Walking along the nature trail at Jurong Eco Garden, i thought i had spooked a nightjar resting close to the trail. Seeing it in the shadow of the canopy, i realised that it was not a nightjar but something else. The bird was sitting upright and looking about actively. The resident laughing thrushes were making a lot of noise likely because of the prescence of the crested goshawk.
The raptor flew to another branch closeby where it received a earful from a racket-tailed drongo which was also not happy about its prescence. It finally flew off to another set of branches followed by the drongo.
Read more about this resident accipiter :
http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3420
http://www.malaysianbirds.com/bird-family/goshawk.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crested_goshawk
https://singaporeraptors.wordpress.com/crested-goshawk/
http://www.besgroup.org/2012/04/30/crested-goshawk-sighted-with-prey/
http://www.besgroup.org/2012/02/22/crested-goshawk-caught-a-myna/
http://www.besgroup.org/2015/03/15/crested-goshawk-feasting-on-a-common-palm-civet/
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