Vol
5 No 3
Nov 98
Colourful Migratory Birds:
Blue-tailed Bee-eater, Common Kingfisher,
Black-capped Kingfisher
BirdWatch '98: how to tell
waders apart
A Year in
the Life of Waders:
migration and breeding
Birds of
Pulau Ubin:
The Red Junglefowl
(Gallus gallus)
Butterfly Appreciation
Friends of
the Park: a tribute to the volunteers
Essence of the Natural Experience:
the year in 1998
Why Wader Census?
Counting shorebirds
at Sungei Buloh |
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Aug 98
Butterfly Appreciation
It
was no easy task as S K Kwan, a volunteer
of the Park, commenced our inaugural volunteer-train-volunteer session where
we went in search of the elusive painted wings. With the wind beneath our
wings, the chase was on.
The first volunteer-train-volunteer session was kicked off with a small
round of Butterfly Trivia, like how to differentiate a butterfly from a
moth.
However, trivial pursuit it was not as
we soon found out that butterfly watching was a more arduous job than
bird watching. Not only are butterflies smaller, they are rather fickle-minded
too, never seeming to make up their mind about where to settle for
a spot of sunbathing. Eventually when they did co-operate, we found
that our binoculars were too powerful and we had to move backwards
to see them properly!
The good thing about butterfly watching is that one does not have
to get up or out early. The best time to observe these insects are
when the sun is up with a light breeze, typically between 10am to
12pm and 2pm to 3pm.
In the short one and a half hours in the Park, we managed to chalk
up 14 species of butterflies flirting happily among their food plants
before we headed back to the Visitor Centre. |
More articles about butterflies
at Sungei Buloh
Butterfly-Plant relationships
at Sungei Buloh
(Vol 7 No 2, Aug 00)
List of butterflies
at Sungei Buloh
(1999-2000)
(Vol 7 No 2, Aug 00)
Butterfly Monitoring and Introduction
at Sungei Buloh
(Vol 6 No 3, Dec 99)
Butterflies and their food plants
(Vol 6 No 1 Apr 99)
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