My Contributions

Selected publications

Tan, Y. Y. & Sin, Y. C. K. (2022). Biodiversity Record: First specimen of the Eurasian sparrowhawk from Singapore. Nature in Singapore, 15, e2022141.

Sin, Y. C. K., Eaton, J. A., Hutchinson, R. O., & Rheindt, F. E. (2022). Re-assessing species limits in a morphologically cryptic Australasian kingfisher lineage (Coraciiformes: Halcyonidae) using bioacoustic data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 136(4), 489-505.

Sin, Y. C. K., Narayanswamy, R., Ng, D., Chia, S., Ng, E., & Kennewell, M. (2022). Beyond the pandemic: gems from Singapore in 2020-2021. BirdingASIA, 37, 101-108.

Tony, J. A., Ahmad Sah, H. H., Sin, Y. C. K., Movin, N., Berman, L., Grafe, T. U., & Rheindt, F. E. (2022). Birding in Brunei: Borneo’s hidden gem. BirdingASIA, 37, 43-56.

Sin, Y. C. K., Kristensen, N. P., Gwee, C. Y., Chisholm, R. A., & Rheindt, F. E. (2022). Bird diversity on shelf islands does not benefit from recent land‐bridge connections. Journal of Biogeography, 49(1), 189-200.

Berman, L. M., Sin, Y. C. K. & Rheindt, F. E. (2021). Overturning more than a century of mistaken notions on the plumage of sub-adult Greater Racket-tailed Drongo Dicrurus paradiseus. Journal of Asian Ornithology, 37, 44-47.

Sin, Y. C. K., Yap, F., Kennewell, M. & White, R. (2021). The first records of Common Swift Apus apus in Singapore, with notes on their identification. BirdingASIA, 35, 114-116.

Loong, S., Sin, Y. C. K., Johns, P., Plowden, T., Yong, D. L., Lee, J. & Jain, A. (2021). Nest predation by Oriental Pied Hornbills Anthracoceros albirostris in urban Singapore. BirdingASIA, 35, 86-91.

Sin, Y. C. K., Ng, D, Kennewell, M. (2020). An influx of vagrants to Southeast Asia — winter of 2019/2020. BirdingASIA, 33, 142-147.

Chia, A., Yong, D. L., Lim, K. C., Nyanasengeran, M., Sin, Y. C. K., Lim, K. K., & Yeo, S. B. (2019). First confirmed breeding record of Plume-toed Swiftlet Collocalia affinis in Singapore. BirdingASIA, 31, 85-87.

Photo and Audio Contributions

Brown-throated Sunbird. [Journal Cover: Journal of Biogeography Volume 49, accompanying the manuscript “Bird diversity on shelf islands does not benefit from recent land-bridge connections”]

Domestic Chicken. [News Media: Handwerk, B. (2023). Why Chickens Need to Stop Breeding With Their Wild Cousins. Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 03 August 2023 from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/asias-red-junglefowl-are-threatened-by-interbreeding-with-free-range-domestic-chickens-180981473/%5D. More links where my photograph has been featured can be found from https://plos.altmetric.com/details/141533157.

Straw-headed Bulbul. [News Media: Emont, J. (2023). A Skyscraper-Packed City Has Become an Unlikely Oasis—for an Endangered Songbird. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 March 2023 from https://www.wsj.com/articles/asian-songbird-singapore-nature-straw-headed-bulbul-11674228814%5D

Audio recordings of Straw-headed Bulbul [News Media: Emont, J. (2023). A Skyscraper-Packed City Has Become an Unlikely Oasis—for an Endangered Songbird. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 March 2023 from https://www.wsj.com/articles/asian-songbird-singapore-nature-straw-headed-bulbul-11674228814%5D

White-rumped Shama. [Conservation Report: Shukhova, S., Chng, S. C. L., Lee, J. G. H. & Jeggo, D. (2021). The IUCN SSC Asian Songbird Trade Specialist Group. A brief report on its first four years: 2017-2020. The IUCN SSC Asian Songbird Trade Specialist Group (ASTSG), Singapore.]

Mangrove Pitta. [Photo Gallery: Singapore Birds on the Brink @ VivoCity Singapore, 16 – 23 August 2019, Mapletree Investments.]

Plume-toed Swiftlet. [Photo Gallery: Singapore Birds on the Brink @ VivoCity Singapore, 16 – 23 August 2019, Mapletree Investments.]

