{"id":43216,"date":"2013-07-23T07:33:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T05:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/oriental-stork-ciconia-boyciana-en\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:15:47","slug":"oriental-stork-ciconia-boyciana-en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/threatened-bird-species\/en-endangered\/oriental-stork-ciconia-boyciana-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Oriental Stork Ciconia boyciana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oriental Stork is a very large unmistakeable bird whose numbers have been decimated by habitat loss, pollution, over-fishing and agricultural practices. It has a very restricted range and a small population, hence its endangered status. In Japan an effort is underway to increase the wild population, similar to the effort to reintroduce the Crested Ibis.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet:  Oriental Stork Ciconia boyciana <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-373-43216\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3211\" 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\/oriental-stork-ciconia-boyciana-en\/oriental-stork-ciconia-boyciana-john-a-wright-4617.jpg\" title=\"An adult Oriental Stork (Ciconia boyciana) atop a power pole in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan.\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"An adult Oriental Stork (Ciconia boyciana) atop a power pole in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan.\" alt=\"Oriental Stork (Ciconia boyciana)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/oriental-stork-ciconia-boyciana-en\/thumbs\/thumbs_oriental-stork-ciconia-boyciana-john-a-wright-4617.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Oriental Stork (Ciconia boyciana)<\/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 Oriental Stork is a very large unmistakeable bird whose numbers have been decimated by habitat loss, pollution, over-fishing and agricultural practices. It has a very restricted range and a small population, hence its endangered status. In Japan an effort is underway to increase the wild population, similar to the effort to reintroduce the Crested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":68669,"parent":42868,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43216","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43216","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43216\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}