COMMON FLAMEBACK

Photographed in Singapore (Pasir Ris Park) November 2016

923                  COMMON FLAREBACK              Dinopium javanese

SINGAPORE (Pasir Ris Park)             (75)

Found in secondary forests, scrubs, old plantations, mangroves and occasionally urban parks near woodland. 30 cm. Distribution: SW India: Himalayan foothills and NE India, east to mainland Southeast Asia, Thai-Malay Peninsula and Greater Sundas.

CHINESE SPARROWHAWK

Photographed in Singapore (Coney Island) November 2016

(see     861)              CHINESE SPARROWHAWK               Accipiter soloensis

SINGAPORE (Coney Island)               (74)

Migrant to primary and secondary forest, old plantations, scrub and parkland. 25-30 cm. Breeds in E  and NE China, Korea and Russian Far East; winters across much of Southeast Asia, east to Philippines, Sulawesi and New Guinea.

JAPANESE PARADISE FLYCATCHER

Subspecies atrocaudata photographed in Singapore (Pasir Ris Park) November 2016

922                  JAPANESE PARADISE FLYCATCHER              Tepsiphone atrocaudata

SINGAPORE (Pasir Ris Park)              (73)

Rare migrant to primary and secondary forest, old plantations, scrub and occasionally parkland. 19 cm,  23 cm tail. Breeds in Japan, Korea and islands off Taiwan; winters in Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo and Java.

Note: only females seen in Singapore.

SUNDA PYGMY WOODPECKER

Photographed in Singapore (Pasir Ris Park) November 2016

921                  SUNDA PYGMY WOODPECKER              Dendrocopos moluccensis

SINGAPORE (Pasir Ris Park)             (72)

Found in mangroves, coastal scrub, and urban parklands, including narrow strips of ornamental trees beside carparks and along roadsides. 13 cm. Distribution: Thai-Maly Peninsula, and Greater Sundas east to the Lesser Sundas.

LESSER COUCAL

Subspecies javanensis photographed in Singapore November 2016

(845)              LESSER COUCAL                   Centropus bengalensis

SINGAPORE               (71)

Found in open scrub and grassland, including near wet areas. 38 cm. Distribution: Indian sub-continent, S China, and Southeast Asia, east to Greater Sundas, parts of Maluka and Lesser Sundas.

JAVAN POND HERON

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

(see   815)                  JAVAN POND-HERON            Ardeola speciosa

SINGAPORE               (70)

Found in freshwater marshes, grasslands, ponds with well-vegetated fringes and occasionally coastal mudflats. 45 cm. Distribution: parts of mainland Southeast Asia, Greater and Lesser Sundas, Sulawesi and Mindanao.

YELLOW-BELLIED PRINIA

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

920                  YELLOW-BELLIED PRINIA              Prinia flaviventris

SINGAPORE               (69)

Found in scrub and grasslands, especially on reclaimed land. 14 cm. Distribution: Himalayan foothills and much of N and E India, S China, mainland Southeast Asia, Thai-Malay Peninsula, Greater Sundas.

SLATY-BREASTED RAIL

Subspecies gularis photographed in Singapore (Coney Island) November 2016

919                  SLATY-BREASTED RAIL               Gallirallus striatus

SINGAPORE (Coney Island)              (68)

Found in secondary scrub, marshes, wet grassland, and occasionally well-wooded parkland. 25 cm. Distribution: S and NE India, much of S China, mainland Southeast Asia and Thai-Malay Peninsula, east to Philippines and Sulawesi.

LONG-TAILED PARAKEET

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

918                  LONG-TAILED PARAKEET              Psittacula longicauda

SINGAPORE               (67)

Found in primary and secondary forests, scrubs, old plantations, forest edge and occasionally parkland. Male: 41 cm, female: 30 cm. Distribution: Andaman Islands, Thai-alay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo.

ASIAN BROWN FLYCATCHER

Photographed in Singapore (Pasir Ris Park) November 2016

917                  ASIAN BROWN FLYCATCHER              Muscicapa dauurica 

SINGAPORE (Pasir Ris Park)              (66)

Found in primary and secondary forest, mangroves, forest edge, scrub, old plantations, parkland and even urban greenspaces. 13 cm. breeds across C Siberia and the Russian Far East, south to NE China, Korea and Japan; winters across S India to Southeast Asia, Thai-Malay Peninsula, Greater Sundas and Philippines; non-migratory populations occur inIndian sub-contijnet, mainland Southeast Asia and Borneo.

PIED TRILLER

Photographed in Singapore (Pasir Ris Park) November 2016

916                 PIED TRILLER              Lalage nigra

SINGAPORE (Pasir Ris Park)             (65)

Found in mangroves, parkland, urban areas and especially coastal scrub; forages on roadside trees. 17 cm. Distribution: Thai-Maly Peninsula, Greater Sundas, Philippines.

STORK-BILLED KINGFISHER

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

916                 STORK-BILLED KINGFISHER             Pelargopsis capensis

SINGAPORE               (64)

Occurs along mangrove creeks, ponds and reservoirs with forest fringes and suitably large water bodies in secondary scrub and old plantations. 37 cm. Distribution: Indian sub-continent, mainland Southeast Asia, Thai-Malay Peninsula, Greater Sundas east to Philippines and Sulawesi.

RUFOUS WOODPECKER

Photographed in Singapore (Pasir Ris Park) November 2016

914                  RUFOUS WOODPECKER             Micropternus brachyurus

SINGAPORE  (Pasir Ris Park)             (63)

Found in primary and secondary forest, scrub and old plantations. 25 cm. Distribution: S China, Himalayan foothills to E India, mainland Southeast Asia, Thai-Malay Peninsula and Greater Sundas. 

Note: Unusual symbiotic relationship with tree ants; builds its nest in ants' nest while feeding on ants of other nests.

SQUARE-TAILED DRONGO-CUCKOO

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

(see   862)              ASIAN DRONGO-CUCKOO                   Surniculus lugubris

SINGAPORE               (62)

Uncommon resident and migrant; residents found in primary and secondary forests; migrants found in forests,old plantations, scrubs and parkland. 25 cm. Distribution: NE India, mainland Southeast Asia, Thai-Malay Peninsula, Greater Sundas, Palawan.