{"id":38071,"date":"2014-11-07T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=38071"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:27:32","slug":"everetts-white-eye-feeding-on-poikilospermum-nectar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2014\/11\/07\/everetts-white-eye-feeding-on-poikilospermum-nectar\/","title":{"rendered":"Everett&#8217;s White-eye feeding on <em>Poikilospermum<\/em> nectar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhiteEyeEv-Poikilospermum-suaveolens-AmarSingh-2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhiteEyeEv-Poikilospermum-suaveolens-AmarSingh-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WhiteEyeEv-Poikilospermum suaveolens [AmarSingh] - 2\" width=\"590\" height=\"445\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhiteEyeEv-Poikilospermum-suaveolens-AmarSingh-2.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhiteEyeEv-Poikilospermum-suaveolens-AmarSingh-2-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The epiphytic climber <em>Poikilospermum suaveolens<\/em> (Family: Urticaceae) is favourite of many birds, see: <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2012\/06\/07\/poikilospermum-suaveolens-urticaceae-and-birds\/\">LINK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the past I have seen three birds feed on (eat) the flowers to get to the nectar:<\/p>\n<p>1. Chestnut-capped Laughingthrush (<em>Garrulax mitratus<\/em>) <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2012\/06\/11\/chestnut-capped-laughingthrush-and-poikilospermum-suaveolens\/\">LINK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2. Brown-throated Sunbird (<em>Anthreptes malacensis<\/em>) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borneobirdimages.com\/bird\/brown-throated_sunbird\/6695\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LINK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3. Streaked Spiderhunters (<em>Arachnothera magna<\/em>) <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2014\/05\/14\/streaked-spiderhunter-feeding-on-flowers-of-poikilospermum-suaveolens\/\">LINK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhiteEyeEv-Poikilospermum-suaveolens-AmarSingh-11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhiteEyeEv-Poikilospermum-suaveolens-AmarSingh-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WhiteEyeEv-Poikilospermum suaveolens [AmarSingh] - 1\" width=\"540\" height=\"589\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhiteEyeEv-Poikilospermum-suaveolens-AmarSingh-11.jpg 540w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhiteEyeEv-Poikilospermum-suaveolens-AmarSingh-11-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today at this [Cameron Highlands] hill station I saw the Everett&#8217;s White-eye doing doing the same (above). A small flock of 12-15 eating the flowers.&#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, Perak, Malaysia<br \/>\n1st October 2014<\/p>\n<p>Location: 1,600m ASL, Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia<br \/>\nHabitat: Trail through mixed secondary and primary forest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The epiphytic climber Poikilospermum suaveolens (Family: Urticaceae) is favourite of many birds, see: LINK. &#8220;In the past I have seen three birds feed on (eat) the flowers to get to the nectar: 1. Chestnut-capped Laughingthrush (Garrulax mitratus) LINK. 2. Brown-throated Sunbird (Anthreptes malacensis) LINK. 3. Streaked Spiderhunters (Arachnothera magna) LINK. &#8220;Today at this [Cameron Highlands] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":38072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38071"}],"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=38071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}