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My Big Bird Year Fly Free, Subaraj the International and Domestic Official Magazine of Nature Society (Singapore) Volume 28 No 1 Jan-Mar 2020 S$5.00 My Big Bird Year Fly Free, Subaraj The International and Domestic Parrot Trade MCI (P) 064/04/2019 MESSAGE FROM THE EDITORS NATURE SOCIETY (SINGAPORE) his issue has serendipitously turned into a year-end celebration of the many generations that make up the nature loving community and TNature Society (Singapore) (NSS) members in our tiny island country, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and the continuity of commitment. Our cover photo shows a young team competing in NSS’ 35th Singapore Patron Professor Tommy Koh Bird Race. This event attracted the largest number of teams and participants President ever, thanks not only to the many keen young primary and secondary Dr Shawn Lum school participants, but also the slightly older groups of photographers and Vice-President Dr Ho Hua Chew birdwatchers who took part. And the few even older ones. And the youngsters Immediate Past President needed a solid core of “middling-age” types, teachers and NSS volunteers, to Dr Geh Min keep them safe as they roamed around the southern ridges. Honorary Secretary Mr Morten Strange At the core of the Bird Race organisation was Lim Kim Chuah, now Honorary Treasurer Chair of the NSS Bird Group, and one of those who had competed in the first Mr Bhagyesh Chaubey Bird Race in 1984 – a two team event. He was one of the young generation of Honorary Assistant Secretary Ms Evelyn Ng Singaporeans who gave the Society, then the Singapore Branch of the Malayan Honorary Assistant Treasurer Nature Society, a power surge in the 1980s. A photo of him at that time, - Executive Committee Members along with four others of that influential generation, appears in this issue. Very Mr Goh Si Guim, Mr Albert Liu tragically one of them, Subaraj Rajathurai, is no longer with us. Morten Strange Finance Advisory Group Members Mr Peter Connell, Ms Trixie Tan, pays tribute to Subaraj’s life which was dedicated to nature and its conservation Mr Yip Yew Chong in Singapore – a life cut short too soon, but with a solid legacy passed on to his Co-opted Council Members Assoc Prof P.N. Avadhani, Ms Margie Hall, sons and to the wider community of Singapore. Mr Ben Szeto, Dr Liew Kai Khiun, Dr Ngo Kang Min Nature races rely on skills of identification and knowledge of species’ Advisory Council Members Mr Warren Khoo, Prof Koh Kheng Lian, behaviour and preferred habitats – Big Years likewise, with the addition of Mr Lim Jim Koon, Mr Liu Thai Ker, Prof Ng Soon Chye, Mr Sim Wong Hoo, reliance on community. Geoff Lim’s account of his Big Year is much longer Mr Mason Tan than the articles we usually publish, but it contains such an appreciation of BirdLife International Coordinator Mr Lim Kim Keang the birdwatching and bird photography community, as well as the problems of IUCN Coordinator fitting hobbies with family life, that we did not wish to cut it too short. Ms Ng Bee Choo On the conservation front, recent graduate Sung Mei Yee reports on Green Corridor Coordinator Dr Liew Kai Khiun her first attendance at an international conference, whilst some of our other COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS youngish science-trained members Anuj Jain and Yong Ding Li, together Conservation Committee Mr Leong Kwok Peng with recent graduate Aloysius Scott and with Jessica Lee of Wildlife Reserves Education Committee Singapore, initiate a preliminary consideration of the connectedness of the Mr Goh Ter Yang international and local parrot trades. More work needs to be done to find the Membership & Fundraising Committee Mr Albert Liu connections, and we look forward to future updates and articles. SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP CHAIRPERSONS Readers may notice that various of the contributions mentioned above Bird Group Mr Lim Kim Chuah appear in a new section, NSS Kaleidoscope. This section specifically features Butterfly & Insect Group Society news and updates. It is intended to incorporate items that would have - appeared in the previous format of the Society’s newsletter Nature News. In this Jalan Hijau Group Mr Tan Hang Chong way Nature Watch will now cover a wider range of materials. Marine Conservation Group As ever, we thank all our contributors, welcome articles from both new Mr Stephen Beng and regular contributors, and wish all our readers, young, old and anywhere in Plant Group Mr Bian Tan between, the very best for New Year 2020. Nature Ramblers Group Mr Pandian Parthasarathy Margie Hall & Gemma Koh Vertebrate Study Group Mr Tony O’Dempsey December 2019 NSS SECRETARIAT Mr Joseph Lim We welcome your stories, articles, surveys, observations and photographs. Please (Accounts & Membership Officer) Mr Kerry Pereira discuss your story ideas with us by emailing a proposal to [email protected]. Do (Member Programme & Outreach Officer) include samples of your photographs (maximum 20 images per submission). We Ms Sung Mei Yee require good quality, high resolution JPEG images (ideally uncropped) in the largest (Project Officer for the Every Singaporean size available, labelled with a descriptive file name. A Naturalist (ESN) Programme) 2 Nature Watch Jul - Dec 2014 Singapore’s domestic and international parrot markets CONTENTS Vol 28 No 1 January – March 2020 Editor 2 Gemma Koh Assistant Editor Margie Hall Designer S.T. Leng Contributors Geoff Lim, Keita Sin, Liz How, Morten Strange, Tan Gim Cheong, Lim Kim Chuah, Francis Chia, Con Foley, Sung May Yee, Anuj Jain, Scott Aloysius, Yong Ding Li, Jessica Lee, Bjorn Olesen, Brice Li, Sean Yeat, Yann Muzika & Norman Lim MCI (P) 064/04/2019 ISSN: 0218-6853 Printing by Mainland Press Pte Ltd My Big Bird Year Copyright belongs to the authors. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or any means without prior permission in writing from Nature Society (Singapore). The views and opinions expressed or implied in this publication are those of the authors and 18 contributors only and do not necessarily reflect the official views of Nature Society (Singapore) or its members. Advertisements To advertise in Nature Watch, contact: Nature Society (Singapore) office at: 510 Geylang Road The Sunflower #02-05 Singapore 389466 13 Tel: (65) 6741 2036 Fax: (65) 6741 0871 Singapore’s International and Subaraj Rajathurai E-mail: [email protected] Domestic Parrot Markets 16 April 1963 - 22 October 19 Website: www.nss.org.sg Advertising rates (full colour): Full page: S$2,000 1/2 Page: S$1,000 20 2/3 page: S$800 1/3 page: S$500 15% discount for four insertions. Nature Watch is printed on LumiArt paper from Stora Enso Europe with ISO 14001 Environmental Management Certification. Mainly recycled paper is used, the rest is pulp from sustainable and controlled sources in Finland, Brazil and other ON THE COVER European countries. Young participants of the 35th Singapore Bird Race. Photo: Francis Chia BIRDLIFE As part of his rehabilitative regime following a traffic accident in April 2015, Geoff Lim returned to walking in Singapore parks to look at birds. The former participant in bird races could no longer compete as he could not walk and ride in cars for prolonged periods. What emerged in 2016 was a 365- day marathon of endurance birding known as a Big Year, with the goal of seeing as many species as possible. Here are highlights. Photos by Con Foley, Geoff Lim, Keita Sin & Liz How 2 Nature Watch Jan – Mar 2020 Pittas are magical balls of exquisitely coloured feathers that have the power to subvert the minds of grown men and cause them to abandon sense and sensibility, driving many to dive into the deepest and dankest forests to search for them. Mangrove Pitta. Photo: Geoff Lim Facing page: Mangrove Blue Flycatcher (left), Red-crowned Barbet. Photos: Con Foley (left), Geoff Lim Jan – Mar 2020 Nature Watch 3 cat, determined to have my mouthful I succumbed to temptation and 17 JAN 2016 of feathers. I suddenly saw an odd stick took leave from work to visit the park. that stuck out perpendicular from a As I was packing to leave my office, made my way quickly towards branch. Uncle Fai, an engineering professor, the knoll. Ominous grey clouds When I applied my binoculars to sent me a text every birder dreads: swirled overhead. A photogra- my eyes, I was rewarded by the sight of “Bird flown”. According to friends pher laden with gear stumbled the Grey Nightjar (Caprimulgus jotaka) and social media, the boobook had towards me. “It’s drizzing,” he looking at the world with half-opened previously flown off when it got weary Isaid, stating the obvious. “No bird.” I eyes. The bird, soaked by the drizzle, of the circus below, but would return nodded, but pressed ahead to my target. shifted its position momentarily for to another bough nearby. I believed it Several weeks ago, another wind- a stretch. After shaking off the water would do the same on the day of my borne migrant visited this same corner from its mottled mantle, Bird #60 outing. of Bidadari and saw the object of my turned back to sit parallel to the branch, After wandering around the quest. He was Noah Strycker (author disappearing from the naked eye. park with my companions and having and researcher from the United States), procured seven ticks, we returned to and for him, it was Bird #5,987 of his the platform to rest from the heat. I record-setting international Big Year 2 FEB 2016 then heard a di-syllabic hu-hu, hu-hu, 2015, in which he saw 6,042 of the hu-hu… from the tangle of mangrove world's estimated 10,400 species.
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