{"id":12183,"date":"2010-08-16T00:02:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T16:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/besgroup.talfrynature.com\/?p=12183"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:32:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:32:46","slug":"scavenging-birds-of-perth-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2010\/08\/16\/scavenging-birds-of-perth-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Scavenging birds of Perth, Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100816-scavengers-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100816-scavengers-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"100816 scavengers - 1\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100816-scavengers-1.jpg 290w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100816-scavengers-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100816-scavengers-1-266x266.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100816-scavengers-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100816-scavengers-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"100816 scavengers - 2\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100816-scavengers-2.jpg 290w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100816-scavengers-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here in Singapore, we get the ubiquitous Rock Pigeon (<em>Columba livia<\/em>), the Javan Myna (<em>Acridotheres javanicus<\/em>) and the House Crow (<em>Corvus splendens<\/em>) scavenging leftover food in open-air hawker centres and garbage dumps. Over in <a href=\"http:\/\/besgroup.talfrynature.com\/2006\/07\/13\/oriental-pied-hornbills-in-pangkor-island-peninsular-malaysia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pangkor Island<\/a> in nearby Malaysia, the Oriental Pied Hornbills (<em>Anthracoceros albirostris<\/em>) are commonly found in touristy areas where they are fed with leftover food. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100816-scavengers-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/100816-scavengers-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"100816 scavengers - 3\" width=\"290\" height=\"177\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Perth, Australia, <strong>Johnny Wee<\/strong> documented another set of birds that thrive on leftover food in open-air food courts. The Silvereye (<em>Zosterops lateralis<\/em>) (above left), a common Australian garden bird and the wren (above right), take leftover cakes. On the other hand the New Holland Honeyeater (<em>Phylidonyris novaehollandiae<\/em>) which takes nectar under natural conditions, scavenge leftover maple syrup (left).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Singapore, we get the ubiquitous Rock Pigeon (Columba livia), the Javan Myna (Acridotheres javanicus) and the House Crow (Corvus splendens) scavenging leftover food in open-air hawker centres and garbage dumps. Over in Pangkor Island in nearby Malaysia, the Oriental Pied Hornbills (Anthracoceros albirostris) are commonly found in touristy areas where they are fed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":16243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183"}],"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=12183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}