{"id":34503,"date":"2013-11-06T17:20:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T09:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=34503"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:23:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:23:10","slug":"juvenile-white-bellied-sea-eagle-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2013\/11\/06\/juvenile-white-bellied-sea-eagle-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile White-bellied Sea-Eagle in flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WBSE-jv-AmarSingh-2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WBSE-jv-AmarSingh-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WBSE jv [AmarSingh] - 2\" width=\"590\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WBSE-jv-AmarSingh-2.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WBSE-jv-AmarSingh-2-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have taken to bringing my equipment in my backpack when we go out cycling. These were taken at 7.30am when light was still low. My wife and I had stopped to watch some egrets feeding in a large fish breeding pond when we spotted this eagle coming in (above, below).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WBSE-jv-AmarSingh-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WBSE-jv-AmarSingh-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WBSE jv [AmarSingh] - 1\" width=\"590\" height=\"366\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WBSE-jv-AmarSingh-1.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WBSE-jv-AmarSingh-1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are two locations in the city, both limestone hills with ex-mining pools used for fish farming, where White-bellied Sea-Eagle (<em>Haliaeetus leucogaster<\/em>) breed. This bird had come in for the fish the egrets were catching.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"590\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iFoTHbN-nZo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately this juvenile (first year) was first harassed by a Jungle Crow. Partly captured on video (handheld, above). I have seen this previously and posted some images on OBI, see this post at BESG: <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2009\/12\/11\/white-bellied-sea-eagle-in-battling-a-crow\/\">LINK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WBSE-ad-AmarSingh-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WBSE-ad-AmarSingh-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WBSE ad [AmarSingh] - 4\" width=\"590\" height=\"455\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WBSE-ad-AmarSingh-4.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WBSE-ad-AmarSingh-4-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSubsequently an adult White-bellied Fish-Eagle that was on a tall pylon overlooking the pond also chased it away (above).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are two possibilities here. One, that it is time for this juvenile to leave and the adult is indicating this. Or else this juvenile has strayed into the feeding area of another adult\u2019s territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe juvenile swung round and then flew right over us to give some great views.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WBSE-jv-AmarSingh-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WBSE-jv-AmarSingh-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WBSE jv [AmarSingh] - 3\" width=\"590\" height=\"507\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WBSE-jv-AmarSingh-31.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WBSE-jv-AmarSingh-31-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The image above is a flight composite of the juvenile].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2010\/03\/11\/dato%E2%80%99-dr-amar-singh-hss-%E2%80%93-birdwatcher-extraordinarie\/\">Dato\u2019 Dr Amar-Singh HSS<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nIpoh City, Perak, Malaysia<br \/>\n28th October 2012<\/p>\n<p>Location: Tambun, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia<br \/>\nHabitat: Semi-urban location, limestone hills nearby with ex-mining pools<br \/>\nConditions: Early morning, out cycling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI have taken to bringing my equipment in my backpack when we go out cycling. These were taken at 7.30am when light was still low. My wife and I had stopped to watch some egrets feeding in a large fish breeding pond when we spotted this eagle coming in (above, below). \u201cThere are two locations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":34505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63],"tags":[224],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34503"}],"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=34503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}