{"id":47231,"date":"2026-04-25T06:25:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=47231"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:25:55","slug":"what-lies-behind-singapores-crow-problem-for-one-thing-maybe-the-tray-return-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=47231","title":{"rendered":"What lies behind Singapore\u2019s crow problem? For one thing, maybe the tray return scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In some cases, they can also live for up to 30 years. \u201cIt depends on their environment,\u201d he added. \u201cBut here, crows are healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, the species of crows ruffling feathers here \u2014 that thrives on human food, adapts quickly to urban life and is known to be aggressive, especially when nesting \u2014 is not native to Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>They are house crows, an invasive species that \u201ccauses damage to our ecosystem\u201d, said Liu, whose job is to help protect Singapore\u2019s natural habitats and biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey prey on the eggs of our native birds. \u2026 They outcompete our native wildlife for food and nesting sites,\u201d he elucidated, citing a risk to the critically endangered straw-headed bulbul, \u201cone of the most precious birds we have\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to deal with the situation right now. \u2026 The (crow) population is huge, and if it grows any larger, there\u2019ll definitely be negative impacts (on) our ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/cna-insider\/singapore-crows-population-growth-tray-return-scheme-nparks-shooting-6075866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some cases, they can also live for up to 30 years. \u201cIt depends on their environment,\u201d he added. \u201cBut here, crows are healthy.\u201d The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s---qzxFz_s--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/04\/23\/picture0.jpg?itok=FdtEtKKa","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13004,5189,3914,2257,2785,209,21300],"class_list":["post-47231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-crow","tag-lies","tag-problem","tag-return","tag-scheme","tag-singapores","tag-tray","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47231","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=47231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}