{"id":9234,"date":"2009-09-11T00:12:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/besgroup.talfrynature.com\/?p=9234"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:34:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:34:56","slug":"blue-tailed-x-little-green-bee-eater-hybrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2009\/09\/11\/blue-tailed-x-little-green-bee-eater-hybrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue-tailed x Little Green Bee-eater hybrid?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI am just a beginner to bird watching. Have been doing so for the past two years in areas in and around my hometown Chennai, India.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a nice web site that I visit from time to time to mostly admire bird photos. I recently saw your articles on interbreeding in birds [1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a> and 4<\/a>]. Would like to ask you if any interbreeding has been observed among different bee eaters.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am asking because I observed a pairing between Blue-tailed Bee-eaters (Merops philippinus<\/em>) and Little Green Bee-eater (Merops orientalis<\/em>) and have enclosed a photo of the resulting young one (left). I took this photo in Chennai, India.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was inside the Theosophical Society, Chennai, for bird watching and bird photography. After sometime I sat in a secluded spot under a tree. I was accompanied by a small female black dog and she was rolling on the dried grass and enjoying herself. There was a lot of bird activity nearby. I took my camera and waited for the right moment. I was not disappointed. I saw a pair of Eurasian Golden Orioles (Oriolus oriolus<\/em>) flying from one bush to another. The male finally settled down in the Jack fruit tree and posed quite nicely for sometime. The female bird was nearby in a bush. <\/p>\n

Then, I saw the Little Green Bee-eaters diving and catching flying insects. I noticed that one of the birds looked different from the others. I waited for the bird to sit still so that I could take a photo and try to identify the species. As you can see from the photo, she\/he looks very much different from the Little Green or the Blue-tailed. I think this is an offspring of the Blue-tailed and the Little Green. As far as I know interbreeding among these two species of bee-eaters has not been observed previously. Being a beginner to bird watching and bird photography it was quite an experience to observe something new.”<\/p>\n

Suchitra V. Srinivasan<\/strong><\/a>
\nChennai, India
\n4th September 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI am just a beginner to bird watching. Have been doing so for the past two years in areas in and around my hometown Chennai, India. \u201cThis is a nice web site that I visit from time to time to mostly admire bird photos. I recently saw your articles on interbreeding in birds [1, 2, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":9235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234"}],"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=9234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}