{"id":32170,"date":"2013-01-23T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=32170"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:36:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:36:55","slug":"cape-spurfowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/cape-spurfowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Spurfowl – Pternistis capensis"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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Cape Spurfowl<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

I have recently returned from a trip to South Africa and specifically Cape Town, an exciting and interesting place for all sorts of reasons. The wildlife opportunities are immense and varied with a vast variety of birdlife. One bird that I found interesting and very approachable was the Cape Spurfowl or Cape Francolin Pternistis capensis. From a distance this chicken-size bird appeares all dark but in good light and close up you can appreciate the beautiful vermiculated markings in each feather.<\/p>\n

I was struck that this may in some way have influenced African native dress because it is very remeniscent of native patterns in both clothing and decoration. I had seen a small group of birds feeding together and decided to go back later in the day when the sun was lower in the sky. I quickly located the “covey” and defying my age, lay myself down on the ground to get down to the birds level.<\/p>\n

The Spurfowl continued to feed and quickly become oblivious, or uncaring of my presence. Suddenly one of the birds shook it’s feathers and gave me a magnificent photo opportunity. The result was the image above which shows the vermiculated pattern on the feathers perfectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have recently returned from a trip to South Africa and specifically Cape Town, an exciting and interesting place for all sorts of reasons. The wildlife opportunities are immense and varied with a vast variety of birdlife. One bird that I found interesting and very approachable was the Cape Spurfowl or Cape Francolin Pternistis capensis. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":2192720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Cape-Spurfowl.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2995,2997,2549,2996,2998],"class_list":["post-32170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-cape-spurfowl","tag-cape-town","tag-charles-fleming","tag-pternistis-capensis","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32170","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\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}