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Zebra Dove feeding on grain/ lentil

on 29th June 2018

“I came across a large number of birds feeding by the roadside on grain that had been thrown there, possibly intentionally thrown to feed them. It looked like some sort of lentil.

“The Zebra Doves (Geopelia striata) were feeding furiously on it, often taking one grain after the other rapidly. It was hard to image this.

Three grains in the beak at the same time. They use the tongue to push back the grains that are picked up to make room rapidly for more.
Grains that the Zebra Doves are feeding on.

“The image below shows an immature bird feeding.

“A video of the activity in real time is shown below.

“To better show the ‘multiple grain feeding’ activity, I extracted numerous images from the video, cropped them to focus on the activity and then did a video animation in slow motion, see below.

Dato’ Dr Amar-Singh HSS
Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
28th April 2018

Location: Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
Habitat: Urban environment

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YC Wee

Dr Wee played a significant role as a green advocate in Singapore through his extensive involvement in various organizations and committees: as Secretary and Chairman for the Malayan Nature Society (Singapore Branch), and with the Nature Society (Singapore) as founding President (1978-1995). He has also served in the Nature Reserve Board (1987-1989), Nature Reserves Committee (1990-1996), National Council on the Environment/Singapore Environment Council (1992-1996), Work-Group on Nature Conservation (1992) and Inter-Varsity Council on the Environment (1995-1997). He is Patron of the Singapore Gardening Society and was appointed Honorary Museum Associate of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM) in 2012. In 2005, Dr Wee started the Bird Ecology Study Group. With more than 6,000 entries, the website has become a valuable resource consulted by students, birdwatchers and researchers locally and internationally. The views and opinions expressed in this article are his own, and do not represent those of LKCNHM, the National University of Singapore or its affiliated institutions.

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