{"id":229586,"date":"2026-01-12T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229586\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:40:09","slug":"himalayan-vulture-stuns-in-eastern-singapore-after-rare-sightings-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229586\/","title":{"rendered":"Himalayan vulture stuns in eastern Singapore after rare sightings in the west"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SINGAPORE, Jan 12 \u2014 As sightings of Himalayan vultures in western Singapore excited birdwatchers this past week, a lone bird was also spotted in the east.<\/p>\n<p>Videos shared in a Facebook post showed the vulture drawing public attention as it perched in the middle of a road, prompting motorists and onlookers to stop and take photographs.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Singaporean social news site Mothership, a similar sighting was reported along East Coast Parkway yesterday, following another sighting at Tanah Merah Coast Road a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The Himalayan vulture is reportedly usually found in the high-altitude regions of the Himalayas and is not native to Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore\u2019s The Straits Times reported that Movin Nyanasengeran, president of the Bird Society of Singapore, said the vultures\u2019 appearance over the past week likely coincided with their post-breeding dispersal period, when juvenile birds leave their parents\u2019 territory to roam independently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYoung birds tend to wander more than adults, and these vultures were probably lost during their dispersal,\u201d he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly said that similar sightings in Singapore typically occur every two to three years around the start of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE, Jan 12 \u2014 As sightings of Himalayan vultures in western Singapore excited birdwatchers this past week, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[136751,136747,136748,136746,136750,111,139,69,147,136749,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-229586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bird-society-of-singapore","9":"tag-birdwatchers-western-singapore","10":"tag-east-coast-parkway-sighting","11":"tag-himalayan-vultures-singapore","12":"tag-movin-nyanasengeran","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-tanah-merah-coast-road","18":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}