{"id":59953,"date":"2021-08-27T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T03:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=59953"},"modified":"2023-06-24T16:49:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T08:49:09","slug":"birds-feeding-on-the-fruits-of-bridelia-tomentosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2021\/08\/27\/birds-feeding-on-the-fruits-of-bridelia-tomentosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds feeding on the fruits of Bridelia tomentosa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bridelia tomentosa\u00a0<\/em>is one of the best forest shrubs or small trees for birds. When fruiting, it attracts flowerpeckers, sunbirds, barbets, bulbuls and many other species. The fruit is 4.5-6.5mm in diameter, greenish when unripe and to bluish-purple when ripe.<\/p>\n

Birds seen on this occasion are shown below. Unfortunately I failed to photograph the following species eating the fruits:\u00a0Asian Fairy Bluebird Irena puella malayensis,\u00a0<\/em>Cream-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus simplex <\/em>and Cinereous Bulbul Hemixos cinereus.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lesser Green Leafbird Chloropsis cyan<\/em>opogon<\/p>\n

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Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker Prionochilus percussus ignicapilla<\/em><\/p>\n

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Olive-winged Bulbul Pycnonotus plumosus plumosus<\/em><\/p>\n

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Red-eyed Bulbul Pycnonotus brunneus brunneus<\/em><\/p>\n

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Black-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus atriceps atriceps<\/em><\/p>\n

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Buff-vented Bulbul Iole charlottae crypta<\/em><\/p>\n

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Yellow Vented Bulbul Pycnonotus goiavier analis<\/em><\/p>\n

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Gold-whiskered Barbet Megalaima chrysopogon laeta<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dato\u2019 Dr Amar-Singh HSS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia<\/strong><\/p>\n

15th February 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Location:<\/strong> Kledang-Sayong Forest Reserve, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia<\/p>\n

Habitat:<\/strong> Fringe of primary forest<\/p>\n

Equipment:<\/strong>\u00a0Nikon D500 SLR with Nikon AF-S Nikkor 500mm f\/5.6E PF ED VR, handheld with Rode VideoMic Pro Plus Shotgun Microphone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bridelia tomentosa\u00a0is one of the best forest shrubs or small trees for birds. When fruiting, it attracts flowerpeckers, sunbirds, barbets, bulbuls and many other species. The fruit is 4.5-6.5mm in diameter, greenish when unripe and to bluish-purple when ripe. Birds seen on this occasion are shown below. Unfortunately I failed to photograph the following species […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":59954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59953"}],"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=59953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}