{"id":437,"date":"2011-12-26T11:15:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T22:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/?p=437"},"modified":"2017-01-05T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T06:40:00","slug":"plumed-whistling-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/2011\/plumed-whistling-ducks\/","title":{"rendered":"Plumed whistling ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"figure float-xs-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid\" alt=\"Plumed whistling duck\" title=\"Plumed whistling duck (Dendrocygna eytoni), a rare vagrant to NZ.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/images\/plumed-whistling-duck-16004.jpg\" \/><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">A plumed whistling duck resting beside a small urban pond reflecting the fresh spring leaves of trees on the other side. Taken with a Canon 1D Mark IV, EF600mm f\/4L IS USM + 1.4x TC, 1\/500 s exposure at f10, ISO 400.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The latest additions to my website are a few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/gallery\/index.php\/category\/plumed-whistling-duck\" title=\"photos of plumed whistling ducks in my gallery\">images of plumed (grass) whistling ducks (<em>Dendrocygna eytoni<\/em>)<\/a>\u2014rare vagrants to New Zealand from Australia. Three of these stunning little ducks were discovered in a city park in Napier, and reported on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdingnz.net\/forum\/\" title=\"BirdingNZ.net\">BirdingNZ.net<\/a>, and as soon as I could I was off to try to catch up with them. In Australia they feed on grasses and legumes near wetlands, and these birds in Napier seemed quite happy grazing the mown lawn of a urban park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"figure float-xs-left\"><a href=\"\/new\/2011\/plumed-whistling-ducks\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img blog-thumb\" alt=\"Plumed whistling duck\" title=\"Plumed whistling duck\" src=\"http:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/images\/plumed-whisling-duck.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Photos of plumed whistling ducks have just been uploaded. This is a rare vagrant to New Zealand from Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[20,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}