Singapore Raptor Report January 2019
Jerdon's Baza, at Lorong Halus, on 6 Jan 2019, by Angela Yeo
Summary for migrant species:
In January, 90 raptors of 7 migrant species were recorded. Up to six Jerdon's Bazas Aviceda jerdoni were recorded at Lorong Halus-Coney Island area throughout the month, one at Bukit Timah Hill on the 12th and another found wintering at Changi Business Park from the 27th onwards.
Nine Japanese Sparrowhawks Accipiter gularis were recorded: two at Kranji Marshes, and singles at Mount Faber, Bukit Timah area, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (SBWR), Dempsey Road, West Coast Park, Punggol Promenade and Arena Country Club. A single Chinese Sparrowhawk Accipiter soloensis was recorded at Lorong Halus on the 5th.
Page 1 of 9 Three Western Ospreys Pandion haliaetus were recorded, one at Sungei Buloh, one at the Central Catchment on the 23rd and another at Pulau Ubin on the 30th. Three migrant Peregrine Falcons Falco peregrinus were recorded, one at Gardens by the Bay, one at Kranji Marshes and one in the Bukit Timah area.
For the 29 Black Baza Aviceda leuphotes recorded, eight were at Serangoon Avenue 3. Lastly, a total of 31 migrant Oriental Honey Buzzards Pernis ptilorhyncus were recorded in January.
Changeable Hawk Eagle, dark morph, at Serangoon Reservoir, on 6 Jan 2019, by Zhang Licong
Highlights for sedentary species:
Amazingly, four Crested Serpent Eagles Spilornis cheela were recorded, one at the Botanic Gardens on the 2nd, one at Malcolm Road on the 14th, one at SBWR on the 16th and one at Pulau Ubin on the 20th. An Eastern Barn Owl Tyto delicatula was photographed in the daytime at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve on the 17th.
Three torquatus Oriental Honey Buzzzards were recorded in January, one at Mount Faber on the 2nd, and up to two immatures at Pasir Ris Park between the 7th and 31st. Three ernesti Peregrine Falcons were reported, one at Bishan on the 6th and two in the CBD.
Page 2 of 9 The other sedentary raptors recorded included four Grey-headed Fish Eagles, four Crested Goshawk, seven Changeable Hawk-Eagles, ten Black-winged Kites, and the common White-bellied Sea Eagles and Brahminy Kites.
Table 1 S/N Species No. S/N Species No. 1 Western Osprey 3 Residents / Sedentary Species 2 Jerdon's Baza 8 8 Black-winged Kite 10 3 Black Baza 29 9 Brahminy Kite 16 4 Oriental Honey Buzzard 34 10 White-bellied Sea Eagle 13 5 Chinese Sparrowhawk 1 11 Grey-headed Fish Eagle 4 6 Japanese Sparrowhawk 9 12 Crested Serpent Eagle 4 7 Peregrine Falcon 6 13 Crested Goshawk 4 14 Changeable Hawk-Eagle 7 15 Eastern Barn Owl 1
Total for Migrants 90 Grand Total 149
Page 3 of 9 1. Western Osprey Pandion haliaetus (3)
Date No. Location and Details Reported By 14 1 SBWR Meena Vathyam 23 1 CCNR Tay Kian Guan 27 1 SBWR Francis Chia 29 1 SBWR Steven Cheong 30 1 Pulau Ubin Veronica Foo 31 1 SBWR Seah Kok Meng
2. Jerdon's Baza Aviceda jerdoni (8)
Date No. Location and Details Reported By 2 1 Lorong Halus, 9:20am Steven Cheong 6 1 Lorong Halus Angela Yeo 9 1 Coney Island Steve Ang 12 1 Bukit Timah hill top, 1:10pm See Toh Yew Wai 16 3 Lorong Halus Martin Kennewell 20 2 Lorong Halus Thio Hui Bing 24 1 Lorong Halus, 8:30am Veronica Foo 24 6 Lorong Halus, 2 at 8:40am, 6 at 8:40am, 6 at Sandra Chia, 9:20am, could be the same birds Oliver Tan 27 1 Changi Business Park Ramesh T. 29 1 Changi Business Park Herman Phua
3. Black Baza Aviceda leuphotes (29)
