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Soundscape 101: Soundscape Walk at Gardens by the Bay

On 18 April 2026 we conducted our first Soundscape Walk at Gardens by the Bay and ended the event off with a talk by Kaeden. Find out more about the fascinating world of bird vocalisations, birding by ear, and how to hone your sound identification skills through this recorded presentation.

8 Jun 2026

Seeing Sounds, Hearing Feathers

Why do birds call, and what do they mean? What about other sounds made by the birds? How can we best remember and document them? Keita Sin’s spotlight talk Seeing Sounds, Hearing Feathers at the 2025 Festival of Biodiversity seeks to answer some of the questions we have about the enigmatic world of bird sounds. Read on to watch the full recording of the talk.

25 Jun 2025

Birding in Wartime: Documenting Avian Fauna in Changi Prison

An Introduction to Malayan Birds by Guy Madoc is a book with an extraordinary history – it was written in prison during World War II. In January 2025, Fenella Madoc, the daughter of Guy Madoc, shared her father’s story as a prisoner of war in Changi Prison and how he was able to put together a book about birds in the most extreme of circumstances. Read on to watch the full video of her story, Keita’s short talk about the importance of such literature in Singapore, and a fireside chat with Fenella, Keita, and Yen Yi and Kathy from the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum.

17 Jun 2025

Of Names and Folklore: Green Market 2023

The Singapore Birds Project recently conducted a walk, talk, AND booth at the Green Market 2023!! Thanks NLB Punggol for inviting us to the event, and we hope that all of you enjoyed our booth. And or those of you who missed it, don’t worry – NLB recorded our talk, which you can re-watch in this very blog post!

6 Aug 2023

Blurred Lines: Navigating the Space Between Native and Non-native

Singapore Birds Project was invited to participate in a conference organised by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (ARI, NUS) and shared about birds in Singapore and discussed the complexities of classifying “non-native” and “native” species in the highly modified local landscape.

3 Jun 2023

Singapore Birds Project: Why record-keeping matters!

We were invited by the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum to give a webinar on 15 March 2022 about the history of records keeping in Singapore and the importance of our Singapore Bird Database. Watch us nerd out about Singapore’s ornithological efforts!

16 Mar 2022