Sunday, December 08, 2024

Starlings

Starlings

Starlings

 

 

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

 

 

Woodlands Waterfront, 7 Mar 2024 

f7.1 1/1000. ISO 800, GM600 TC1.4x, MT190CXPRO3/GHFG1

 

Woodlands HDB, 31 Oct 2024

f5.6 1/640. ISO 1000, GM600 TC1.4x, 190B/WH-200II

 

A6400, Woodlands Town Centre, 12 Dec 2019

f6.3 1/2000. @600mm, ISO 1600, MT190CXPRO3/BHQ2

 

Adult and Juvenile, A6400, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, 17 Nov 2019

f7.1 1/1250. @600mm, ISO 1250, MT190CXPRO3/BHQ2

 

Woodlands Fu Shan Garden, 19 Nov 2022

f5.6 1/1000. ISO 5000, GM600 TC1.4x, MT190CXPRO3/GHFG1

 

f5.6 1/1000. ISO 8000, GM600 TC1.4x, Woodlands Fu Shan Garden, 19 Nov 2022

 

f5.6 1/1000. ISO 3200, GM600 TC1.4x, Woodlands Fu Shan Garden, 19 Nov 2022

 

Admiralty Park, 2 Jul 2024

f5.6 1/500. ISO 6400, GM600 TC1.4x, MT190CXPRO3/GHFG1

 

Venus Link, Windsor Nature Park, 30 Apr 2024

f5.6 1/640. ISO 4000, GM600 TC1.4x

 

Venus Link, Windsor Nature Park, 30 Apr 2024

f5.6 1/500. ISO 6400, GM600 TC1.4x

 

f8 1/500. ISO 1250, GM600 TC1.4x, Woodlands Road, 7 Apr 2023

 

f5.6 1/3200. ISO 3200, GM600 TC1.4x, Jurong Lake Gardens, 10 Nov 2023

 

f5.6 1/1250. ISO 6400, GM600 TC1.4x, Admiralty Park, 9 Jun 2024

 

Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, 9 May 2024

f5.6 1/1250. ISO 6400, GM600 TC1.4x

 

Woodlands Road, 9 Dec 2023

f8 1/1000. ISO 800, GM600 TC1.4x, MT190CXPRO3/GHFG1

 

Woodlands Waterfront, 3 Apr 2024

f8 1/3200. ISO 800, GM600 TC1.4x, MT190CXPRO3/GHFG1

 

 

Woodlands Road, 17 Oct 2024

f5.6 1/3200. ISO 2000, GM600 TC1.4x, 190B/WH-200II

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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