{"id":1764099,"date":"2017-11-20T17:59:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T16:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walkthewilderness.net\/?p=9642"},"modified":"2024-11-03T13:25:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T12:25:34","slug":"lilac-breasted-roller-in-amboseli-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/lilac-breasted-roller-in-amboseli-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilac-breasted Roller in Amboseli National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

After several safaris into the Amboseli National Park, we were yet to see anyAfrican Lion.<\/p>\n

And our driver-guide wanted to make one last attempt to search for them on one of our game drives.<\/p>\n

We started off on a good note with the sighting of yet another African Elephant, this time with a suckling calf.<\/p>\n

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Lilac-breasted Roller in Amboseli National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0The mother and calf crossed the road in front of us making a lovely picture. As we moved further into the park, we saw a male Reedbuck sitting in the open and we made good the opportunity with a crisp picture of him.<\/p>\n

Our next subject was the Common Fiscal that was perched beautifully on top of a shrub at near eye-level making the background blur into a near perfect bokeh.<\/p>\n

As we moved forward, we noticed this Lilac-breasted Roller sitting on an open perch in perfect light and we clicked a picture when it looked at the camera.<\/p>\n

But the side profile made for an even better composition, which we used as the feature image (first image) of this post.<\/p>\n

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After several safaris into the Amboseli National Park, we were yet to see anyAfrican Lion. And our driver-guide wanted to make one last attempt to search for them on one of our game drives. We started off on a good note with the sighting of yet another African Elephant, this time with a suckling calf. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2208,"featured_media":2197017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lilac-breasted-Roller.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Lilac-breasted Roller in Amboseli National Park","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[5478,8988,907,1896,2949],"class_list":["post-1764099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-african-elephant","tag-amboseli-national-park","tag-elephant","tag-lilac-breasted-roller","tag-reedbuck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2197017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}