This is the first time a white-crowned hornbill has been sighted in Singapore in almost 40 years.
“I was actually hesitant to head over due to the distance... but knowing that the hornbill is a rare bird, I decided to go ahead,” said Chew, who was out photographing birds at Pasir Panjang when he got the alert.
“I was fortunate that when I arrived at the location, the hornbill was already very active, doing circuits which allowed me to shoot it in flight and also its landings,” said Mr Chew, who photographed the bird for two hours before a storm rolled in. The white-crowned hornbill is not a migratory species and lives in the tropical rainforests of neighbouring countries such as Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, said Dr Yong.
The bird was listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List as an endangered species in 2018, up from its previous status of near threatened.
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