{"id":41303,"date":"2015-09-01T10:04:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T02:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=41303"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:15:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:15:11","slug":"grey-rumped-treeswift-feeding-chick-on-video-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2015\/09\/01\/grey-rumped-treeswift-feeding-chick-on-video-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Grey-rumped Treeswift feeding chick \u2013 on video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TreeswiftGR-ch-by-nest-KumchunChan-b.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TreeswiftGR-ch-by-nest-KumchunChan-b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"TreeswiftGR ch by nest [KumchunChan] b\" width=\"590\" height=\"388\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TreeswiftGR-ch-by-nest-KumchunChan-b.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TreeswiftGR-ch-by-nest-KumchunChan-b-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Johnny Wee<\/strong>\u2019s earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2015\/08\/25\/grey-rumped-treeswift-feeding-chick-just-before-fledging\/\">account<\/a> showed in vivid details an adult female Grey-rumped Treeswift (<em>Hemiprocne longipennis<\/em>) feeding a large chick as they both perched side by side on a branch. <\/p>\n<p>What the series of still images is unable to show is how the feeding is initiated. And this is where <strong>Kumchun Chan<\/strong>\u2019s video clip complements the images &#8211; see below. <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"590\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Trxyx8b-no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to Chantler (2000), \u201cThe feeding process is preceded, or initiated, by sibilant screaming (less shrill than that of the adults) and waving of the open bill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"590\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HSsO8fkulxY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The second video (above) shows the chick alone by the nest making begging cries to the adult (probably nearby) for food and testing its wings to prepare for fledging.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kumchun Chan<\/strong><br \/>\nSingapore<br \/>\nSeptember 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\nChantler, P. (2000). Swifts. A guide to the swifts and treeswifts of the world. New Haven &#038; London: Yale University Press. 272 pp. (2nd ed.)<\/p>\n<p>This post is a cooperative effort between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/394479540610099\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birds, Insects N Creatures Of Asia<\/a> and BESG to bring the study of birds and their behavior through photography and videography to a wider audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Wee\u2019s earlier account showed in vivid details an adult female Grey-rumped Treeswift (Hemiprocne longipennis) feeding a large chick as they both perched side by side on a branch. What the series of still images is unable to show is how the feeding is initiated. And this is where Kumchun Chan\u2019s video clip complements the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":41304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,98],"tags":[380],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41303"}],"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=41303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}