{"id":24622,"date":"2012-10-30T15:34:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T14:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/waders\/squacco-heron-ardeola-ralloides\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:13:35","slug":"squacco-heron-ardeola-ralloides","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/waders\/squacco-heron-ardeola-ralloides\/","title":{"rendered":"Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Squacco Heron, Ardeola ralloides, is a small heron of Old World origins, breeding in southern Europe and the Greater Middle East. It is a migrant, wintering in Africa. It is rare north of its breeding range.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet: Squacco Heron\u00a0<i>Ardeola\u00a0ralloides<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-181-24622\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1236\" 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\/squacco-heron-ardeola-ralloides\/squacco-heron-ardeola-ralloides.jpg\" title=\"Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides) at s&#039;Albufeira Marsh, Mallorca, Spain\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides) at s&#039;Albufeira Marsh, Mallorca, Spain\" alt=\"Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/squacco-heron-ardeola-ralloides\/thumbs\/thumbs_squacco-heron-ardeola-ralloides.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides)<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Squacco Heron, Ardeola ralloides, is a small heron of Old World origins, breeding in southern Europe and the Greater Middle East. It is a migrant, wintering in Africa. It is rare north of its breeding range. Factsheet: Squacco Heron\u00a0Ardeola\u00a0ralloides\u00a0 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":837581,"parent":17620,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[1696,883],"class_list":["post-24622","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ardeola-ralloides","tag-squacco-heron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24622","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=24622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24622\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}