{"id":28683,"date":"2012-08-28T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=28683"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:30:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:30:43","slug":"adult-pied-fantail-feeding-a-juvenile-rusty-breasted-cuckoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2012\/08\/28\/adult-pied-fantail-feeding-a-juvenile-rusty-breasted-cuckoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Pied Fantail feeding a juvenile Rusty-breasted Cuckoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FantailP-feed-CuckooRustyBr-JWee-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FantailP-feed-CuckooRustyBr-JWee-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"FantailP feed CuckooRustyBr [JWee] - 1\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FantailP-feed-CuckooRustyBr-JWee-1.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FantailP-feed-CuckooRustyBr-JWee-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Johnny Wee<\/strong>&#8216;s documented an adult Pied Fantail (<em>Rhipidura javanica<\/em>) feeding a much larger juvenile Rusty-breasted Cuckoo (<em>Cacomantis sepulcralis<\/em>) at Singapore&#8217;s Lorong Halus Wetland on 24th August 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FantailP-feed-CuckooRustyBr-JWee-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FantailP-feed-CuckooRustyBr-JWee-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"FantailP feed CuckooRustyBr [JWee] - 2\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FantailP-feed-CuckooRustyBr-JWee-2.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FantailP-feed-CuckooRustyBr-JWee-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Rusty-breasted Cuckoo, a brood parasite, is an uncommon resident. It parasitised the nests of a wide range of species <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2008\/10\/13\/pied-fantail-feeding-juvenile-cuckoo\/\">LINK<\/a>, most of which are small birds. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FantailP-feed-CuckooRustyBr-JWee-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FantailP-feed-CuckooRustyBr-JWee-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"FantailP feed CuckooRustyBr [JWee] - 3\" width=\"590\" height=\"442\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FantailP-feed-CuckooRustyBr-JWee-3.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FantailP-feed-CuckooRustyBr-JWee-3-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Encountering an adult foster parent feeding a much large chick can be a comical sight. But to the foster parents this this is no joke The adults need to work much harder to obtain food for a much larger hungry cuckoo chick or juvenile than to feed their own brood.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Johnny Wee<\/strong><br \/>\nSingapore<br \/>\nAugust 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Wee&#8216;s documented an adult Pied Fantail (Rhipidura javanica) feeding a much larger juvenile Rusty-breasted Cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis) at Singapore&#8217;s Lorong Halus Wetland on 24th August 2012. The Rusty-breasted Cuckoo, a brood parasite, is an uncommon resident. It parasitised the nests of a wide range of species LINK, most of which are small birds. Encountering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28683"}],"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=28683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}