Date No. Location and Details Reported By 1 2 NTU James Lambert 11 1 Pasir Ris Park Alvin Seng 14 1 Malcolm Road Stuart Campbell 16 8 Serangoon Avenue 3 Lee Ee Ling 16 4 Pasir Ris Park Stuart Campbell 17 3 Tampines Eco-Green, adults Alvin Seng 20 1 Botanic Gardens Neil Bruce 21 1 Changi Business Park Herman Phua 22 4 Kranji Marshes Feroz Ghazali 23 5 Lorong Halus Ian Halliday 27 1 Kent Ridge Park Peter Bono 27 2 Lim Chu Kang Lane 3 Russell Boyman 27 1 Chinese Garden Peter Bono 29 2 Botanic Gardens Ong Ruici 30 1 Tanah Merah Country Club, 8:56am Henrietta Woo, Rachel Lim 30 1 East Coast Park, noon Thio Hui Bing 30 1 Changi Business Park Herman Phua
Page 4 of 9 4. Oriental Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhyncus (34) orientalis unless indicated otherwise
Date No. Location and Details Reported By 1 1 Kranji Marshes Zacc HD 2 1 Lorong Halus, male Steven Cheong 2 1 Mount Faber, torquatus Joyce Chia 4 1 Lorong Halus Kerry Pereira 6 1 Lorong Halus, male Zhang Licong 6 1 Telok Blangah Joyce Chia 6 1 Bedok, juvenile Gerard Francis 6 1 Chinese Garden, female pale morph Tony Chua 7 1 Pasir Ris Park, immature torquatus Alvin Seng 8 2 Pasir Ris Park, immature torquatus Alvin Seng 8 1 Bishan, adult male pale morph Lee Boon 10 1 Telok Blangah Joyce Chia 13 1 Padang, juvenile Francis Chia 14 1 Pasir Ris Park, immature torquatus Alvin Seng 14 1 Yishun, male dark morph Mark Lim Tee Sin 15 1 Hougang Francis Chia 16 1 Mount Faber Joyce Chia 19 1 St. Mary of the Angels Church, Bukit Batok East Kerry Pereira Ave 6 19 1 Kallang Tennis Centre Francis Chia 20 2 Lorong Halus Thio Hui Bing 20 1 Upper East Coast Road, juvenile Herman Phua 21 1 Changi Business Park, juvenile Herman Phua 22 1 Pasir Ris Town Park, adult male dark morph Carol Lim 23 1 Eastwood, adult male Herman Phua 24 1 Geylang Lorong 28 Kerry Pereira 29 1 Changi Business Park, juvenile Herman Phua 30 1 Zheng Hua Park Aini 30 1 East Coast Park Thio Hui Bing 30 1 Tanah Merah Country Club, 8:07am Henrietta Woo, Rachel Lim 31 1 Pasir Ris Park, immature torquatus Alvin Seng 31 2 East Coast Park Hawker Centre, immature Thio HB
5. Chinese Sparrowhawk Accipiter soloensis (1)
Date No. Location and Details Reported By 5 1 Lorong Halus Peng Ah Huay
6. Japanese Sparrowhawk Accipiter gularis (9)
Date No. Location and Details Reported By 1 2 Kranji Marshes Martin Kennewell 2 1 Mount Faber, juvenile Joyce Chia 8 1 Dairy Farm Nature Park Martin Kennewell 14 1 SBWR Martin Kennewell
Page 5 of 9 15 1 Dempsey Road, juvenile Laurence Eu 19 1 West Coast Park Neil Bruce 20 1 Arena Country Club Mike Hooper 22 1 Punggol Promenade Martin Kennewell 25 1 Hindhede Nature Park Martin Kennewell
7. Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus (6)
Date No. Location and Details Reported By 6 1 Bishan, ernesti, apparently last seen at locality 4 Sun Chong Hong years ago 7 1 Gardens by the Bay Grame Risdon 8 2 CBD, ernesti Lee Ee Ling 9 1 Bukit Timah hill top, juvenile japonicus, 6:15pm See Toh Yew Wai 14 1 Gardens by the Bay Henk Jan Oosterhuis 16 1 Dairy Farm Nature Park Roger McNeill 19 1 Bukit Timah Nature Reserve Roger McNeill 25 1 Kranji Marshes Martin Kennewell
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Oriental Honey Buzzard, immature torquatus, at Pasir Ris Park, on 8 Jan 2019, by Alvin Seng
Resident raptors
8. Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus (10)
