{"id":49599,"date":"2017-03-25T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T16:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=49599"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:13:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:13:03","slug":"white-throated-kingfisher-swallowing-a-crab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2017\/03\/25\/white-throated-kingfisher-swallowing-a-crab\/","title":{"rendered":"White-throated Kingfisher swallowing a crab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Raymond Cheng<\/strong><\/strong>\u2019s image of a White-throated Kingfisher (<em>Halcyon smyrnensis<\/em>) swallowing a crab is interesting in that the prey\u2019s exoskeleton will be compacted in the crop to be eventually discarded as an unusually large <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2012\/03\/08\/common-kingfisher-casting-a-pellet\/\">pellet<\/a>. It would make an interesting study should someone is patient enough to wait until the pellet is cast, collects it and examine the contents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/KfisherWT-crab-RaymondCheng.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49600\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/KfisherWT-crab-RaymondCheng.jpg\" alt=\"K&#039;fisherWT-crab [RaymondCheng]\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/KfisherWT-crab-RaymondCheng.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/KfisherWT-crab-RaymondCheng-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crabs, especially small ones, are regularly eaten by birds, including kingfishers <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2012\/03\/11\/collared-kingfisher-caught-a-vinegar-crab\/\">LINK<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Bigger crabs are usually taken by kingfishers like <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2008\/11\/08\/collared-kingfisher-handling-a-crab\/\">Collared Kingfisher&#8221;<\/a> (<em>Todiramphus chloris<\/em>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2009\/09\/23\/ruddy-kingfisher-eats-one-legged-crab\/\">Ruddy Kingfisher<\/a> (<em>Halcyon coromanda<\/em>). These crabs are bashed against the perch and tossed in the air to reposition it before swallowing, shell and all.<\/p>\n<p>After the meal the kingfisher will cast a white pellet before eating again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Raymond Cheng<\/strong><br \/>\nSingapore<br \/>\n2nd March 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Cheng\u2019s image of a White-throated Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis) swallowing a crab is interesting in that the prey\u2019s exoskeleton will be compacted in the crop to be eventually discarded as an unusually large pellet. It would make an interesting study should someone is patient enough to wait until the pellet is cast, collects it and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":49600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,77,75],"tags":[265],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49599"}],"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=49599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}