Sg Serangoon 2Sep07

Today is the Fall Migration Bird Census (FMBC). Like the Mid Year Bird Census (MYBC) on 16Jul07, I covered Sungei Serangoon from Hougang to Sengkang. During the MYBC, I saw the common moorhen here for the first time. The pair was flushed from the wet grassland as I entered the area. It has been a few months since I last visited this place and the grassland has accumulated quite an amount of rainfall such that it has become marshy. During the FMBC, the new bird of this area was the laced woodpecker - 3 of them to be exact! There were 5 migratory species (the common kingfisher, 3 waders and the barn swallow) in Sep, but this did not result in higher diversity for the FMBC. In fact, the abundance dropped. This could be attributed to the cloudiness on the 2Sep.

		MYBC07	FMBC07
		16/7/07	2/9/07
1	Laced Woodpecker	-	3
2	Common Kingfisher	-	1
3	White-throated Kingfisher	3	2
4	Collared Kingfisher	7	6
5	Blue-throated Bee-eater	8	3
6	Asian Koel	4	4
7	Lesser Coucal	-	2
8	House Swift	2	3
9	Swiftlet	10	10
10	Common Pigeon	9	7
11	Spotted Dove	37	16
12	Zebra Dove	3	6
13	Pink-necked Green Pigeon	4	-
14	White-breasted Waterhen	7	5
15	Common Moorhen	2	-
16	Common Greenshank	-	3
17	Common Sandpiper	-	9
18	Pacific Golden Plover	-	27
19	Brahminy Kite	1	-
20	Little Egret	18	5
21	Grey Heron	17	6
22	Purple Heron	1	1
23	Striated Heron	37	25
24	Black-crowned Night Heron	7	1
25	Golden-bellied gerygone	1	2
26	House Crow	28	11
27	Black-naped Oriole	1	7
28	Pied Fantail	1	1
29	Common Iora	6	3
30	Asian Glossy Starling	17	21
31	Common Myna	2	3
32	White-vented Myna	52	41
33	Barn Swallow	-	3
34	Pacific Swallow	9	3
35	Sooty-headed Bulbul	6	-
36	Yellow-vented Bulbul	10	13
37	Yellow-bellied Prinia	8	3
38	Common Tailorbird	7	9
39	Ashy Tailorbird	1	-
40	Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker	2	-
41	Brown-throated Sunbird	6	2
42	Olive-backed Sunbird	11	10
43	Eurasian Tree Sparrow	5	24
44	Paddyfield Pipit	1	2
45	Baya Weaver	1	-
46	Javan Munia	7	11
47	White-headed Munia	1	-
	Total species	40	39
	Total no.	360	314