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| photo: Dairy Farm Nature Park, Singapore |
This is probably the most conspicuous garden bird in Singapore. It will be difficult to find a park in the region that doesn't support a population of this attractive bird, feeding in ornamental trees and breeding low inside dense bushes.
Call is a brief bubbling series of notes, the two birds of a pair calling and raising spread wings over their backs in unison. Its bubbling song provides the wake-up call at daybreak in any 'kampong' or housing estate with a bit of grenery.
Description: Brown above, the head chalky white with a dark crown and dark stripe through the eye; underparts are white, tinged brownish-grey on breast which looks faintly mottled; under tail-coverts pale yellow. Crest often raised into a short peak.
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| location: NUS, Kent Ridge |
The nest is a shallow cup built low inside a dense bush.
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| photo: Botanic Gardens, S'pore |
source: Davidson & Y.F. Chew (2007) Birds of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore
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