{"id":23244,"date":"2012-10-29T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnandrewwright.com\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:31:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:31:27","slug":"pied-harrier-circus-melanoleucos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/pied-harrier-circus-melanoleucos\/","title":{"rendered":"Pied Harrier | Circus melanoleucos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pied Harriers are very rare birds to Japan, so it was to no surprise that when a juvenile male showed up at Isahaya, it created quite a stir among Japanese bird watchers and photographers.<\/p>\n

The young raptor was a regular around a certain section of reeds, where it snatched and consumed a wide variety of prey including mantis, rodent and small bird.<\/p>\n

Initially it was thought this bird would move on quickly, but even this morning it was still haunting the reed beds – two weeks after it was first observed!<\/p>\n

I hope it will stay in Isahaya the whole winter, but that is unlikely.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Pied Harrier (juvenile male)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pied Harriers are very rare birds to Japan, so it was to no surprise that when a juvenile male showed up at Isahaya, it created quite a stir among Japanese bird watchers and photographers. The young raptor was a regular around a certain section of reeds, where it snatched and consumed a wide variety of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2192560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pied-harrier-juvenile-1200-240-4930-500x333.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1323,820,726],"class_list":["post-23244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-circus-melanoleucos","tag-isahaya","tag-pied-harrier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23244","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}