{"id":9986,"date":"2015-05-08T11:37:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=9986"},"modified":"2015-05-08T11:37:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:37:41","slug":"kite-tails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/kite-tails\/","title":{"rendered":"Kite Tails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ventbird.com\/birding-tour\/2016\/09\/30\/germany-birds-art-in-berlin-brandenburg\">eastern Germany<\/a> has always been\u00a0the<strong> red kites<\/strong>, huge, floppy, swallow-tailed raptors seen in\u00a0just about any open area of\u00a0the countryside.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"red kite by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/16774846243\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7778\/16774846243_e645e1e814_z.jpg\" alt=\"red kite\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These carrion-eaters don&#8217;t need to be quite as nimble\u00a0as some of their smaller, more ambitious relatives, but they are still impressively maneuverable in the air, twisting and turning as they pass by at often remarkably close range.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"red kite by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/17394693201\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8863\/17394693201_d23ea2fa2a_z.jpg\" alt=\"red kite\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As this bird revealed the other day, it&#8217;s all in how they use that long, deep-forked tail.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"red kite by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/17430741391\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7729\/17430741391_ce7b9a509e_z.jpg\" alt=\"red kite\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>No promises, no guarantees, but I don&#8217;t see how we could miss this species next fall. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ventbird.com\/birding-tour\/2016\/09\/30\/germany-birds-art-in-berlin-brandenburg\">Join me in Brandenburg and Berlin<\/a>!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about eastern Germany has always been\u00a0the red kites, huge, floppy, swallow-tailed raptors seen in\u00a0just about any open area of\u00a0the countryside. These carrion-eaters don&#8217;t need to be quite as nimble\u00a0as some of their smaller, more ambitious relatives, but they are still impressively maneuverable in the air, twisting and turning as they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/kite-tails\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kite Tails&#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":[464,461],"tags":[467,465,466,276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986"}],"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=9986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9988,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions\/9988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}