Category: NATURE & ENVIRONMENT
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KRABI
Just an hour 40 minutes away from Changi, Krabi was a welcome Changi from the torrential rain for the past week. Bright sunshine and heavenly blue skies greeted me as I touched down at Krabi. No time was wasted and a boat was hired (2000 bahts) at Chao Fah Pier to the mangroves to look…
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OWLS GALORE
Collared Owlet (FH), Spotted Owlet (Thailand), Sunda Scop Owl (Pasir Ris), Buffy Fish Owl (SBG) Spotted Wood Owl (Pasir Ris), Barn Owl (Tuas), Twin-eared Eagle Owl (Senai, Johor), Oriental Scop Owl (Dairy Farm NP). White-fronted Scops-owl (Thailand), Brown Hawk Owl (BTNR), Blaskiton’s Fish Owl (Japan). Burrowing Owl, Ferruginous Pygmy Owl (Peru), Black & White Owl…
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Bulbuls of Singapore
Red -whiskered Bulbul Asian Red-Eyed Bulbul, Olive-winged Bulbul and world-endangered Straw-headed Bulbul Olive-winged Bulbul and Yellow-vented Bulbul
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TRAVEL BLOG 2023
KRABI 8 -11 DECEMBER The Dives – WBSE and Osprey Brown -winged Kf were actively diving in the evening. The Chinese Pond Heron found easy meals at the pond edge. Tim Sum near our hotel CAMERON HIGHLANDS (MACRO) 17-19 NOV 2023 A Macro World – Heteropoda Davidbowie, Elegans Prayer Mantis, Phidippus spider? Mating Long-horn Beetles, Orchid Mantid…
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MEMORIES OF BORNEO’S EDEN – SABAH
Book on Sabah was published in 2004 but work on the project started 10 years earlier, ie 1994. It was spearheaded by Albert Norman and approved by the Dato Musa Aman, the then Chief Minister of Sabah. Mount Kinabalu holds the record for the highest peak in Southeast Asia. Sabah is also home for the…
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Mulu National Park
Dec 2015Mulu National Park (over 52,000 hectares) in the State of Sarawak, is dominated by Gunung Mulu, a 2,377 m-high sandstone pinnacle. Highly diverse in biodiversity, it is also home to millions of cave swiftlets and bats. The Sarawak Chamber is the largest known cave chamber in the world (600 m by 415 m and…
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Mulu National Park
Dec 2015Mulu National Park (over 52,000 hectares) in the State of Sarawak, is dominated by Gunung Mulu, a 2,377 m-high sandstone pinnacle. Highly diverse in biodiversity, it is also home to millions of cave swiftlets and bats. The Sarawak Chamber is the largest known cave chamber in the world (600 m by 415 m and…
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Buffet spread at Seletar Aerospace
Its amazing how these birds find so many eels at the flooded grasslands. If they catch about 10 eels a day; it would be about 300 eels in a month!!! Not to mention that there are other food sources too.1st column – Cattle Egret with Skink and Freshwater Eel2nd column – Intermediate Egret with Centipede…