{"id":67471,"date":"2023-06-02T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T08:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=67471"},"modified":"2023-06-02T17:08:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T09:08:29","slug":"female-olive-backed-sunbird-visits-russelia-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2023\/06\/02\/female-olive-backed-sunbird-visits-russelia-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Female olive-backed sunbird visits Russelia flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A female olive-backed sunbird was seen collecting nectar from the <em>Russelia equisetiformis\u00a0<\/em>flowers.\u00a0 These plants are commonly called firecrackers in Singapore.\u00a0 The branches which are allowed to cascade down from a height are covered profusely with small flowers.\u00a0 There are red, pink and beige cultivars of these flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Sunbirds love to visit them although they did not coevolve.\u00a0 Sunbirds are native to the Old World, extending from Africa to Middle East, Asia to tropical Australia. <em>Russelia\u00a0<\/em>is native to Mexico. Hummingbirds are native to the Americas and share similar long curved bills with the sunbirds. Sunbirds therefore are suitably adapted to collect nectar from the introduced <em>Russelia<\/em> flowers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Female sunbird collects nectar from Russelia flowers\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HQ-j9CrSAf8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sheng Lau shared the above video showing the female sunbird flitting from flower to flower.\u00a0 The video was taken in his garden on 2 June 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sunbird\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sunbird<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hummingbird\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hummingbird<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russelia_equisetiformis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russelia_equisetiformis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note to readers: If you like this post please tap on the Like button at the left bottom of page.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A female olive-backed sunbird was seen collecting nectar from the Russelia equisetiformis\u00a0flowers.\u00a0 These plants are commonly called firecrackers in Singapore.\u00a0 The branches which are allowed to cascade down from a height are covered profusely with small flowers.\u00a0 There are red, pink and beige cultivars of these flowers. Sunbirds love to visit them although they did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":67479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154,59,98],"tags":[1848,1847,215,1076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67471"}],"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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}