]

YC Wee
on 22nd March 2009

Shorebirds or waders are birds that live close to the water. These include curlews, gotwits, plovers, redshanks, sandpipers and whimbrel. They usual forage in the soft sand or mud when […]

YC Wee
on 29th December 2008

Photographed on 15th November 2008 at the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Tan Gim Cheong shares his image of the Nordmann’s Greenshank (Tringa guttifer) catching a crab (above). This greenshank, as […]

YC Wee
on 17th December 2008

The Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) is not resident to Singapore. It is a winter visitor and passage migrant. And comes August, these sandpipers begin to arrive, their number increasing through […]

YC Wee
on 12th December 2008

KC Tsang wrote after his trip to nearby Johor, Malaysia in early December 2008: “The Terek Sandpiper (Xenus cinereus) is an amazingly active feeder – I was observing it sprinting […]

YC Wee
on 9th December 2008

Foo Sai Khoon was at the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve on 20th November 2008 and sent in this: “I happened to be at Hide 1c (to look for the Nordmann’s […]

YC Wee
on 29th November 2008

The abundance of Malayan Water Monitors (Varanus salvator) at the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve has made these lizards an added attraction. The scavenging activities of these lizards shown earlier with […]

YC Wee
on 22nd November 2008

The Nordmann’s Greenshank (Tringa guttifer) rarely over-winters in Singapore. When two birds were spotted on 15th November 2008 (and again the next day) at the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, photographers […]

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