{"id":10295,"date":"2015-08-21T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10295"},"modified":"2015-08-21T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T15:54:00","slug":"not-a-bali-mynah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/21\/not-a-bali-mynah\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Bali Mynah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t really expect Rothschild&#8217;s\u00a0bird, obviously, but here in New Jersey, I\u00a0am\u00a0always on the lookout for\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/29\/bulgaria-2007-a-black-sea-clifftop\/\">rosy starlings<\/a><\/strong> this time of year. It hasn&#8217;t happened yet, and it didn&#8217;t happen this morning in Brookdale Park, either. But a first scan of the flock of 190-some starlings there did\u00a0turn up an oddity.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"European starling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/20768189101\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/641\/20768189101_e490f3b0ab_z.jpg\" alt=\"European starling\" width=\"640\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I rarely see leucism in <strong>European starlings<\/strong> at all, and this blond beauty was certainly the most nearly white\u00a0I&#8217;ve ever encountered.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t really expect Rothschild&#8217;s\u00a0bird, obviously, but here in New Jersey, I\u00a0am\u00a0always on the lookout for\u00a0rosy starlings this time of year. It hasn&#8217;t happened yet, and it didn&#8217;t happen this morning in Brookdale Park, either. But a first scan of the flock of 190-some starlings there did\u00a0turn up an oddity. I rarely see leucism in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/21\/not-a-bali-mynah\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not a Bali Mynah&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[558,557,559,556,560],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10297,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions\/10297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}