{"id":63178,"date":"2022-03-10T05:04:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=63178"},"modified":"2022-03-10T05:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:04:18","slug":"chestnut-bellied-malkoha-forage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2022\/03\/10\/chestnut-bellied-malkoha-forage\/","title":{"rendered":"Chestnut-bellied Malkoha &#8211; forage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63179\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-Chestnut-bellied-Malkoha-1a-Ipoh-Perak-Malaysia-12th-October-2020-590x459.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-Chestnut-bellied-Malkoha-1a-Ipoh-Perak-Malaysia-12th-October-2020-590x459.jpeg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-Chestnut-bellied-Malkoha-1a-Ipoh-Perak-Malaysia-12th-October-2020.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Observed a single Chestnut-bellied Malkoha (<em>Phaenicophaeus sumatranus<\/em>) foraging in the trees, as it often does scampering and hopping from branch to branch.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63180\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-Chestnut-bellied-Malkoha-2a-Ipoh-Perak-Malaysia-12th-October-2020-416x590.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-Chestnut-bellied-Malkoha-2a-Ipoh-Perak-Malaysia-12th-October-2020-416x590.jpg 416w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-Chestnut-bellied-Malkoha-2a-Ipoh-Perak-Malaysia-12th-October-2020.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I saw it dislodged a large flying insect and, to my surprise, it did an aerial sally to chase after and obtain its prey; with wings and tail all spread out. Not seen this behaviour previously.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63181\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-Chestnut-bellied-Malkoha-3a-Ipoh-Perak-Malaysia-12th-October-2020-452x590.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-Chestnut-bellied-Malkoha-3a-Ipoh-Perak-Malaysia-12th-October-2020-452x590.jpg 452w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-Chestnut-bellied-Malkoha-3a-Ipoh-Perak-Malaysia-12th-October-2020.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although called \u2018Chestnut-bellied\u2019, I think \u2018Chestnut-vented\u2019 might be more apt.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63182\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-Chestnut-bellied-Malkoha-4a-Ipoh-Perak-Malaysia-12th-October-2020-590x478.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-Chestnut-bellied-Malkoha-4a-Ipoh-Perak-Malaysia-12th-October-2020-590x478.jpeg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-Chestnut-bellied-Malkoha-4a-Ipoh-Perak-Malaysia-12th-October-2020.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amar-Singh HSS (Dato&#8217; Dr)<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia<\/p>\n<p>Location: Kledang-Sayong Forest Reserve, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia<\/p>\n<p>Habitat: Trail along primary jungle<\/p>\n<p>Date: 12th October 2020<\/p>\n<p>Equipment: 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>Observed a single Chestnut-bellied Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus sumatranus) foraging in the trees, as it often does scampering and hopping from branch to branch. I saw it dislodged a large flying insect and, to my surprise, it did an aerial sally to chase after and obtain its prey; with wings and tail all spread out. Not seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":63179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63178"}],"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=63178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}