I'm amazed at the bird diversity that flies past my window in a very built up location.

High rise apartment blocks all around, a metro line about a kilometre away and I see woodpeckers, hawks, hornbills, orioles, parakeets and migratory birds.

Sometimes very special living in Singapore.

The hornbills are a recent couple who just moved into the neighbourhood a couple of months back. So far very good neighbours.

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hunkalove · 61-69, M

I live in the middle of Denver near downtown and all I see these days are pigeons. Used to be a lot, including hawks. All gone.

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Longpatrol · 31-35, M

@hunkalove That's sad :(
How are the municipal authorities decided? Via election or...?

hunkalove · 61-69, M

@Longpatrol Mayor and city council are elected. Everyone else is appointed. It's all very corrupt. I used to work for a city councilman and i learned about it firsthand. I think it has gotten even worse since then.

Longpatrol · 31-35, M

@hunkalove damn

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

That is really a lot of diversity to be in a populated city with so many high-rises. I wonder how many birds crash into a window and die there?

Longpatrol · 31-35, M

@cherokeepatti Maybe quite a few in the business district, that shit is all glass and steel. But near the residential areas it's rare. And lots of trees in the country so birds have lots of places to be resting rather than flying,

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Longpatrol I have heard hawks crash up against the house and one time against my window when they were chasing birds to eat. I don’t know what kept the window from breaking, walked outside and the hawk had a robin down in the flowerbed, saw me and flew over the fence to the neighbors yard to kill & eat it. Every once in a while I’ll find a pile of bird feathers on the ground where they’ve killed other birds.

SomeMichGuy · M

Neat!

NangiUniverse · 31-35, M

They could have migrated from Sarawak, of the Malaysian Borneo, or Western Kalimantan of the Indonesian Borneo.

Longpatrol · 31-35, M

@NangiUniverse We have a native population of hornbills. Not migrants.

NangiUniverse · 31-35, M

I see, @Longpatrol .

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