{"id":40400,"date":"2015-08-22T09:16:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T01:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=40400"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:15:12","slug":"blue-crowned-hanging-parrot-eats-alexandra-palm-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2015\/08\/22\/blue-crowned-hanging-parrot-eats-alexandra-palm-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue-crowned Hanging-parrot eats Alexandra Palm flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One evening in May 2015, a strange sound caused me to rush outside into my garden. There, clinging around the whitish inflorescence branches of one of my Alexandra palms (<em>Archontophoenix alexandrae<\/em>) was a Blue-crowned Hanging-parrot (<em>Loriculus galgulus<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The hanging-parrot was plucking and eating the whitish flowers for their nectar. <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"590\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rGrhqEpvsvU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to Collar (1997), the food of  this hanging-parrot includes flowers of <em>Erythrina<\/em> and Durian (D<em>urio zibethinus<\/em>). Wells (1999) similarly includes flowers of <em>Erythrina<\/em> spp., taken \u201capparently for nectar but this has not been proven in the field.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Well, the attached video clip proves beyond a doubt that the Blue-crowned Hanging-parrot does take flowers of the Alexandra Palm for their nectar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YC Wee<\/strong><br \/>\nSingapore<br \/>\nAugust 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<br \/>\n1.<\/strong> Collar, N. J. 1997. Family Columbidae Psittacidae (parrots). In: del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott &#038; J. Sargatal (eds.), Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 4. Sandgrouse to Cuckoos. Lynx Editions, Barcelona. Pp. 280-477.<br \/>\n<strong>2.<\/strong> Wells, D.R., 1999. The birds of the Thai-Malay Peninsular. Vol. I, Non-passerines. Academic Press, London. 648 pp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One evening in May 2015, a strange sound caused me to rush outside into my garden. There, clinging around the whitish inflorescence branches of one of my Alexandra palms (Archontophoenix alexandrae) was a Blue-crowned Hanging-parrot (Loriculus galgulus). The hanging-parrot was plucking and eating the whitish flowers for their nectar. According to Collar (1997), the food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,98],"tags":[219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40400"}],"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=40400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}