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 […]
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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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