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If you live or work in Singapore, you may often have the urge to know more about the city. In this article, we are going to talk about some of the most common birds you can find in this city. We will share some common facts about these birds.
1) Javan Mynah This bird is called the white-vented mynah as well. For the first time, in 1920, this bird was brought from other countries to be kept as a pet bird.
As far as breeding and food are concerned, mynah is quite adaptable. It leaves its nests before other birds in order to eat road kills, fruits, leftover human food, and insects.
2) Asian Glossy Starling Often, these birds get together in big flocks consisting of 30 birds. You can find sitting on TV antennas and feeding on different types of fruits in gardens. At night, you can find them in big communal flocks and roosts. Their voice sounds like a whistle.
3) Pink-Necked Green Pigeon The male pigeon is more colorful than the female. Often, their nests are in trees. Rarely they are found on the ground. Typically, they get down only when they have to drink water.
The pair helps each other incubate the eggs and the nest. Typically, the male rests in the nest throughout the day, and the female comes back in the evening. Unlike other birds, doves and pigeons don't have oil-producing glands. So, their feathers are not waterproof.
4) Yellow-Vented Bulbul You can find this bird in almost every park and garden. In gardens, they can be seen flying around flowering shrubs. Usually, it's cup-like nest is made of plastic strips, raffia pieces, tissue paper, and plant stuff.
They feed on caterpillars, beetles, grasshoppers, and ants. After having their meal, they like to bathe and preen.
5) Whimbrel You can find these birds breeding in the arctic and sub-arctic parts of the world. Usually, they fly to other countries, such as New Zealand, Australia and Asia during the colder months of the year In Singapore, you can find them in September and November. Their long bills to feed on marine animals and crustaceans.
Whimbrel was seen at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve after a long time in 2014. 6) Pacific Golden Plover In Singapore, you can find this beautiful bird on the shores. They feed on insects, spiders, worms, marine, and crabs, to name a few. This bird can fly thousands of miles without getting tired. They fly in flocks of hundreds of birds.
In Singapore, they arrive in late August. In April, they fly back to their original sites.
7) Common Redshank You can identify the common redshank from its red legs. But the juveniles don't have red legs. Their legs are greenish-yellow. These nervous birds are often seen flying around the sandy shores.
In the breeding season, the common redshank feast on worms, insects, and spiders. Before or after the breeding season, they eat tadpoles, small fish, crustaceans and mollusks.
Take into account yourself your bird's cook, caterer, housekeeper, and taxi cab service. You can help your cockatiel live lengthier by providing him with healthy food, clean living conditions and a trip to the vet if needed. Cockatiels are generally healthy unless kept in unclean, crowded conditions or given incorrectly. Provide filtered sunlight during the day, fresh foods and water daily, and clean your cockatiel's crate twice a week or more as needed. Get rid of uneaten fruit and vegetables from your bird's cage within a couple of hours of feeding. Your bird may be sick if he's dirty feathers, is sitting down fluffed up in a corner of his competition or has watery sight or diarrhea.
You (and Your Cockatiel) Are Just What You Eat Pet parrots are often fed a convenient but "junk food" diet of packaged parrot seed, water, and resolution. Like humans, cockatiels depend on a variety of vitamins, minerals, and proteins for staying healthy. Adding abundant greens, shredded carrots and hard-boiled egg yolk provide the healthy food necessary for a long life period. Calcium is very important for breeding female cockatiels, in whose calcium stores can be lost over time by laying eggs. Give reproduction birds plenty of oyster shell grit and cuttlefish bones. Captive birds can also develop a nutritional A deficiency. Shredded carrots and cooked yams can help boost vitamin The levels.
Cockatiels are built for long haul flying; in the wild, they fly many miles daily looking for food and water. Pet cockatiels don't have the space for this kind of extreme workout.