White-rumped Shama. [Publication: Rheindt, F. E., Baveja, P., Ferasyi, T. R., Nurza, A., Rosa, T. S., Haminuddin, Ramadhan, R. & Gwee, C. Y. (2019). The extinction-in-progress in the wild of the Barusan Shama Copsychus (malabaricus) melanurus. Forktail, 35, 30-37.]

House Crow. [Publication: Tan, H. Z., Low, G. W., Sadanandan, K. R. & Rheindt, F. E. (2020) Population assessment of the house crow, Corvus splendens, in Singapore. Malayan Nature Journal, 72(2), 133-142.]

Scaly-crowned Babbler. [Publication: Rheindt, F. E., Gwee, C. Y., Baveja, P., Ferasyi, T. R., Nurza, A., & Rosa, T. S. (2020). A taxonomic and conservation re-appraisal of all the birds on the island of Nias. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 68, 496-528.]

Rufous-browed Flycatcher. [Publication: Hung, L. M., Ng, E. Y. X., Wu, S., Tung, D. Q., Tien, B. D., Son, L. V., Sun, H & Rheindt, F. E. (2020). Bidoup Nui Ba National Park and the Dalat Plateau, Vietnam: an extraordinary South-East Asian hotspot of endemism. BirdingASIA, 35, 84-109.]

Chinese Blue Flycatcher. [Publication: Roddis & Loseby. (2020). From the field. BirdingASIA, 34, 131-142.]

Changeable Hawk-eagle. [News Media: Thigarajan, S. (2021). 33-hectare Dover forest to be cleared for housing projects after being left untouched for over 40 years. Mothership. Retrieved 26 August 2021 from https://mothership.sg/2021/01/dover-forest-residential-development/%5D

Sangkar White-eye. [NGO Website: IUCN SSC Asian Songbird Trade Specialist Group. (2021). Genetic Research. IUCN SSC Asian Songbird Trade Specialist Group. Retrieved 26 August 2021 from https://www.asiansongbirdtradesg.com/genetic-research%5D

White-rumped Shama. [NGO Website: IUCN SSC Asian Songbird Trade Specialist Group. (2021). Genetic Research. IUCN SSC Asian Songbird Trade Specialist Group. Retrieved 26 August 2021 from https://www.asiansongbirdtradesg.com/genetic-research%5D

Hill Blue Flycatcher. [Social Media Feature: NUS Avian Evolution Lab [@avianevo]. Header photo. Twitter. Retrieved 15 November 2021 from https://twitter.com/avianevo%5D

Audio recordings of Straw-headed Bulbul and Greater Green Leafbird. [Exhibit: Singing Forest @ Jurong Bird Park, 1 – 30 June 2019, Wildlife Reserves Singapore. Photo credits – Mandai Wildlife Group]

Rainbow Bee-eater. [Publication: Roddis & Loseby. (2021). From the field. BirdingASIA, 36, 121-128. This photo presents the first record of this species in Brunei.]

Audio recordings of Black-naped Oriole. [Video: A Bird’s Eyes View series by Shentonista with support from the Singapore Tourism Board]

White-rumped Shama and White-crowned Shama. [Wu, M. Y., Lau, C. J., Ng, E. Y. X., Baveja, P., Gwee, C. Y., Sadanandan, K., … & Rheindt, F. E. (2022). Genomes from historic DNA unveil massive hidden extinction and terminal endangerment in a tropical Asian songbird radiation. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(9), msac189.]

Media Features

I was featured in episode 17, Nature, of MindBlown! that aired on Okto on 28 December 2021. I discussed raptor migration in Southeast Asia and their use of thermals to aid their passage. The full episode can be watched at https://www.mewatch.sg/watch/Mind-Blown-E17-Nature-256396.

Brahminy Kite: My photos were featured on episode 17, Nature, of MindBlown! that aired on Okto on 28 December 2021. The full episode can be watched at https://www.mewatch.sg/watch/Mind-Blown-E17-Nature-256396.

Peregrine Falcon and White-bellied Sea Eagle: My photos were featured on episode 17, Nature, of MindBlown! that aired on Okto on 28 December 2021. The full episode can be watched at https://www.mewatch.sg/watch/Mind-Blown-E17-Nature-256396.

Bird Society of Singapore (formerly Singapore Birds Project)

Sin, Y.C.K. & Ng, D. (2021). Singapore Birds Database: A Digital Museum of Local Bird Information. Singapore Birds Project. Retrieved 15 November 2021 from singaporebirds.com. (Link)