{"id":26756,"date":"2026-01-08T11:55:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=26756"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:55:48","slug":"hotline-logs-record-650-reports-of-bird-deaths-in-2025-mostly-from-building-collisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=26756","title":{"rendered":"Hotline logs record 650 reports of bird deaths in 2025, mostly from building collisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span>CHANGES IN SPECIES TRENDS<\/span><\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The hotline has also begun collecting additional data, such as the direction of impact, to better understand collision patterns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>It has revealed changes in species trends as well. For example, while no cases of black-beaked dwarf kingfishers \u2013 a migratory species \u2013 were recorded in 2024, 10 cases were reported in 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>\u201cThat\u2019s a sign that the species is still alive, but it\u2019s also sad to see that they are still crashing into our buildings and structures,\u201d Dr Tan told CNA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Singapore sees an influx of migratory bird movement from September to late December,<\/span> as they escape winter in the northern hemisphere.\u00a0<span>Dr Tan said these are the peak months for cases involving migratory birds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The blue-winged pitta remains the top migratory collider reported to the hotline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>However, native birds die from building collisions throughout the year despite the common belief that they have adapted to Singapore\u2019s urban landscape, she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Just a week into 2026, the hotline has received reports of species including the peregrine falcon, which have been spotted locally since 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>More notably, it was also the first of its subspecies in 86 years, with the last specimen collected in 1940.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/bird-deaths-hotline-record-reports-building-collisions-window-strikes-5837836\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHANGES IN SPECIES TRENDS The hotline has also begun collecting additional data, such as the direction of impact, to better understand collision patterns. It has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--MwQ9fPCj--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/01\/08\/untitled-design-2.png?itok=sW2HJYN-","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12830,7126,15482,9906,15480,15481,1952,10722],"class_list":["post-26756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-bird","tag-building","tag-collisions","tag-deaths","tag-hotline","tag-logs","tag-record","tag-reports","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}