while walking home along the canal, i saw some birds, which i finally know how to identify (well with some help nonetheless, haha):
1. Little Heron (Butorides striatus)
2. Collared Kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris) [was pretty pleased to see this]
3. White-vented Myna (Acridotheres grandis)
that's all but i'm sure there's lots more birds around my area. After years of seeing them as "just many different kinds of birds", i'm now glad to say that these are the birds i've seen throughout the years living in my neighbourhood:
-Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis)
-House Crow (Corvus splendens)
-Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)
-Spotted Dove (Streptopelia chinensis)
-Olive-backed Sunbird (Nectarinia jugularis) [a pair nested at my flat's balcony early this year, but sadly their offspring didn't survive =( ]
-Black-naped Oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
-Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) [used to see this pretty often when i was younger, but now where'd they go? ]
-Asian Glossy Starling (Aplonis panayensis)
-Yellow-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier) [never actually saw this bird but heard it's loud piercing call a couple of times; when i was a little kid i used to think "oh thats a monkey calling! can you hear that?" hahaha]
okays that's about it, i'll be on the lookout of more birds as the days go by =)
References:
A Guide To Urban Creatures. Singapore Science Centre
