Pellet casting is well known among raptors and owls. However, many other birds also cast pellets including kingfishers, herons, shrikes, shorebirds, bee-eaters, some songbirds, etc. Birds are possibly not frequently […]
On 27th March 2023 I was at approximately 1,800m ASL at Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia when I saw a male Black-throated Sunbird (Aethopyga saturata) collecting prey to feed juveniles. I […]
Mandai mangrove, facing the Singapore causeway. Mangroves were once extensive along the northern and western coasts of the main island of Singapore. They usually develop within the tidal river […]
Grey-rumped Treeswift family at open car park next to Queenstown Primary School at 7.30am. Singapore. The Grey-rumped Tree Swift (Hemiprocne longipennis) chick sat comfortably in its bowl nest, strained […]
Nature talks were invariably requested by the various organisations and the Nature Society was ever-willing to oblige. After all, we were into nature appreciation and there was a need to […]
Jeremiah Loei was at Mount Faber on 1 April 2023 when he captured the following video footage of a Laced Woodpecker mother feeding its chick. The chick begged at the […]
The first two issues of the Singapore Science Centre’s pocket-sized Guide Book. The Nature Society has always introduced nature to the lay public by way of guided walks. However, […]
Over the past few decades, I have been observing an increased presence of the Oriental Magpie-Robins (Copsychus saularis) in Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia. In the past 10-15 years they have […]
R.E. Holttum’s Plant Life in Malaya was my favourite reading material around the time when I was completing my high school in Raffles Institution. This was the only book available […]
I was kindly alerted by colleagues about a pair of Lineated Barbets (Psilopogon lineatus) that were nesting in Ipoh. I am reporting some limited observations. Nesting is over and the […]
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