{"id":25078,"date":"2012-03-17T21:52:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T13:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=25078"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:25:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:25:11","slug":"sunbird-nesting-in-my-underwear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2012\/03\/17\/sunbird-nesting-in-my-underwear\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunbird nesting in my underwear&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sunbird-nesting-underwear-LimTingHan-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sunbird-nesting-underwear-LimTingHan-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sunbird nesting-underwear [LimTingHan ] - 1\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sunbird-nesting-underwear-LimTingHan-1.jpg 290w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sunbird-nesting-underwear-LimTingHan-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sunbird-nesting-underwear-LimTingHan-1-266x266.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sunbird-nesting-underwear-LimTingHan-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sunbird-nesting-underwear-LimTingHan-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sunbird nesting-underwear [LimTingHan ] - 2\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sunbird-nesting-underwear-LimTingHan-2.jpg 290w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sunbird-nesting-underwear-LimTingHan-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lim Ting Han<\/strong> sent in images of a pair of Olive-backed Sunbirds (<em>Nectarinia jugularis<\/em>) building their nest in his underwear hanging out to dry (above). Obviously he is unable to make use of that piece of clothing for some time now.<\/p>\n<p>The image below (left) shows the female sunbird sitting in her nest snugly tucked inside his underwear. That on the right shows two eggs in the nest. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SunbirdOB-nest-underwear-LimTingHan-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SunbirdOB-nest-underwear-LimTingHan-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"SunbirdOB-nest-underwear [LimTingHan] - 2\" width=\"290\" height=\"218\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25129\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sunbird-nesting-underwear-LimTingHan-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sunbird-nesting-underwear-LimTingHan-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sunbird nesting-underwear [LimTingHan ] - 5\" width=\"290\" height=\"218\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25081\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the first time we have heard of such a nesting location. We did report of Yellow-vented Bulbuls (<em>Pycnonotus goiavier<\/em>) making their nests in odd places like in a bunch of artificial flowers <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2007\/04\/13\/yellow-vented-bulbul-nesting-in-an-artificial-plant\/\">LINK<\/a>. Or of the Olive-backed Sunbirds (<em>Cinnyris jugularis<\/em>) building their nest around a light bulb <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2010\/05\/11\/olive-backed-sunbird-builds-nest-around-a-light-bulb\/\">LINK<\/a>, or even around various parts of a bicycle <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2011\/08\/26\/olive-backed-sunbirds-affinity-for-bicycles\/\">LINK<\/a>. But in someone&#8217;s underwear?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lim Ting Han<\/strong><br \/>\nSingapore<br \/>\nMarch 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lim Ting Han sent in images of a pair of Olive-backed Sunbirds (Nectarinia jugularis) building their nest in his underwear hanging out to dry (above). Obviously he is unable to make use of that piece of clothing for some time now. The image below (left) shows the female sunbird sitting in her nest snugly tucked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":25079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,82],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25078"}],"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=25078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}