{"id":55521,"date":"2019-03-08T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T16:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=55521"},"modified":"2023-06-24T16:50:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T08:50:58","slug":"juvenile-asian-glossy-starling-feeding-on-golden-penda-flower-nectar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2019\/03\/08\/juvenile-asian-glossy-starling-feeding-on-golden-penda-flower-nectar\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Asian Glossy Starling feeding on Golden Penda flower nectar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?attachment_id=55522\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55522\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/StarlingAG-GoldenPenda-fl-yc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/StarlingAG-GoldenPenda-fl-yc.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/StarlingAG-GoldenPenda-fl-yc-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far seven species of birds have been documented feeding on the nectar of the flowers of Golden Penda (<em>Xanthostemon chrysanthus<\/em>) \u2013 see <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2011\/03\/30\/golden-penda-xanthostemon-chrysanthus-and-nectar-feeders\/\">HERE<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2018\/04\/14\/birds-and-the-golden-penda-trees\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?attachment_id=55523\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55523\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/StarlingAG-GoldenPenda-fl-yc-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"422\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/StarlingAG-GoldenPenda-fl-yc-2.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/StarlingAG-GoldenPenda-fl-yc-2-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the documentation of the juvenile Asian Glossy Starling (<em>Aplonis panayensis<\/em>) feeding on these flowers, the total number is now eight species \u2013 not bad for an introduced tree planted along the wayside.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zrNh3FkgOwg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>YC Wee<\/strong><br \/>\nSingapore<br \/>\n25th September 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far seven species of birds have been documented feeding on the nectar of the flowers of Golden Penda (Xanthostemon chrysanthus) \u2013 see HERE and HERE. With the documentation of the juvenile Asian Glossy Starling (Aplonis panayensis) feeding on these flowers, the total number is now eight species \u2013 not bad for an introduced tree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":55522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55521"}],"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=55521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}