{"id":11854,"date":"2021-07-05T21:16:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T01:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=11854"},"modified":"2021-07-05T21:16:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T01:16:18","slug":"venezuelan-independence-and-the-soldier-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/05\/venezuelan-independence-and-the-soldier-heron\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan Independence and the Soldier Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"jabiru at karanambu Guyana 2007 575\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/51293829390\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51293829390_94d70dc0b2_w.jpg\" alt=\"jabiru at karanambu Guyana 2007 575\" width=\"400\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The great collector of neotropical birds George K. Cherrie reports that during the war for Venezuelan independence, &#8220;a small company of Venezuelan soldiers were entrapped by Spanish troops. . . . At daybreak, [the Spaniards] made ready to attack, but suddenly wheeled about and rode precipitately in the opposite direction. . . . The Venezuelans were overjoyed to see in the dim light of dawn a long line of soldiers in white coats with red collar bands and shiny black caps marching at a double quick straight towards the Spanish camp. The Spaniards, believing that enemy reinforcements had arrived, mounted their horses and fled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;soldiers&#8221; that delivered the Venezuelans from certain annihilation were actually jabirus, &#8220;marching in solemn procession towards their feeding ground near the Spanish camp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela declared its independence 210 years ago today\u2014and won the battle to keep it thanks in part to the &#8220;soldier heron,&#8221; the biggest and most imposing stork in the New World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great collector of neotropical birds George K. Cherrie reports that during the war for Venezuelan independence, &#8220;a small company of Venezuelan soldiers were entrapped by Spanish troops. . . . At daybreak, [the Spaniards] made ready to attack, but suddenly wheeled about and rode precipitately in the opposite direction. . . . The Venezuelans &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/05\/venezuelan-independence-and-the-soldier-heron\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Venezuelan Independence and the Soldier Heron&#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\/11854"}],"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=11854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11855,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854\/revisions\/11855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}