{"id":11809,"date":"2010-06-28T00:04:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T16:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/besgroup.talfrynature.com\/?p=11809"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:32:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:32:49","slug":"clothes-hanger-and-crows-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2010\/06\/28\/clothes-hanger-and-crows-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"Clothes hanger and crow\u2019s nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100628-crow-nest-t1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100628-crow-nest-t1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"100628 crow-nest t1\" width=\"183\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100628-crow-nest-t1.jpg 183w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100628-crow-nest-t1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100628-crow-nest-t2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100628-crow-nest-t2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"100628 crow-nest t2\" width=\"183\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100628-crow-nest-t2.jpg 183w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100628-crow-nest-t2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100628-crow-nest-t3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100628-crow-nest-t3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"100628 crow-nest t3\" width=\"183\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100628-crow-nest-t3.jpg 183w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100628-crow-nest-t3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sun Chong Hong<\/strong> came across a crow\u2019s nest in Bishan, Singapore on 8th February 2010. The nest had a bluish clothes hanger incorporated in it together with some steel wires pinched from a nearby construction site (above left). Later the hanger was somehow dislodged and found lying on the ground under the nest (above centre). On 24th June the old hanger had apparently been recycled in a new nest built in a nearby tree (above right).<\/p>\n<p>An earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2007\/03\/29\/things-crows-use-as-nesting-materials\/\">post<\/a> reports Jungle Crows (<em>Corvus macrorhynchos<\/em>) in Japan using clothes hangers, not just one but many, to build their nests.<\/p>\n<p>Local House Crows (<em>Corvus splendens<\/em>) regularly pick up pieces of wire and plastic to construct their <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2006\/01\/24\/house-crows%E2%80%99-nests\/\">nests<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun Chong Hong came across a crow\u2019s nest in Bishan, Singapore on 8th February 2010. The nest had a bluish clothes hanger incorporated in it together with some steel wires pinched from a nearby construction site (above left). Later the hanger was somehow dislodged and found lying on the ground under the nest (above centre). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":16581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}