{"id":27937,"date":"2026-01-12T18:21:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=27937"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:21:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:21:37","slug":"himalayan-vulture-stuns-in-eastern-singapore-after-rare-sightings-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=27937","title":{"rendered":"Himalayan vulture stuns in eastern Singapore after rare sightings in the west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"314\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fjohn.singapore%2Fvideos%2F1409554847245332%2F%3Fidorvanity%3D5202818212&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/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 <em>The Straits Times<\/em> 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<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malaymail.com\/news\/singapore\/2026\/01\/12\/himalayan-vulture-stuns-in-eastern-singapore-after-rare-sightings-in-the-west\/205133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27937","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=27937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}