{"id":17370,"date":"2012-07-17T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/paradise-shelduck-tadorna-variegata\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T08:54:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:54:28","slug":"paradise-shelduck-tadorna-variegata","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/ducks\/paradise-shelduck-tadorna-variegata\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise Shelduck Tadorna variegata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Paradise Shelduck, Tadorna variegata, is a large goose-like duck endemic to New Zealand. They are known to the Maori as Putangitangi but now commonly referred to as the &#8220;Paradise duck&#8221;, and are prized game birds. Both the male and female have striking plumage, the male has a black head and barred black body, the female a white head with a chestnut body.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-55-17370\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-357\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/paradise-shelduck-tadorna-variegata\/paradise-shelduck-tadorna-variegata.jpg\" title=\"Paradise Shelduck (Tadorna variegata) at Martin Mere, Lancashire, UK\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Paradise Shelduck (Tadorna variegata) at Martin Mere, Lancashire, UK\" alt=\"Paradise Shelduck (Tadorna variegata).jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/paradise-shelduck-tadorna-variegata\/thumbs\/thumbs_paradise-shelduck-tadorna-variegata.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Paradise Shelduck (Tadorna variegata).jpg<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/paradise_shelduck.mp3\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">paradise_shelduck<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paradise Shelduck, Tadorna variegata, is a large goose-like duck endemic to New Zealand. They are known to the Maori as Putangitangi but now commonly referred to as the &#8220;Paradise duck&#8221;, and are prized game birds. Both the male and female have striking plumage, the male has a black head and barred black body, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":826854,"parent":17273,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[1372,1373],"class_list":["post-17370","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-paradise-shelduck","tag-tadorna-variegata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17370\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}