Quick, what's easier to spot, an empty taxi during rush hour or a black-naped oriole? If you picked the latter, not only do you have very little faith in the city's taxi system, you are also correct.
Volunteers recorded 210 birds from 26 species yesterday in the first Garden Bird Count held at Bishan-Ang Mo Kio park organized by the National Parks Board."In total, more than 400 participants will be spread out across 60 locations over the next 10 days to record bird sightings. Prior to this, they attended a two-hour training session by NParks, where they learnt to identify 30 common birds in Singapore," reports Channel NewsAsia.
Coinciding with the activity was the launch of the SGBioAtlas app which aims to get citizens to contribute to biodiversity sightings — which we think is an idea whose time has come.
Instead of us wasting our time posting photos of teenagers hiding in HDB staircases or people not giving up their seats to pregnant ladies in the name of citizen journalism, we can now contribute to something more worthwhile.
You can, too.
Just promise you won't start giggling like a schoolgirl when you spot birds with the names of scaly-breasted munia, yellow-vented bulbul, scarlet-backed flowerpecker or pick-necked green pigeon — just some of the 30 common species found in Singapore, according to the NParks website.
Photo via NParks Facebook Page
Quick, what's easier to spot, an empty taxi during rush hour or a black-naped oriole? If you picked the latter, not only do you have very little faith in the city's taxi system, you are also correct.
Volunteers recorded 210 birds from 26 species yesterday in the first Garden Bird Count held at Bishan-Ang Mo Kio park organized by the National Parks Board."In total, more than 400 participants will be spread out across 60 locations over the next 10 days to record bird sightings. Prior to this, they attended a two-hour training session by NParks, where they learnt to identify 30 common birds in Singapore," reports Channel NewsAsia.
Coinciding with the activity was the launch of the SGBioAtlas app which aims to get citizens to contribute to biodiversity sightings — which we think is an idea whose time has come.
Instead of us wasting our time posting photos of teenagers hiding in HDB staircases or people not giving up their seats to pregnant ladies in the name of citizen journalism, we can now contribute to something more worthwhile.
You can, too.
Just promise you won't start giggling like a schoolgirl when you spot birds with the names of scaly-breasted munia, yellow-vented bulbul, scarlet-backed flowerpecker or pick-necked green pigeon — just some of the 30 common species found in Singapore, according to the NParks website.
Photo via NParks Facebook Page