{"id":49441,"date":"2017-03-08T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=49441"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:13:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:13:04","slug":"ruby-cheeked-sunbird-frugivory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2017\/03\/08\/ruby-cheeked-sunbird-frugivory\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby-cheeked Sunbird &#8211; frugivory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI observed another episode of frugivory by Ruby-cheeked Sunbirds (<em>Chalcoparia singalensis interposita<\/em>) today. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost literature supports insect and nectar feeding for this sunbird but I have observed fruit feeding more often than nectar feeding (insects are most common). In the past I have seen them feeding on the fruit of the Blue Mahang (<em>Macaranga heynei<\/em>, formerly known as <em>M. javanica<\/em>), small berries and also taking pieces of ficus fruit (Amar-Singh, 2010).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SunbirdRCH-AmarSingh-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49442\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SunbirdRCH-AmarSingh-1.jpg\" alt=\"SunbirdRCH [AmarSingh] 1\" width=\"590\" height=\"606\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SunbirdRCH-AmarSingh-1.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SunbirdRCH-AmarSingh-1-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I saw both an adult male (above) and an adult female (Amar-Singh, 2010) feed on the small fruit of a tree. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SunbirdRCH-AmarSingh-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49443\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SunbirdRCH-AmarSingh-2.jpg\" alt=\"SunbirdRCH [AmarSingh] 2\" width=\"590\" height=\"389\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SunbirdRCH-AmarSingh-2.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SunbirdRCH-AmarSingh-2-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tree was full of many creepers but the fruit was coming from inflorescences from the stem of the tree. Post 2 is a poor image of the bird collecting fruit but better illustrates the fruit and flowers (no identification of tree as yet).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\nAmar-Singh HSS (2010). Feeding habits and behaviour of the Ruby-cheeked Sunbird Chalcoparia singalensis in Perak, Malaysia. BirdingASIA 14 (2010): 46\u201351.<\/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 \/>\n13th February 2017<\/p>\n<p>Location: Ulu Kinta Forest Reserve, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia<br \/>\nHabitat: Previously logged forest with secondary growth and some primary forest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI observed another episode of frugivory by Ruby-cheeked Sunbirds (Chalcoparia singalensis interposita) today. \u201cMost literature supports insect and nectar feeding for this sunbird but I have observed fruit feeding more often than nectar feeding (insects are most common). In the past I have seen them feeding on the fruit of the Blue Mahang (Macaranga heynei, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":49442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,82],"tags":[455],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49441"}],"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=49441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}