{"id":7685,"date":"2009-03-30T21:06:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T13:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/besgroup.talfrynature.com\/?p=7685"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:44:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:44:25","slug":"lamp-post-storks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2009\/03\/30\/lamp-post-storks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamp post storks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/30-stork.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/30-stork.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"30 stork\" width=\"259\" height=\"390\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/30-stork.jpg 259w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/30-stork-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile on the way back to Singapore from Bukit Tinggi, at the entrance of Zoo Negara, Kuala Lumpur, we came across Milky (<em>Mycteria cinerea<\/em>) and Painted Storks (<em>Mycteria leucocephala<\/em>) (left), all perched on the lamp posts. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the lamp posts had up to three birds and some only single birds. I believe some of these birds were released by the Malaysians, and some of them could have flown up from Singapore, we will never know. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever it was quite a sight having these big birds right in the heart of town, along a very busy thoroughfare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Report by K C Tsang<br \/>\nPicture by Willi Kwek<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yong Ding Li<\/strong> has this to add: \u201cInterestingly all the painted and milky storks seen in Singapore and South Johor are most probably free-ranging birds from the Singapore Zoo (I have a newspaper cutting of these birds in Johor from a New Straits Times in the late 1990s). There is a second population of these free ranging birds in KL&#8217;s Zoo Negara but i dont think those came this far south. As far as milky storks are concerned at least, we cannot say with any certainty that they are of wild origin as there are free-ranging flocks at our Zoo. In Peninsular Malaysia, the only true wild Milky Stork is a declining flock of now less than 10 birds at the Matang Larut Mangrove Forest at Perak near Port Weld. The nearest colony to Singapore is either this or another colony on the east Sumatra coast in Jambi\/Riau (but I doubt these wander over since there is extensive mudflat to forage on the Sumatra east coast)\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhile on the way back to Singapore from Bukit Tinggi, at the entrance of Zoo Negara, Kuala Lumpur, we came across Milky (Mycteria cinerea) and Painted Storks (Mycteria leucocephala) (left), all perched on the lamp posts. \u201cSome of the lamp posts had up to three birds and some only single birds. I believe some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685"}],"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=7685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}