{"id":1413,"date":"2015-10-12T15:25:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T05:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2015-10-12T15:25:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T05:25:10","slug":"rotorua-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/rotorua-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotorua Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dozens of red-billed gulls and pied cormorants are nesting on a tiny islet a few meters from the shore at Sulphur Point in Rotorua.<\/p>\n

The wind was offshore, bringing the hellish stench of Satan’s flatulence from the geothermal features to the South. There used to be mineral baths here, with a full-time attendant to pull people from the pools when they became unconscious from the fumes.<\/p>\n

They though this was healthy and good for them.<\/p>\n

Anyway. Birds.<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a>

Squawk!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Red<\/a>

Final Wingstroke on Landing<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Red<\/a>

Symmetry<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Black-backed<\/a>

A Red-biiled gull chases a Black-backed gull. The Black-backed gull is about five times the weight of the red-bill.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Gulls<\/a>

Fight’s on!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"This<\/a>

This is a life-and death struggle. The larger bird can and will eat the eggs and chicks of the smaller gull. Birds suffer major injuries and die in these fights.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Pied<\/a>

Announcing Short Final, Branch 20 Left.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dozens of red-billed gulls and pied cormorants are nesting on a tiny islet a few meters from the shore at Sulphur Point in Rotorua. The wind was offshore, bringing the hellish stench of Satan’s flatulence from the geothermal features to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}