Nature Spies

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

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Mangrove tree dwelling crab Selatium brockii @Southern Isle by kevin

Mangrove tree dwelling crab Selatium brockii @Southern Isle by kevin
Originally uploaded by koiyau.

This crab was posing quite inanimately on a juvenile mangrove tree. (am tempted to call it Mangrove small tree Clinging for dear life crab) Thanks to the sharp eye of ysf (who was trying to id the tree actually) I could take a close shot of this crab and id it from a BP guidebook from the greenish tinge of the eye. I am guessing the loss of habitat for this crab forced it to find shelter in quite an inappropriate tree size for itself

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Male Ornamental tree trunk spider by syazkal

link

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Friday, January 26, 2007

Variable squirrel Callosciurus finlaysonisnacking noni fruit by Daniel Koh

Wow haven't even heard of this particular species before. Its also known as Finlayson's squirrel species name is Callosciurus finlaysoni . Id is by Daniel Koh (how does he spot these creatures??) Got the name from Kwok Wai's Wildlife Singapore. Its listed at wikipedia as an introduced species (i can't confirm this. anyone can verify?)

Budak points to this other source that says its introduced

p.s. for more shots of this furry creature check out Daniel's post

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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Land hermit crab Coenobita purpureus @ Southern Isles by Kevin

Land hermit crab Coenobita cavipes @ Southern Isles by Kevin
Originally uploaded by koiyau.

Ha this poor bloke was housed in a Giant East African snail shell (which is very incongruous with a sea shore). Even though the shell was already pretty large, the Land Hermit Crab still can't hide itself into the shell. Oh well at least the soft bits are protected.

wow thanks felix for digging up this old post!

I based my id on this http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/text/2063.htm

will doublecheck this...

here's relevant links for those interested in the differences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coenobita_purpureus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coenobita_cavipes

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Storkbilled Kingfisher Taken @ Pasir Ris Mangrove Swamp

there's also a unknown bird in this thread
link

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Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis by Arthur Chng

Female with a fish

link

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Sunday, January 14, 2007

Singapore Fishing Spider Thalassius albocinctus at singaporefauna blog!

link
http://www.singaporefauna.blogspot.com/

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Various Insect Macros @ BTNR by Wee Lee

Thanks to Wee Lee for consenting to use the pics here
link to cs post

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Monday, January 08, 2007

Jumping Spider eating mosquito @ Punggol Park by tchuanye

More great shots by the maestro of macro

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Sunday, January 07, 2007

Seahorse @ Chek Jawa by Shufen

For their other finds check out Teamseagrass

Thanks Shufen for letting to use her great photo!

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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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