{"id":1692,"date":"2008-07-25T21:05:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T04:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/25\/a-mystery-from-guyana\/"},"modified":"2014-12-04T11:15:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T18:15:55","slug":"a-mystery-from-guyana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/25\/a-mystery-from-guyana\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mystery from Guyana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like anyone else with sense, I love jacamars, and so I lingered over last November&#8217;s poor images of <strong>Paradise Jacamars <\/strong>when I was moving them to flickr tonight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24908638@N03\/2702057053\/\" class=\"tt-flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3295\/2702057053_510096a135.jpg\" alt=\"paradise jacamar Guyana 2007 412\" border=\"0\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quite a bird, as sharp at one end as at the other!<\/p>\n<p>One of my photos, though, offered up a surprise&#8211;and a mystery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24908638@N03\/2702291571\/\" class=\"tt-flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3156\/2702291571_8580c6c318.jpg\" alt=\"mystery Guyana\" border=\"0\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In flagrant violation of Rule 2 for Successful Birding, I was looking at the stupid viewfinder when something flashed across the background.\u00a0  What is it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24908638@N03\/2702291615\/\" class=\"tt-flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3239\/2702291615_4ea9495702.jpg\" alt=\"mystery Guyana cropped\" border=\"0\" height=\"253\" width=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is it really blue? I&#8217;m at a loss, never having seen a <em>Cotinga <\/em>cotinga fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like anyone else with sense, I love jacamars, and so I lingered over last November&#8217;s poor images of Paradise Jacamars when I was moving them to flickr tonight. Quite a bird, as sharp at one end as at the other! One of my photos, though, offered up a surprise&#8211;and a mystery. In flagrant violation of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/25\/a-mystery-from-guyana\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Mystery from Guyana&#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":[27,1,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692"}],"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=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7426,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/7426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}