Pin-tailed whydahs

Pin-tailed whydahs, male.
2023 Jun 2nd @ Pasir Ris Farmway 3 grassland.
Thanks to the first spotter Anders Tradit who shared on 25th May 2023 via FB Birds sighting group.
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Pin-tailed whydahs, male.
2023 Jun 2nd @ Pasir Ris Farmway 3 grassland.
It took us 8 days to decide to go down and have a look.
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Pin-tailed whydahs, male.
2023 Jun 2nd @ Pasir Ris Farmway 3 grassland.
Pictures of courtship was flooding the FB birds sighting group.
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Pin-tailed whydahs, male.
2023 Jun 2nd @ Pasir Ris Farmway 3 grassland.
The female look like Eurasian Tree Sparrow.
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Pin-tailed whydahs, male.
2023 Jun 2nd @ Pasir Ris Farmway 3 grassland.
Puff puff, very tiring trying to impress the female.
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Pin-tailed whydahs, male.
2023 Jun 2nd @ Pasir Ris Farmway 3 grassland.
So beautiful even without the courtship dance.
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I have done a video to share via You-tube here.

An experience that I would like to see again next year.

Pin-tailed whydahs, male.
2022 May 16th @ Changi, Aviation Park Road.
Based on Bird ecology study group by NUS in Jan 2019-
https://besgroup.org/2019/01/22/pin-tailed-whydah-mid-air-dance-in-slow-motion/
this bird is from South Africa’s Sahara Desert.
Most likely an escapee and has started breeding locally in Singapore.
Thanks to this that we are able to sight them. 
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Pin-tailed whydahs, male.
2022 May 16th @ Changi, Aviation Park Road.
The bird is very tiny, like the size of a sparrow and the tail is at least 3 times the size of its body that makes the bird so pretty.

Pin-tailed whydahs, male.
2022 May 16th @ Changi, Aviation Park Road.
A closer look at the tiny bird.

Pin-tailed whydahs, female.
2022 May 16th @ Changi, Aviation Park Road.
Unlike the male, the female look nothing interesting. 

Pin-tailed whydahs, female.
2022 May 16th @ Changi, Aviation Park Road.
We can easily mistaken it as the paddy field pipit.

Pin-tailed whydahs, male.
2022 May 16th @ Changi, Aviation Park Road.
Now we understand why this bird can forever stay under the hot sun, because they were from Sahara Desert. Unlike other birds, most of them would like to hide under the tree inside the leaves.