{"id":53260,"date":"2018-02-28T09:19:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T01:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=53260"},"modified":"2023-06-24T16:55:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T08:55:52","slug":"little-heron-comfort-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2018\/02\/28\/little-heron-comfort-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Heron &#8211; comfort behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HeronL-AmarSingh-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53261\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HeronL-AmarSingh-1.jpg\" alt=\"HeronL [AmarSingh]\" width=\"590\" height=\"485\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HeronL-AmarSingh-1.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HeronL-AmarSingh-1-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been a prolonged wet season and this was one of the few bright sunny mornings. This Little Heron (<em>Butorides striata javanica<\/em>) took the opportunity to get some warmth and dry out the wings. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HeronL-AmarSingh.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53262\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HeronL-AmarSingh.jpg\" alt=\"HeronL [AmarSingh]\" width=\"590\" height=\"544\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HeronL-AmarSingh.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HeronL-AmarSingh-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have seen Grey and Purple Herons hold their wings in this cupped fashion to dry out but not the Little Heron (top). Subsequently went on to preening, running feathers though the beak to clean them (above, below). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HeronL-AmarSingh-5.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53263\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HeronL-AmarSingh-5.jpg\" alt=\"HeronL [AmarSingh]\" width=\"290\" height=\"376\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HeronL-AmarSingh-5.jpg 290w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HeronL-AmarSingh-5-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HeronL-AmarSingh-4.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53264\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HeronL-AmarSingh-4.jpg\" alt=\"HeronL [AmarSingh]\" width=\"290\" height=\"379\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HeronL-AmarSingh-4.jpg 290w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HeronL-AmarSingh-4-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/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&#8217; Dr Amar-Singh HSS<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nIpoh, Perak, Malaysia<br \/>\n31th January 2018<\/p>\n<p>Location: Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia<br \/>\nHabitat: Fish farming at city fringe, ex-mining pools<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It has been a prolonged wet season and this was one of the few bright sunny mornings. This Little Heron (Butorides striata javanica) took the opportunity to get some warmth and dry out the wings. &#8220;I have seen Grey and Purple Herons hold their wings in this cupped fashion to dry out but not the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":53261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53260"}],"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=53260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}