Safety Tips for Cockatiels Cockatiels can live 20 years or more if given proper care. Practicing common sense and household safety can add years to your bird's life. Never leave cockatiels unsupervised with small children or household pets. Inside nature, cockatiels are surface feeders. Pet cockatiels enjoy exploring floors but are easily stepped on and can become targets for dogs and cats when allowed to stick to the floor. Avoid putting your cockatiel in direct sunlight without providing a source of shade. Cockatiels enjoy being outdoors in their cages but require normal water and shade for avoiding heatstroke and dehydration. Your current bird is too hot if he's panting and holds his wings a bit away from his body. If the bird seems unwell or is injured, take him to the vet immediately. Birds instinctively effort to hide illness, so if your bird seems sick, it's time to see your vet.
This morning, I awoke to the sound of rain. On this fourth consecutive day of rain, I have grown concerned about flooding, so I peered out various windows to see if the water had begun to pond. In the backyard twilight, I saw a ruby-throated hummingbird swoop in to land on my wife's bright red feeder. He got two slurps then he rocketed almost straight up to somewhere in the canopy of a large elm tree.
I wondered if he might be quick enough to see and avoid falling rain drops. I live in Southeastern Virginia, and mostly our hummingbird visitors sport feathers emerald green at the back and white at the breast. The males have ruby-red throat feathers. Two or three males fight over the use of our feeder and perhaps six to ten females regularly fly in to feed, unmolested by the males. On occasion, we have seen a larger black hummingbird fly in. None of the ruby throats mess with him.
A migratory species, hummingbirds nest in various Central American countries during winter. They fly across the Gulf of Mexico to return to North American locations familiar to them. I have not read any plausible explanation as to why our bird visitors fly up to Virginia when they might have stayed in Alabama or Florida. I have read that the males come see us first, probably to stake claims on food foraging areas, like my wife's bird feeder. The females, and their young, arrive later in the Spring (usually in the month of May). I read some studies of captured, released, and tracked hummingbirds that conclude fat content as critically important to their health and their chances of surviving such long journeys of flight each year. The birds live only 3-5 years.
We have noticed a peculiar behavior in our hummingbirds when my wife moves the feeder to a different post hook (about two feet away). She has a bird seed station hanging from the other post, to feed our seed crunching birds. Those birds spill seed to the ground, which attracts squirrels who will eventually damage the lawn below the feeder. So, my wife will occasionally switch the two feeders. For some reason, our hummingbirds, who can find the red feeder after a 1200 mile journey, will hover in front of the seeder station that got put where they expected it. It takes them awhile to find the new location of the sugar water that they crave. #TAG1writer
It wasn't the first time our cat had brought a surprise back with her. It wasn't even the first time she had brought in a live bird. Perhaps it was that she released it in the bedroom instead of the basement or living room (her usual places to set her prey loose).
I think what really surprised me the most was the size of the bird that was now flying in a panic around my bedroom.
Over the years, with two female housecats who we let outdoors a couple of hours each day, we have had our share of rabbits, mice or other rodent, and birds enter our home. Most of the time they are still alive, frightened, but for the most part, unharmed. Cats who are sufficiently fed do not hunt for food, they hunt for fun, and so they usually do not eat the animals/birds they capture. They usually bring them to the humans as a present or to show that they had caught something.
Being a Healer, I know the importance of helping these animals and birds overcome their shock before releasing them, as it is the shock that often kills them, not any injury they may have sustained.
So the bird that was currently flying around the bedroom was just the newest bird requiring my attention.
Unfortunately, that was also going to be a BIG problem. I was used to helping little sparrows that frequented our backyard and the neighbor's birdfeeders. This bird was a lot bigger-in fact, he was a predator himself. He was a hawk. I have to admit that my close interactions with hawks has been lacking. I think the closest I ever came to one was when one was in a tree eyeing a dead bird nearby. Still, the bird was a lot farther away than the one that now stood on my dresser looking like it would attack anyone or anything that moved.
Normally I would have let the bird calm down a bit before approaching him, but it had been injured by my cat as I saw blood on the floor and walls where the hawk had flown. It was enough blood to suggest that waiting was not a good idea if I wanted him to survive.
