Starlings

Starlings

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A7R4. in APS-C mode

A1. 12 Jun 2022

FE 200-600/5.6-6.3 G

GM 600/4 10 Sept 2022

MT190CXPRO3/BHQ2

190XPROB/GHFG1. Feb 2022

MT190CXPRO3/GHFG1. May 2022

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.

f8 1/500. @600mm, ISO 1000, Rower's Bay Seletar Club Road, 15 Mar 2022

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.

Male, f5.6 1/1250. ISO 2500, GM600. TC1.4x, Woodlands Fu Shan Garden, 19 Nov 2022

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

f8 1/2500. @600mm, ISO 2000, Keppel Discovery Wetlands, MT190CXPRO3/BHQ2, 8 Sept 2021

Male grey-whitish, female brownish back

Orange-headed Thrush

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

f6.3 1/400. @600mm, ISO 6400, Learning Forest, 23 Feb 2022

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.

A6400, f8 1/640. @560mm, ISO 3200, Keppel Discovery Wetlands, 25 Aug 2021

A6400, f6.3 1/500. @600mm, ISO 2500, Hindhede Nature Park, 29 Dec 2019

f9 1/500 @600mm, TC 1.4x, ISO 8000, Woodlands Waterfront, 8 July 2022

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.