Date No. Location and Details Reported By 15 2 Satay by the Bay Keita Sin 16 1 Pasir Ris Park Stuart Campbell 22 3 Kranji Marshes Feroz Ghazali 23 2 SBWR Martin Kennewell 28 4 Pasir Ris Farmway 3 John Marriott
Page 7 of 9 9. Brahminy Kite Haliastur indus (16)
Date No. Location and Details Reported By 2 1 MacRitchie Reservoir, immature Veronica Foo 2 1 Mount Faber, juvenile Joyce Chia 4 2 Mount Faber Joyce Chia 5 1 Botanic Gardens Kerry Pereira 5 2 Tampines Eco-Green, adults Alvin Seng 8 1 Geylang Lorong 27 Kerry Pereira 16 2 Mount Faber Joyce Chia 17 2 Tampines Eco-Green, adults Alvin Seng 19 1 Kallang Tennis Centre Francis Chia 27 2 Tampines Eco-Green, adults Alvin Seng 28 1 Stevens MRT Kerry Pereira 29 1 SBWR, adult Kelvin Leong 30 1 Pulau Ubin Veronica Foo 30 1 East Coast Park Thio Hui Bing 30 1 Phoenix Park office campus, Tanglin Road Frances Loke 30 1 Coney Island Sarah Martens 31 4 Mount Faber Joyce Chia
10. White-bellied Sea Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster (13)
Date No. Location and Details Reported By 4 4 Mount Faber Joyce Chia 5 1 Botanic Gardens Kerry Pereira 16 2 Henderson Waves Joyce Chia 18 2 Lorong Halus Kerry Pereira 20 2 Lorong Halus, one immature Thio Hui Bing 20 1 Upper East Coast Road Herman Phua 23 1 CCNR Tay Kian Guan 23 1 Pulau Seringat Frances Loke 27 1 Tanah Merah Coast Road, juvenile Ramesh T 30 2 Pulau Ubin, 1 juvenile Veronica Foo 30 1 East Coast Park Thio Hui Bing 31 1 Mount Faber, juvenile Joyce Chia 31 1 Pulau Tekong Jamie Whitehouse
11. Grey-headed Fish Eagle Haliaeetus ichthyaetus (4)
Date No. Location and Details Reported By 2 1 MacRitchie Reservoir, adult Veronica Foo 20 1 Pulau Ubin Pary Sivaraman 25 1 Little Guilin, adult Ulf Remahl 29 1 Singapore Quarry, adult Ulf Remahl 31 1 SBWR, adult Wang HM
Page 8 of 9 12. Crested Serpent Eagle Spilornis cheela (4)
Date No. Location and Details Reported By 2 1 Botanic Gardens, 12:30pm John Marriott 14 1 Malcolm Road Stuart Campbell 16 1 SBWR Lim Kim Seng 20 1 Pulau Ubin Pary Sivaraman
13. Crested Goshawk Accipiter trivirgatus (4)
Date No. Location and Details Reported By 10 1 Pasir Ris Park, juvenile Alvin Seng 11 2 Henderson Waves Joyce Chia 13 1 Bishan Park, juvenile Kennie Goh 14 1 Pasir Ris Park, juvenile Carol Lim 22 1 Pasir Ris Park Alvin Seng 24 1 Pasir Ris Park Feroz N Fizah
15. Changeable Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus cirrhatus (7)
Date No. Location and Details Reported By 4 1 Telok Blangah Joyce Chia 5 1 Botanic Gardens Kerry Pereira 6 1 Punggol-Serangoon Reservoir Zhang Licong 16 1 Henderson Waves Joyce Chia 18 1 Pasir Ris Park, adult pale morph Francis Chia 20 1 Lorong Halus, heard only Thio Hui Bing 20 1 Upper East Coast Road, juvenile Herman Phua 23 1 CCNR Tay Kian Guan 30 1 East Coast Park, adult pale morph, noon Thio Hui Bing
16. Eastern Barn Owl Tyto delicatula (1)
Date No. Location and Details Reported By 17 1 SBWR Wang HM
abbreviations: SBWR: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve CCNR: Central Catchment Nature Reserve
Compiled by Tan Gim Cheong
Note: The numbers in brackets beside the bird names indicates the total number seen for this month. Different reports of the same raptors from the same area have been discounted to avoid duplication.
Many thanks to everyone who had reported their sightings in one way or another, and also thanks to Angela Yeo, Zhang Licong, and Alvin Seng for the use of their photos.
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