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  Records of birds in the Sembawang Park area have been kept since 1990. Most of the vegetation in the roads near the Park is garden vegetation, similar to that of the Park. However, at one point there is a thicker patch of scrub, the only place where Striped Tit-Babblers and Pied Fantail have been seen in the area. At the Park the beach that stretches along in front of the old Kampong Wak Hassan is muddy at low tides and supports the Common Sandpiper and the Striated Heron. In the past a patch of mangroves and a couple of prawn ponds lay next to the Kampong, supporting mangrove birds like Ashy Tailorbirds. These moved into the road and garden areas in 1999, when the prawn ponds were filled in, and stayed about two years, but have now disappeared.
Birds of the area are listed in two sections - the birds in the gardens and roads near the Park, and the birds in the Park including the Wak Hassan Beach. Amongst the list of over 80 species, there are only about 40 species, with 5 species of Winter Visitors, that are regularly around in the area, maintaining continuing numbers, whether high or low.

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Nature Society (Singapore) organizes a Singapore-wide Annual Bird Census in March each year, and since 1993 a census for Sembawang Park has been carried out on the census day. The March survey picks up the numbers of migrant birds, as well as residents. Since 2001 there is now a Mid-year Bird Census in July, which picks up resident numbers only. Numbers of Birds have been declining slightly in Sembawang Park since 2000. This may well be because the area on the other side of Sembawang Road was extensively cleared for building works and is now devoid of trees. Birds that used to move between the Jalan Inggu/Andrews Avenue area and the Park via the trees inbetween, may now remain in their own area.

Annual Bird Census
(annually in March - when migrants are still around)

Year of Census
No. of Species
No. of Birds

1993
27
378
1994
26
304
1995
31
334
1996
38
428
1997
36
417
1998
27
325
1999
37
329
2000
40
405
2001
29
235
2002
28
194

Mid-Year Bird Census (annually in July - resident birds only)

Year of Census
No. of Species
No. of Birds

2001
32
239
2002
30
254