SINGAPORE - 21 FEB 2025: The Splendid starling (Lamprotornis splendidus) has a glossy blue-green crown sharply demarcated from glossy green nape and mantle. Iridescent blue back tinged with purple.
SINGAPORE - 8 DEC 2024: The Speckled Pigeon (Columba guinea) is a big, dark pigeon with white spots across the shoulder and a big red patch of bare skin around the eye. It is resident in Africa.
14 MAR 2025: The Speckled Pigeon (Columba guinea) and The Splendid starling (Lamprotornis splendidus) share a feed bowl amicably. Both are residents of Africa. Conservation status: Least Concern (Population stable).
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SINGAPORE - 14 MAR 2025: The Speckled Pigeon (Columba guinea) and Splendid starling (Lamprotornis splendidus) share a feed bowl. Both are residents of Africa. Conservation status: Least Concern.
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SINGAPORE - 14 MAR 2025: Female Vieillot's Black Weavers have olive-green plumage share a feed bowl with the Speckled Pigeon.. Both are residents of Africa. Conservation status: Least Concern.
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June 2024
The chestnut-and-black weaver (Ploceus castaneofuscus) building a nest in the park. It is found in West Africa from Sierra Leone to southern Nigeria. The male is more colourful, being black with chestnut underparts.
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30 JUN 2025. Bird Paradise.
Superb Starling (Lamprotornis superbus)
Canon R5, TV mode, 100mm, 1/2000 sec, f/4.5, ISO 2500
At the Chestnut-and-black weaver enclosure, I sat down next to an Australian lady, plump, sunglasses, married 43 years. "You husband left for a younger woman?." I asked.
"Have you heard of an older woman marrying a younger man?" she asked me. "There are cases where the older woman is rich, but the younger man is poor", I said.
Her daughter (married 19 years) and grand-daughter had booked a hotel room in Wildlife Reserves at over S$1000 per night. "We have never spent so much on a room!" she said. Previously, she was a Secretary, now the position is called "PA" or Personal Assistant. Her mum passed away at 98. She sold the house and gave 50% of the proceeds to her daughter who had married a Scotsman.
She paid for the accommodation while her daughter paid the rest. "I have the money, so why not spend it while I am alive?" she told me. "I may not live to 98 years old." She was born in 1950 and should be 75 years old now. "Your family has longevity genes," I said. "So you will live a long life."
The rain drops fell from the ominous dark clouds. We parted company. She was waiting in this place while her daughter and grand-daughter could walk to see the whole area. It is very difficult for some 75 year olds to walk a lot.
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