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Vol 2 No 1 Jun 95 A Haven for Migrant Birds Sightings of Smooth Otters at Sungei Buloh One Night Rambler's Experience at Sungei Buloh First Anniversary Celebrations Bird Ringing Station at Sungei Buloh VIP Visits		Bird Ringing Station at the Park To ring a bird is to put a band, with the address of the ringing station, around the leg of a bird. A ringing station is a research base where ringers along the world's bird migratory routes could forward data of birds. Rings are clipped around the leg of a captured bird after its morphometric data, moult patterns, weight changes are recorded. When ringers in other parts of the world capture the bird, they will forward the latest data gathered about the bird to the address on the existing ring. Sungei Buloh Nature Park has been using rings from the British Trust of Ornithology (B.T.O.), supplied by Dr. David Wells, University of Malaya to ring its waders (shorebirds) and passerines (perching birds). As of February 1995, the Park has set up its own ringing station and the Park's address is engraved on the rings. At present, there is no other ringing station in Singapore. The wader ringing programme begins in September each year, at the arrival of the migrant birds, till March the following year when they will return to their home ground for breeding. For the period of March till September, the ringers here will not be idle as we had initiated a passerine ringing programme to ring the resident perching birds in order to study their population ecology and movements around the Park and in Singapore. If bird ringing sounds interesting to you, join us! We need volunteers to assist in the setting up of mist nets and in the retrieval and ringing of birds. Please contact the Scientific Officer at for details.
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