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Eagle-like bird spotted at Serangoon North Ave 2

STOMPer John Patrick’s wife and son spotted this huge eagle-like bird perched on a tree top at Serangoon North Ave 2.

In email sent to STOMP today (Oct 31), the 49-year-old civil servant wrote:


“My wife and son spotted this bird which looks like the eagles we see in Jurong Bird Park from our eighth floor flat at Serangoon North Ave 2.


“This was in the afternoon of Oct 29 and it appeared to be a very large bird.”

Keywords:  Serangoon North birds
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joediver12 said   on 3 Nov, 2009   Report as offensive  
it's a hawk. we don have eagles in sg
wrongturn said   on 1 Nov, 2009   Report as offensive  
A frog in the well, so common in Yisun.
varanus_salvator said   on 31 Oct, 2009   Report as offensive  
Video quality is very poor, so identification is really very difficult.

Singapore has quite a number of different species of birds of prey; it's possible that this was an Oriental honey buzzard or changeable hawk-eagle, or even a juvenile white-bellied sea eagle.