1) Javan Mynah This bird is called the white-vented mynah as well. For the first time, in 1920, this bird was brought from other countries to be kept as a pet bird.
As far as breeding and food are concerned, mynah is quite adaptable. It leaves its nests before other birds in order to eat road kills, fruits, leftover human food, and insects.
2) Asian Glossy Starling Often, these birds get together in big flocks consisting of 30 birds. You can find sitting on TV antennas and feeding on different types of fruits in gardens. At night, you can find them in big communal flocks and roosts. Their voice sounds like a whistle.
3) Pink-Necked Green Pigeon The male pigeon is more colorful than the female. Often, their nests are in trees. Rarely they are found on the ground. Typically, they get down only when they have to drink water.
The pair helps each other incubate the eggs and the nest. Typically, the male rests in the nest throughout the day, and the female comes back in the evening. Unlike other birds, doves and pigeons don't have oil-producing glands. So, their feathers are not waterproof.
4) Yellow-Vented Bulbul You can find this bird in almost every park and garden. In gardens, they can be seen flying around flowering shrubs. Usually, it's cup-like nest is made of plastic strips, raffia pieces, tissue paper, and plant stuff.
They feed on caterpillars, beetles, grasshoppers, and ants. After having their meal, they like to bathe and preen.
5) Whimbrel You can find these birds breeding in the arctic and sub-arctic parts of the world. Usually, they fly to other countries, such as New Zealand, Australia and Asia during the colder months of the year In Singapore, you can find them in September and November. Their long bills to feed on marine animals and crustaceans.
Whimbrel was seen at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve after a long time in 2014. 6) Pacific Golden Plover In Singapore, you can find this beautiful bird on the shores. They feed on insects, spiders, worms, marine, and crabs, to name a few. This bird can fly thousands of miles without getting tired. They fly in flocks of hundreds of birds.
In Singapore, they arrive in late August. In April, they fly back to their original sites.
7) Common Redshank You can identify the common redshank from its red legs. But the juveniles don't have red legs. Their legs are greenish-yellow. These nervous birds are often seen flying around the sandy shores.
In the breeding season, the common redshank feast on worms, insects, and spiders. Before or after the breeding season, they eat tadpoles, small fish, crustaceans and mollusks.
Take into account yourself your bird's cook, caterer, housekeeper, and taxi cab service. You can help your cockatiel live lengthier by providing him with healthy food, clean living conditions and a trip to the vet if needed. Cockatiels are generally healthy unless kept in unclean, crowded conditions or given incorrectly. Provide filtered sunlight during the day, fresh foods and water daily, and clean your cockatiel's crate twice a week or more as needed. Get rid of uneaten fruit and vegetables from your bird's cage within a couple of hours of feeding. Your bird may be sick if he's dirty feathers, is sitting down fluffed up in a corner of his competition or has watery sight or diarrhea.
You (and Your Cockatiel) Are Just What You Eat Pet parrots are often fed a convenient but "junk food" diet of packaged parrot seed, water, and resolution. Like humans, cockatiels depend on a variety of vitamins, minerals, and proteins for staying healthy. Adding abundant greens, shredded carrots and hard-boiled egg yolk provide the healthy food necessary for a long life period. Calcium is very important for breeding female cockatiels, in whose calcium stores can be lost over time by laying eggs. Give reproduction birds plenty of oyster shell grit and cuttlefish bones. Captive birds can also develop a nutritional A deficiency. Shredded carrots and cooked yams can help boost vitamin The levels.
Cockatiels are built for long haul flying; in the wild, they fly many miles daily looking for food and water. Pet cockatiels don't have the space for this kind of extreme workout.
