{"id":49780,"date":"2017-05-15T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T16:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=49780"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:12:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:12:59","slug":"male-oriental-pied-hornbill-at-the-nesting-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2017\/05\/15\/male-oriental-pied-hornbill-at-the-nesting-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Oriental Pied Hornbill at the nesting hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis Oriental Pied Hornbill (<em>Anthracoceros albirostris<\/em>) nesting was recorded by me at Changi Village, Singapore many year back. Take note the food it brought home for its mate and chicks&#8230;\u201d wrote <strong>Jeremiah Loei<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"590\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y31RYO68jVA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This male hornbill regurgitated about 20 figs in less than a minute (above, below). These were inserted into the nesting cavity through the narrow opening of the sealed chamber. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49781\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49781\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/OPH-fig-JeremiahLoei.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49781\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/OPH-fig-JeremiahLoei.jpg\" alt=\"(screen grab)\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/OPH-fig-JeremiahLoei.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/OPH-fig-JeremiahLoei-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(screen grab)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After the figs came what looked like a larger piece of animal morsel that needed some effort to regurgitate. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49782\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49782\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/OPH-snail-JeremiahLoei.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49782\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/OPH-snail-JeremiahLoei.jpg\" alt=\"(screen grab)\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/OPH-snail-JeremiahLoei.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/OPH-snail-JeremiahLoei-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(screen grab)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A second visit by this male brought a snail, protein for the developing chick\/s no doubt (above).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNote the chicks poo shot out of the nesting hole in the video, hygiene starts young&#8230;\u201d added Jeremiah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeremiah Loei<\/strong><br \/>\nSingapore<br \/>\n17th March 2017<\/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>\u201cThis Oriental Pied Hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris) nesting was recorded by me at Changi Village, Singapore many year back. Take note the food it brought home for its mate and chicks&#8230;\u201d wrote Jeremiah Loei. This male hornbill regurgitated about 20 figs in less than a minute (above, below). These were inserted into the nesting cavity through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":49781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,59,10,17],"tags":[109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49780"}],"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=49780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}