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The first part of this series can be found HERE and the second HERE. “What sets Brown Barbets (Calorhamphus fuliginosus) in the genera of Barbets (Megalaiminae) apart from their cousins […]
![SubnirdC-Poikilospermum-suaveolens [GohJuanhui]](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/SubnirdC-Poikilospermum-suaveolens-GohJuanhui-q8dg35fns7abb193y7k2pxuthqm5mqbq433lnsw8z4.jpg "SubnirdC-Poikilospermum-suaveolens [GohJuanhui]")
Goh Juanhui was at the Jelutong Tower in Central Catchment Reserve in May 2013 where he was attracted by a flowering epiphytic climber, Poikilospermum suaveolens (Family: Urticaceae). This appears to […]
![TailorbirdA-m [Amar]](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/TailorbirdA-m-Amar-q8dfbscsttttbozzqdr24ufqxxhhjxp10neqptgu40.jpg "TailorbirdA-m [Amar]")
On 4th April 2013, Dato’ Dr Amar-Singh HSS visited his favourite birding spot in Tambun Interior, Perak, Malaysia. This is a fish and vegetable farming area among the ex-mining pools […]
![Cormorant fishing [YapKimFatt] - 1](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Cormorant-fishing-YapKimFatt-1-q8dfp6k07u5wrnjkio6o5yr7olgs8nvbuy2twrlvg0.jpg "Cormorant fishing [YapKimFatt] – 1")
“I read with interest, sometime ago, a BESG posting on this ancient method of fishing, a traditional practice used in China and Japan LINK. The technique of cormorant fishing goes […]
Ong Ei Leen was the first to post the Blue-rumped Parrot (Psittinus cyanurus) eating the starfruit (Averrhoa carambola) at Singapore’s Venus Loop by Lower Peirce Reservoir in mid-May 2013. This […]
The opinion piece by Dr Ho Hua Chew in The Straits Times of 1st May 2013 LINK made some wild allegations that were rebutted in my letter published in the […]
![BroadbillBaR-nest [LimSeikNi] - 2](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/BroadbillBaR-nest-LimSeikNi-2-q8dfscah6shlsgyd2jcj1o1zk7w741euml0kz8x8j4.jpg "BroadbillBaR-nest [LimSeikNi] – 2")
Lim Seik Ni of Pontian, in the Malaysian state of Johor, spotted a pair of Black-and-red Broadbills (Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos) collecting dried leaves in an housing area on 24th April 2013. […]
“On 11th January 2013, I visited the tip of Farewell Spit, South Island, New Zealand to admire a colony of Australasian Gannets (Morus serrator, Maori name: Takapu) established on a […]
“While visiting a private durian estate in Peninsula Malaysia, an accidental discovery was made of a tree termitarium over a branch stump cavity about twenty feet above ground in January […]
![DoveZ-P. piloselloides [AmarSingh] - 1](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/DoveZ-P.-piloselloides-AmarSingh-1-q8dg7iephj975wx3hlersc8sp34gc6mwdo1ot0fi40.jpg "DoveZ-P. piloselloides [AmarSingh] – 1")
On 4th April 2013, Dato’ Dr Amar-Singh HSS was at the fish and vegetable farming area around the ex-mining pools in Tambun Interior, Perak, Malaysia when he noticed an Zebra […]
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