Safety Tips for Cockatiels Cockatiels can live 20 years or more if given proper care. Practicing common sense and household safety can add years to your bird's life. Never leave cockatiels unsupervised with small children or household pets. Inside nature, cockatiels are surface feeders. Pet cockatiels enjoy exploring floors but are easily stepped on and can become targets for dogs and cats when allowed to stick to the floor. Avoid putting your cockatiel in direct sunlight without providing a source of shade. Cockatiels enjoy being outdoors in their cages but require normal water and shade for avoiding heatstroke and dehydration. Your current bird is too hot if he's panting and holds his wings a bit away from his body. If the bird seems unwell or is injured, take him to the vet immediately. Birds instinctively effort to hide illness, so if your bird seems sick, it's time to see your vet.
This morning, I awoke to the sound of rain. On this fourth consecutive day of rain, I have grown concerned about flooding, so I peered out various windows to see if the water had begun to pond. In the backyard twilight, I saw a ruby-throated hummingbird swoop in to land on my wife's bright red feeder. He got two slurps then he rocketed almost straight up to somewhere in the canopy of a large elm tree.
I wondered if he might be quick enough to see and avoid falling rain drops. I live in Southeastern Virginia, and mostly our hummingbird visitors sport feathers emerald green at the back and white at the breast. The males have ruby-red throat feathers. Two or three males fight over the use of our feeder and perhaps six to ten females regularly fly in to feed, unmolested by the males. On occasion, we have seen a larger black hummingbird fly in. None of the ruby throats mess with him.
A migratory species, hummingbirds nest in various Central American countries during winter. They fly across the Gulf of Mexico to return to North American locations familiar to them. I have not read any plausible explanation as to why our bird visitors fly up to Virginia when they might have stayed in Alabama or Florida. I have read that the males come see us first, probably to stake claims on food foraging areas, like my wife's bird feeder. The females, and their young, arrive later in the Spring (usually in the month of May). I read some studies of captured, released, and tracked hummingbirds that conclude fat content as critically important to their health and their chances of surviving such long journeys of flight each year. The birds live only 3-5 years.
We have noticed a peculiar behavior in our hummingbirds when my wife moves the feeder to a different post hook (about two feet away). She has a bird seed station hanging from the other post, to feed our seed crunching birds. Those birds spill seed to the ground, which attracts squirrels who will eventually damage the lawn below the feeder. So, my wife will occasionally switch the two feeders. For some reason, our hummingbirds, who can find the red feeder after a 1200 mile journey, will hover in front of the seeder station that got put where they expected it. It takes them awhile to find the new location of the sugar water that they crave. #TAG1writer
It wasn't the first time our cat had brought a surprise back with her. It wasn't even the first time she had brought in a live bird. Perhaps it was that she released it in the bedroom instead of the basement or living room (her usual places to set her prey loose).
I think what really surprised me the most was the size of the bird that was now flying in a panic around my bedroom.
Over the years, with two female housecats who we let outdoors a couple of hours each day, we have had our share of rabbits, mice or other rodent, and birds enter our home. Most of the time they are still alive, frightened, but for the most part, unharmed. Cats who are sufficiently fed do not hunt for food, they hunt for fun, and so they usually do not eat the animals/birds they capture. They usually bring them to the humans as a present or to show that they had caught something.
Being a Healer, I know the importance of helping these animals and birds overcome their shock before releasing them, as it is the shock that often kills them, not any injury they may have sustained.
So the bird that was currently flying around the bedroom was just the newest bird requiring my attention.
Unfortunately, that was also going to be a BIG problem. I was used to helping little sparrows that frequented our backyard and the neighbor's birdfeeders. This bird was a lot bigger-in fact, he was a predator himself. He was a hawk. I have to admit that my close interactions with hawks has been lacking. I think the closest I ever came to one was when one was in a tree eyeing a dead bird nearby. Still, the bird was a lot farther away than the one that now stood on my dresser looking like it would attack anyone or anything that moved.
Normally I would have let the bird calm down a bit before approaching him, but it had been injured by my cat as I saw blood on the floor and walls where the hawk had flown. It was enough blood to suggest that waiting was not a good idea if I wanted him to survive.
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