{"id":10413,"date":"2015-11-06T12:10:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T19:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10413"},"modified":"2015-11-06T12:13:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T19:13:14","slug":"suppose-its-a-stock-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/06\/suppose-its-a-stock-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Suppose It&#8217;s a Stock Image?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Vulci\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/4638629411\/in\/photolist-9MyE9V-9MyDSD-9MBrEy-dU4rTU-84UgLv-84Ugwt-84XntQ-84Ugbk-84XnJy-84UebR-84XmAy-84Xo2E-84Uf5T-84XmQy-84Xm2b-84UdCz-84Ud8v-84Xksj-84Xjd5-84Ucp4-84UbVa-84XjJG-84UcUH-84Xiw1-84Ubb2-84XhJd-84XhrL-84XgSG-84Xhbq-84XgBh-84XiJW-84UaVF\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4047\/4638629411_86e9dfbb58_z.jpg\" alt=\"Vulci\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The ruins of the Etruscan city of Vulci are one of my favorite sites on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ventbird.com\/people\/rick-wright\">our Birds and Art tours of Tuscany<\/a>. We wander among the temples and tombs, the palaces and the privies, while <strong>hoopoes<\/strong>, <strong>crested larks<\/strong>, and cheerful little <strong>Italian sparrows<\/strong>\u00a0go about their own feathered business on the fields and forest edges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/8465411454_939144b223_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10416\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/8465411454_939144b223_o.jpg\" alt=\"8465411454_939144b223_o\" width=\"525\" height=\"953\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/8465411454_939144b223_o.jpg 525w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/8465411454_939144b223_o-165x300.jpg 165w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We aren&#8217;t the first to have noticed that a visit to Vulci combines art, archaeology, and nature in an especially exciting way. The signs directing drivers to the visitor center feature one of the site&#8217;s most &#8220;desirable&#8221; birds, the\u00a0<strong>golden oriole<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe not. Maybe not quite.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10414\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/4638645729_e4538b21ce_o-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"4638645729_e4538b21ce_o\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/4638645729_e4538b21ce_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/4638645729_e4538b21ce_o-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/4638645729_e4538b21ce_o.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A&#8221; for effort indeed, but we smile each time, and wonder what the ornithologist son of Vulci&#8217;s nineteenth-century owner Lucien Bonaparte might have thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ruins of the Etruscan city of Vulci are one of my favorite sites on our Birds and Art tours of Tuscany. We wander among the temples and tombs, the palaces and the privies, while hoopoes, crested larks, and cheerful little Italian sparrows\u00a0go about their own feathered business on the fields and forest edges. We &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/06\/suppose-its-a-stock-image\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Suppose It&#8217;s a Stock Image?&#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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10413"}],"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=10413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10419,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10413\/revisions\/10419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}