{"id":1440,"date":"2007-12-28T05:16:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T12:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/28\/guyana-trash-birds\/"},"modified":"2014-12-04T11:15:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T18:15:55","slug":"guyana-trash-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/28\/guyana-trash-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana: Trash Birds?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like the term and I certainly don&#8217;t like the idea: there really are no &#8220;trash birds&#8221; if you&#8217;re a real birder. But in Guyana in November, <strong>Great Kiskadee<\/strong>, hardly a trash bird by any reckoning here in the US, nearly attained that status: not by virtue of its abundance, but by virtue of its less than virtuous behavior in the botanical gardens in Georgetown.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/great-kiskadees-guyana-2007-023.bmp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At first I thought, or at least hoped, that they were in search of insects attracted to the garbage, but no, they were happily cleaning out the styrofoam containers and greasy wrappers themselves.<\/p>\n<p>(Notandum: Guyanans are extremely civilized people, and make conscientious use of public trash receptacles, which are then rifled overnight by feral dogs, to the obvious delight of the kiskadees.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like the term and I certainly don&#8217;t like the idea: there really are no &#8220;trash birds&#8221; if you&#8217;re a real birder. But in Guyana in November, Great Kiskadee, hardly a trash bird by any reckoning here in the US, nearly attained that status: not by virtue of its abundance, but by virtue of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/28\/guyana-trash-birds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guyana: Trash Birds?!?&#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":[27,1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440"}],"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=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7551,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/7551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}