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Palmate feet – Chilean flamingo. Totipalmate feet – blue-footed booby. Western grebe presenting a lobate foot. Lobate feet – a chick of the Eurasian coot. The great crested grebe. The feet in loons [2] and grebes [2] [7] are placed far at the rear of the body - a powerful accommodation to swimming underwater, [7] but a handicap for walking.
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Singapore.The avifauna of Singapore include a total of 450 species, 35 of which have been introduced by humans. [1]This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2023b edition. [2]
Singapore has about 65 species of mammals, 390 species of birds, 110 species of reptiles, 30 species of amphibians, more than 300 butterfly species, [1] 127 dragonfly species, [2] and over 2,000 recorded species of marine wildlife. [3] [4]
A 2016 list recorded the following vernacular names for this species: palmate salty bird's-beak; palmate bird's-beak; palmate-bracted bird's-beak; palmate-bract bird's-beak; palm-bract bird's-beak; and Ferris's bird's-beak. [4] Note: Variations in apostrophe & hyphen use are omitted here. Also, some names may have been taken from Wikipedia.
By some estimates, there has been a loss of 95% of the natural habitats of Singapore over the course of the past 183 years. [2] Due to the deforestation, over 20 species of freshwater fish, 100 species of bird, and a number of mammals became locally extinct. [3] A 2003 estimate put the proportion of extinct species as over 28%. [4]
Adding to this conundrum are fossilized footprints of bird-like tracks that are 210 million years old—a good 60 million years before the arrival of the genus Archaeopteryx, one of the oldest ...
The palmate newt (Lissotriton helveticus) is a species of newt found in Western Europe, from Great Britain to the northern Iberian Peninsula. It is 5–9.5 cm (2.0–3.7 in) long and olive or brown with some dark spots. The underside is yellow to orange, and the throat, unlike in the similar smooth newt, always unspotted. A dark stripe runs ...
Pages in category "Birds of Singapore" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...