{"id":815,"date":"2023-01-13T06:09:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T06:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/?p=815"},"modified":"2023-01-13T07:03:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T07:03:05","slug":"the-collared-falconet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/the-collared-falconet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Collared Falconet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Collared Falconet is the smallest bird of prey of the Indian subcontinent. Its body length is 18cm, smaller than a Red-vented Bulbul that falls prey to this tiny raptor many times. Jim\u2019s Jungle Retreat Chief Naturalist Manoj Sharma recalls having seen it attacking a Black Francolin, a bird much bigger than itself. Main diet of the Collared Falconet is large insects including butterflies, moths, dragonflies, bees and wasps that are caught in mid-air. The bird sits on an exposed perch, usually a bare top branch of a tree and launches sallies to hawk for these insects. It is also known to catch lizards and small mammals.<br>The Collared Falconet is found along the Himalayan foothills in Uttarakhand through Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bangladesh, north-eastern hill tracts and into south-east Asia as far east as central and south Indo-China.<br>This Collared Falconet was recorded by Manoj Sharma on safari to Corbett Tiger Reserve, in a patch of Jungle close to Jim\u2019s Jungle Retreat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Collared Falconet\" width=\"697\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FbofFRi2HTk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Collared Falconet is the smallest bird of prey of the Indian subcontinent. Its body length is 18cm, smaller than a Red-vented Bulbul that falls prey to this tiny raptor many times. Jim\u2019s Jungle Retreat Chief Naturalist Manoj Sharma recalls having seen it attacking a Black Francolin, a bird much bigger than itself. Main diet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/download-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}