{"id":40633,"date":"2015-09-08T10:29:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T02:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=40633"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:15:09","slug":"nesting-bulbul-4-pre-feeding-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2015\/09\/08\/nesting-bulbul-4-pre-feeding-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Nesting bulbul: 4. Pre-feeding behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-YVB-eyeing-me-when-near-nest-wyc-2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-YVB-eyeing-me-when-near-nest-wyc-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"4 YVB eyeing me when near nest [wyc] - 2\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-YVB-eyeing-me-when-near-nest-wyc-2.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-YVB-eyeing-me-when-near-nest-wyc-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The adult Yellow-vented Bulbuls (<em>Pycnonotus goiavie<\/em>r) were always careful when flying into the nest to feed the chick <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2015\/07\/16\/nesting-bulbul-2-adult-feeding-2-days-old-chick\/\">HERE<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2015\/07\/28\/nesting-bulbul-3-adult-feeding-5-days-old-chick\/\">HERE<\/a>. They do not fly in directly but land some distance away. <\/p>\n<p>One favourite spot when arriving after foraging was the Golden Penda tree (<em>Xanthostemon chrysanthus<\/em>) growing along the road fronting the house, some10 metres away from the nest. Alone or with its mate, the adult would sometimes call loudly \u2013 was it contact or warning call? Once it was safe to fly to the nest, it would first fly to a nearer branch (top). <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"590\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XmIzeoEpDRM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There it would look around and called out loudly should there be danger around \u2013 someone in the garden or one or more \u2018threatening\u2019 birds were nearby. Danger calls were accompanied with raised crest.<\/p>\n<p>Only when it was safe to do so would it fly into the nest and feed the chick. Sometimes it flew silently in, other times it gave out calls, maybe to signal to the chick in the nest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YC Wee<\/strong><br \/>\nSingapore<br \/>\nAugust 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The adult Yellow-vented Bulbuls (Pycnonotus goiavier) were always careful when flying into the nest to feed the chick HERE and HERE. They do not fly in directly but land some distance away. One favourite spot when arriving after foraging was the Golden Penda tree (Xanthostemon chrysanthus) growing along the road fronting the house, some10 metres [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":40634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,17,98],"tags":[97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40633"}],"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=40633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}