Starlings

Starlings

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A1. 12 Jun 2022

FE 200-600/5.6-6.3 G

GM 600/4 10 Sept 2022

Manfrotto Series 190

Berlebach Report 8013

GHFG1. 14 Dec 2021

WH-200II. 29 Jun 2024

White-shouldered Starling

A pale starling wiht diagnostic white shoudler patches. Male pale grey on head and upper breast with the rest of the upperparts white. Large white shoulder patch, contrasting sharply with black flight feathers. Female mostly grey with smaller white patch on wings. Yojng bird similar to female but lakes white wing patch.

Reference: Birds of Singapore by Yong Ding Li and Lim Kim Chuah

A7R4 APS-C mode, Rower's Bay Seletar Club Road, 15 Mar 2022

f8 1/500. @600mm, ISO 1000, 190XPROB/GHFG1

Daurian Starling

A pale starling wiht a dark back. Male grey on head, paler the rest of the underparts, contrasting with dark back, wings and tail. Back purple. Wings dark green, broken by white scapular patch and smaller pale patches on flight feathers. Female similar, but with brownish wash on upperparts. Some birds may have pale yellow-orange head as a result of probing into flowers.

Reference: Birds of Singapore by Yong Ding Li and Lim Kim Chuah

Male, Woodlands Fu Shan Garden, 19 Nov 2022

Male, f5.6 1/1250. ISO 2500, GM600. TC1.4x, MT190CXPRO3/GHFG1

Male, f5.6 1/1000. ISO 2500, GM600. TC1.4x, Woodlands Fu Shan Garden, 19 Nov 2022

Male, f5.6 1/1000. ISO 5000, GM600. TC1.4x, Woodlands Fu Shan Garden, 19 Nov 2022

Female, f5.6 1/1000. ISO 4000, GM600. TC1.4x, Woodlands Fu Shan Garden, 19 Nov 2022

Male grey-whitish, female brownish back, Keppel Discovery Wetlands, 8 Sept 2021

A7R4 APS-C mode, f8 1/2500. @600mm, ISO 2000, MT190CXPRO3/BHQ2

Orange-headed Thrush

Bright orange ground-thrush. Head and underparts to lower belly orange-rufous. Rest of the upperparts, including wings, bluish grey.

Reference: Birds of Singapore by Yong Ding Li and Lim Kim Chuah

A7R4 APS-C mode, Learning Forest, 23 Feb 2022

f6.3 1/400. @600mm, ISO 6400, 190XPROB/GHFG1

Common Hill Myna

A large, dark forest starling which is not common. Plumage glossy black with fleshy orange-yellow wattles on nape and below eye, and white patch on wings. Bill distinctive bright orange with yellow tips. Flies with strong but shallow flapping, somewhat like a pigeon.

Reference: Birds of Singapore by Yong Ding Li and Lim Kim Chuah

Woodlands Road, Opposite Woodlands Fire Station, 27 May 2023

f5.6 1/2500. ISO 4000, GM600 TC1.4x, MT190CXPRO3/GHFG1

A6400, Hindhede Nature Park, 29 Dec 2019

f6.3 1/500. @600mm, ISO 2500, MT190CXPRO3/BHQ2

Woodlands Waterfront, 8 July 2022

f9 1/500 @600mm, TC 1.4x, ISO 8000, MT190CXPRO3/GHFG1

f8 1/2500. ISO 2500, GM600 TC1.4x, 19 Apr 2023

Woodlands Road, Opposite Woodlands Fire Station

Asian Glossy Starling

One of the few red-eyed birds of Singapore. Juvenile start off with a reddish-brown iris that becomes bloody-red as they mature. Adults have an entirely glossy green plumage that can appear black in poor light. Juveniles have grey-brown upperparts with paler underparts streaked grey.

Reference: Birds of Singapore by Yong Ding Li and Lim Kim Chuah