{"id":41958,"date":"2013-07-08T11:01:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T10:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=41958"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:31:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:31:36","slug":"the-gorgeous-orange-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/the-gorgeous-orange-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gorgeous Orange Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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The beautiful male Orange Bishop<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

The male Northern Red Bishop or Orange Bishop is a gorgeous little weaver, native to the sub Sahara Desert, Africa. From Wikipedia: The Northern Red Bishop displays prominently, singing high-pitched squeaks from tall grass, puffing out his feathers or performing a slow hovering display flight. It builds a spherical woven nest in tall grass.<\/p>\n

As most of you may know, I live in Irvine, California…nowhere near Africa. So why did I sight this little fellow here? I don’t know. I asked one of our local Audubon leaders and she believes that this was a captive exotic that either escaped or was set free. Or perhaps, as I suspect, he just has a very, very poor sense of direction. Either way, he is a magnificent bird and I hope to see him around again soon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Orange Bishop<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Orange Bishop<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The male Northern Red Bishop or Orange Bishop is a gorgeous little weaver, native to the sub Sahara Desert, Africa. From Wikipedia: The Northern Red Bishop displays prominently, singing high-pitched squeaks from tall grass, puffing out his feathers or performing a slow hovering display flight. It builds a spherical woven nest in tall grass. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":2193056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Orange-Bishop-11.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2195,2196,1001,4931],"class_list":["post-41958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-northern-red-bishop","tag-orange-bishop","tag-paul-marto","tag-weavers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41958","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2193056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}