{"id":63296,"date":"2022-04-10T03:44:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=63296"},"modified":"2022-04-10T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T19:44:08","slug":"golden-bellied-gerygone-plumage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2022\/04\/10\/golden-bellied-gerygone-plumage\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden-bellied Gerygone \u2013 plumage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An earlier account describes the Little Bronze Cuckoo (<em>Chalcites minutillus peninsularis<\/em>)\u00a0being fed by the Golden-bellied Gerygones (<em>Gerygone sulphurea sulphurea<\/em>) <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2018\/11\/10\/little-bronze-cuckoo-fed-by-golden-bellied-gerygones\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63297\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Little-Bronze-Cuckoo-Golden-bellied-Gerygone-9a-JB-Johore-Malaysia-28th-October-2018-590x434.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Little-Bronze-Cuckoo-Golden-bellied-Gerygone-9a-JB-Johore-Malaysia-28th-October-2018-590x434.jpeg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Little-Bronze-Cuckoo-Golden-bellied-Gerygone-9a-JB-Johore-Malaysia-28th-October-2018.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This post provides further images of the Golden-bellied Gerygone host parents.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63298\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Little-Bronze-Cuckoo-Golden-bellied-Gerygone-11a-JB-Johore-Malaysia-28th-October-2018-590x443.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Little-Bronze-Cuckoo-Golden-bellied-Gerygone-11a-JB-Johore-Malaysia-28th-October-2018-590x443.jpeg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Little-Bronze-Cuckoo-Golden-bellied-Gerygone-11a-JB-Johore-Malaysia-28th-October-2018.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note a feature that I have not seen described in literature &#8211; the symmetrical brown curved lines that come from the base of the neck into the breast but do not meet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63299\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-Little-Bronze-Cuckoo-Golden-bellied-Gerygone-12a-JB-Johore-Malaysia-28th-October-2018-590x443.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-Little-Bronze-Cuckoo-Golden-bellied-Gerygone-12a-JB-Johore-Malaysia-28th-October-2018-590x443.jpeg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-Little-Bronze-Cuckoo-Golden-bellied-Gerygone-12a-JB-Johore-Malaysia-28th-October-2018.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This feature can be seen in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macaulaylibrary.org\/oriental-bird-images\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oriental Bird Club Image Database<\/a>, especially of the <em>G. s. sulphurea<\/em> subspecies. Some birds (on-line image search) have it very prominently, others less obvious. I wonder if it is a breeding plumage and waxes-wanes?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63300\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Little-Bronze-Cuckoo-Golden-bellied-Gerygone-10a-JB-Johore-Malaysia-28th-October-2018-590x434.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Little-Bronze-Cuckoo-Golden-bellied-Gerygone-10a-JB-Johore-Malaysia-28th-October-2018-590x434.jpeg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Little-Bronze-Cuckoo-Golden-bellied-Gerygone-10a-JB-Johore-Malaysia-28th-October-2018.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amar-Singh HSS (Dato&#8217; Dr)<\/strong> &#8211; Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia<\/p>\n<p>Equipment: Nikon D500 SLR with Tamron SP 150-600mm f\/5-6.3 Di VC USD, handheld<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earlier account describes the Little Bronze Cuckoo (Chalcites minutillus peninsularis)\u00a0being fed by the Golden-bellied Gerygones (Gerygone sulphurea sulphurea) HERE. This post provides further images of the Golden-bellied Gerygone host parents. Note a feature that I have not seen described in literature &#8211; the symmetrical brown curved lines that come from the base of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":63297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63296"}],"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=63296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}