{"id":15344,"date":"2011-03-23T14:37:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T06:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=15344"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:42:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:42:06","slug":"little-egrets-leg-tapping-foraging-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2011\/03\/23\/little-egrets-leg-tapping-foraging-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Egret\u2019s leg-tapping foraging strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/EgretL-foot-tap-GeoffLima.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/EgretL-foot-tap-GeoffLima.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"EgretL-foot tap [GeoffLim]a\" width=\"290\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On 7th March 2011, <strong>Geoff Lim<\/strong> sent in an image of the Little Egret (<em>Egretta garzetta<\/em>) he documented in a drain along Jalan Todak, off Upper Thomson Road. \u201cWhat&#8217;s amazing is that this is behind a row of shop houses in a very urbanised part of Singapore and it appeared oblivious to the people passing by. The bird was tapping the waters with one foot as it hunts for fish and small aquatic creatures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two earlier posts (with video clips) on this foot-tapping foraging strategy can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2011\/02\/10\/little-egret-foot-tapping\/#more\">HERE<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2011\/02\/23\/little-egret-\u2013-more-foot-tapping\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geoff Lim <\/strong><br \/>\nSingapore<br \/>\nMarch 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 7th March 2011, Geoff Lim sent in an image of the Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) he documented in a drain along Jalan Todak, off Upper Thomson Road. \u201cWhat&#8217;s amazing is that this is behind a row of shop houses in a very urbanised part of Singapore and it appeared oblivious to the people passing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":15346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15344"}],"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=15344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}