{"id":60292,"date":"2021-09-14T09:25:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T01:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=60292"},"modified":"2021-09-14T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T01:26:28","slug":"plain-flowerpecker-feeding-on-mistletoe-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2021\/09\/14\/plain-flowerpecker-feeding-on-mistletoe-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Plain Flowerpecker feeding on mistletoe fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A single Plain Flowerpecker (<em>Dicaeum concolor<\/em> [<em>minullum<\/em>] <em>borneanum<\/em>) was seen feeding on the fruits of the Rusty-leaf Mistletoe (<em>Scurrula ferruginea<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Plain-Flowerpecker-mistletoejpeg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"452\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Plain-Flowerpecker-mistletoejpeg.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Plain-Flowerpecker-mistletoejpeg-590x444.jpeg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFood of items I have observed Plain Flowerpeckers feeding on:<br \/>\n1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em>Scurrula ferruginea<\/em> (Rusty-leaf Mistletoe) \u2013 native plant, fruit and nectar feeding<br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em>Melastoma malabathricum<\/em> (Straits rhododendron) \u2013 native plant, fruit feeding<br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Other unidentified Mistletoe<br \/>\n4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em>Bridelia tomentosa<\/em> fruit.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Amar-Singh HSS (Dato&#8217; Dr)<\/strong><br \/>\nIpoh, Perak, Malaysia<br \/>\n22nd February 2021<\/p>\n<p>Location: Kledang-Sayong Forest Reserve, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia<br \/>\nHabitat: Primary forest\u00a0<br \/>\nEquipment: Equipment: Nikon 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":"<p>A single Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum concolor [minullum] borneanum) was seen feeding on the fruits of the Rusty-leaf Mistletoe (Scurrula ferruginea). \u00a0 Food of items I have observed Plain Flowerpeckers feeding on: 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Scurrula ferruginea (Rusty-leaf Mistletoe) \u2013 native plant, fruit and nectar feeding 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Melastoma malabathricum (Straits rhododendron) \u2013 native plant, fruit feeding 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Other unidentified Mistletoe 4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bridelia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":60294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60292"}],"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=60292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}