{"id":1451,"date":"2007-12-31T16:38:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T23:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/31\/guyana-cock-of-the-rock\/"},"modified":"2014-12-04T11:15:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T18:15:55","slug":"guyana-cock-of-the-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/31\/guyana-cock-of-the-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana: Cock-of-the-Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had several opportunities to see another spectacular cotinga, the <strong>Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock<\/strong>. Not only is this one of the most startlingly colored birds in the world, but it inhabits some of the most beautiful scenery anywhere; even had we missed the bird, the short hike in to our first site, on the Prince Charles Trail, would have been well worth it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/prince-chalres-trail-c-of-the-rock-guyana-2007-309.bmp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Moss-clad rocks and shady clefts are this species&#8217; preferred habitat; their fondness for rocks extends even to the placement of their well-camouflaged nests, a large mud jug on a vertical cave wall. This one had been inactive for some time, we were told, but seemed still quite usable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/c-of-hte-rock-nest-guyana-2007-331.bmp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And just around the corner we found a product of this nest, a bright male glowing in the low shady bushes, his strange crest curled forward to cover the bill.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/better-guyanan-cock-of-the-rock-guyana-2007-629.bmp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like the male we would see a couple of days later at Kaietur Falls, this bird remained silent, leaving us all good excuse to return during the lekking season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had several opportunities to see another spectacular cotinga, the Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock. Not only is this one of the most startlingly colored birds in the world, but it inhabits some of the most beautiful scenery anywhere; even had we missed the bird, the short hike in to our first site, on the Prince Charles Trail, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/31\/guyana-cock-of-the-rock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guyana: Cock-of-the-Rock&#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\/1451"}],"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=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7540,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/7540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}