{"id":11222,"date":"2018-11-12T00:06:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T07:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=11222"},"modified":"2018-11-12T07:06:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T14:06:26","slug":"a-whooping-crane-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/12\/a-whooping-crane-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"A Whooping Crane in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred fifty years ago today, the menagerie of the Zoological Society of London received its first whooping crane, an immature bird purchased from the Antwerp zoo.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"n160_w1150\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/biodivlibrary\/7874632416\/in\/photolist-abcPtw-cZRxSq-e3pN5Q-JyhgHf-GGAhFs\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8424\/7874632416_81ef4ba944.jpg\" alt=\"n160_w1150\" width=\"500\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to admit that I hadn&#8217;t known there were any, ever, in European collections, though <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.unl.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1098&amp;context=nacwgproc\">a bit of google &#8220;research<\/a>&#8221; discovers this useful chart:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.unl.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1098&amp;context=nacwgproc\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11223\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-12-at-9.00.40-AM-1024x484.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-12-at-9.00.40-AM-1024x484.png 1024w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-12-at-9.00.40-AM-300x142.png 300w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-12-at-9.00.40-AM-768x363.png 768w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-12-at-9.00.40-AM.png 1414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note, though, that the Antwerp Zoo goes unmentioned, and that the birds (a second was soon added) held by the Zoological Society of London are listed here with no details &#8212; it seems as if another look using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/\">the new &#8220;full text&#8221; search option at the Biodiversity Heritage Library<\/a>\u00a0might well produce more records and deeper details.<\/p>\n<p>Have at it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred fifty years ago today, the menagerie of the Zoological Society of London received its first whooping crane, an immature bird purchased from the Antwerp zoo. I&#8217;m happy to admit that I hadn&#8217;t known there were any, ever, in European collections, though a bit of google &#8220;research&#8221; discovers this useful chart: Note, though, that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/12\/a-whooping-crane-in-london\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Whooping Crane in London&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222"}],"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=11222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11224,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222\/revisions\/11224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}