Nature Spies

‘When a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it fall, did it fall?’

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Banded Leaf Monkey by hiker/Daniel Koh

http://forums.clubsnap.com/showthread.php?t=225021
New sighting for today!! It wasn't too long ago that Daniel spotted them!
Thanks Daniel for kindly allowing me to directly link to his pictures.

edit: sorry to Daniel for getting his name wrong! Wat a faux pas!!

# posted by Kevin @ 7:27 PM 0 comments

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Blue-Throated Bee Eater Merops viridis @ Marina by skfoo

link to photos

Beautiful photos!

references
info on the Blue-Throated Bee Eater
http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/birds/Merops_viridis.htm

nesting behaviour on the BES blog
http://besgroup.blogspot.com/2006/09/blue-throated-bee-eater.html

More images on google
http://www.google.com.sg/search?q=Blue-Throated+Bee+Eater

# posted by Kevin @ 12:30 PM 0 comments

Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis @ SBWR by Steven

link to photos

Did you know that the 'Common' kingfisher in Singapore is not common? And it might be a true "fisher" in the sense that it really specialises in fishing!

references
Info on the common kingfisher
http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/birds/Alcedo_atthis.htm

# posted by Kevin @ 12:22 PM 0 comments

Photos @ Pulau Hantu by Jeff

Take a peek into Singapore waters! Who said sg dives are boring?
link

# posted by Kevin @ 12:08 PM 0 comments

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

kacang-kacang Aegiceras corniculatum @ Pulau Ubin by Shufen

kacang-kacang Aegiceras corniculatum @ Pulau Ubin by Shufen
Originally uploaded by koiyau.

Spotted by Shufen on one of our trips to Ubin, this uncommon mangrove plant

was just beside us when we were looking at mudskippers. Its in a rather

precarious position right now.(right beside a track). A funny story was that

when we saw the propagules, one of us thought its immature, another thought

that it can't be all immature at the same time and clustered together in one

bunch. Guess who was right? Hint: check out the word crytovivipary



mangrove flora: kacang-kacang (Aegiceras corniculatum)

http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/text/1048.htm

Vivipary

http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/text/1044.htm

# posted by Kevin @ 10:25 AM 0 comments

Email me your wild happenings to be included in this public calendar! prefer ics format(outlook, pdas, most handphones use this format) will try to regularly add happenings from Ria's wildsingapore email pls email me also if you do not wish to be listed on this calendar

disclaimer-I am not affliated with most of the organisers and I do not claim 100% accuracy for the events listed. I will list all revelant urls and emails when provided. This is created for my convenience primarily and i hope to benefit you as well

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Introduction

I am an avid photographer who has a more than average interest in Biology. Hence I majored in it in my course of study in university. Hence I am one of the curious few who asks, "what is the species name of that XXX that I just took a picture of ?" and also I wonder how XXX looks like or if it still exists in Singapore/ BTNR/ Pierce / MacRitchie/ Seletar/ Nee Soon Swamp forest.

Hence my inspiration for this project. If the project would have a more serious name as perhaps like in a scientific journal, it would be called.

A visual record of the flora and fauna of Singapore Island with geographical and temporal data

but of course that's quite a mouthful and typically dry. Hence I decided to call this blog "Nature Spies" in appreciation to the avid nature photographers who are shooting up a storm every weekend risking malaria and dengue and take only pictures away from our nature reserves.

How do I post?

Firstly you can make better use of your camera's ability to record data. Switch on your IPTC info so that we can know the time of the shot. For the geographical data we would need your own input. For this part I would leave it up to your discretion. You can be as brief as bukit timah nature reserve or be more verbose and include directions to your favourite hideout with GPS coordinates. (see geo caching in google!) but don't be too brief for e.g. Singapore, Northern /Southern /Eastern /Western Singapore, Exceptions are offshore islands like Pulau Hantu, Pulau Ubin (yes underwater photos are greatly appreciated here too!) I won't own your pictures so don't worry about copyrights. There's no need for you to edit the picture size as well. They will be auto cropped to the same size when posted.

I have set up this blog to be self-maintained. you just have to email the picture and put in the email title the name of the organism or "unknown" if you don't know. Where and when you saw the animal/plant goes in the body of the email. Then just send it to the email below! Visit here to see your post! Heh but so far I am the only one posting. UXHLFMTTCFSZ@spammotel.com any qns? email me at trashmail

Q: Why should the species name be in italics?

A: Heh well firstly that's how the names are meant to be written (see link below) and well I haven't found out how to italicise the blog titles in RSS feeds so if you see funny stuff like < i > < / i > its meant for the html reader actually

Related Blogs

• Greens n Creatures Big n Small
• Bird Ecology Study Group Blog!
• Sg Fauna Blog!
• SLOG! Documenting Snake Sightings in Singapore
• Butterflies of Singapore

Links

• Nature related News and articles
• Discover Life provides free on-line tools to identify species, share ways to teach and study nature's wonders
• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Rainforest:How they work
• Geocaching?
• Species names in italics?
• Habitatnews - Natural history news for the busy Singaporean
• The Singapore Naturalist!
• Ria's thoughts on Nature Photography
• National Biodiversity Reference Centre (NBRC)
• Listing of SG's Marine Protected Areas


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