{"id":52051,"date":"2013-10-26T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T10:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/japanese-night-heron-gorsachius-goisagi-en\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T08:57:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T07:57:16","slug":"japanese-night-heron-gorsachius-goisagi-en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/threatened-bird-species\/en-endangered\/japanese-night-heron-gorsachius-goisagi-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Night Heron Gorsachius goisagi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese Night Heron is extremely secretive and effectively breeds only in southern Japan. It winters south to the Philippines, where it is easily confused with Malayan Night Heron, which looks very similar, has the same habitat and characteristics. There are only 600 &#8211; 1700 birds remaining, and the population is continuing to decline due to habitat loss.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-455-52051\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-4168\" 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\/japanese-night-heron-gorsachius-goisagi-en\/japanese-night-heron-gorsachius-goisagi-john-a-wright-8391.jpg\" title=\"A Japanese Night Heron (Gorsachius goisagi) hunts for prey in grass in Kyushu, Japan.\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A Japanese Night Heron (Gorsachius goisagi) hunts for prey in grass in Kyushu, Japan.\" alt=\"Japanese Night Heron (Gorsachius goisagi)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/japanese-night-heron-gorsachius-goisagi-en\/thumbs\/thumbs_japanese-night-heron-gorsachius-goisagi-john-a-wright-8391.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Japanese Night Heron (Gorsachius goisagi)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-4167\" 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\/japanese-night-heron-gorsachius-goisagi-en\/japanese-night-heron-gorsachius-goisagi-john-a-wright-8115.jpg\" title=\"A Japanese Night Heron (Gorsachius goisagi) hunts for prey in grass in Kyushu, Japan.\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A Japanese Night Heron (Gorsachius goisagi) hunts for prey in grass in Kyushu, Japan.\" alt=\"Japanese Night Heron (Gorsachius goisagi)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/japanese-night-heron-gorsachius-goisagi-en\/thumbs\/thumbs_japanese-night-heron-gorsachius-goisagi-john-a-wright-8115.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Japanese Night Heron (Gorsachius goisagi)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-4166\" 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\/japanese-night-heron-gorsachius-goisagi-en\/japanese-night-heron-gorsachius-goisagi-john-a-wright-8033.jpg\" title=\"A Japanese Night Heron (Gorsachius goisagi) hunts for prey in grass in Kyushu, Japan.\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A Japanese Night Heron (Gorsachius goisagi) hunts for prey in grass in Kyushu, Japan.\" alt=\"Japanese Night Heron (Gorsachius goisagi)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/japanese-night-heron-gorsachius-goisagi-en\/thumbs\/thumbs_japanese-night-heron-gorsachius-goisagi-john-a-wright-8033.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Japanese Night Heron (Gorsachius goisagi)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-4165\" 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\/japanese-night-heron-gorsachius-goisagi-en\/japanese-night-heron-earthworm-gorsachius-goisagi-john-a-wright-7845.jpg\" title=\"A Japanese Night Heron (Gorsachius goisagi) extracts a large earthworm from the soil beneath grass in Kyushu, Japan.\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A Japanese Night Heron (Gorsachius goisagi) extracts a large earthworm from the soil beneath grass in Kyushu, Japan.\" alt=\"Japanese Night Heron (Gorsachius goisagi) extracting Earthworm\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/japanese-night-heron-gorsachius-goisagi-en\/thumbs\/thumbs_japanese-night-heron-earthworm-gorsachius-goisagi-john-a-wright-7845.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Japanese Night Heron (Gorsachius goisagi) extracting Earthworm<\/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 Japanese Night Heron is extremely secretive and effectively breeds only in southern Japan. It winters south to the Philippines, where it is easily confused with Malayan Night Heron, which looks very similar, has the same habitat and characteristics. There are only 600 &#8211; 1700 birds remaining, and the population is continuing to decline due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":68668,"parent":42868,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52051","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52051","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=52051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52051\/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\/68668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}