{"id":55494,"date":"2014-02-23T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=b14613fb4981425a3c03c594f4926ea5"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:40:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:40:42","slug":"call-of-the-spurfowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/call-of-the-spurfowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of the Spurfowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are very few things that affirm to you that you are in the bush and you need to wake up to go on a game drive as pleasantly as the morning call of the Swainson’s Spurfowl. This call evokes endless memories of trips to the Kruger National Park and surrounds in me, and I’m sure many of you too. This bird is actually a francolin, and can be found all over Southern Africa. This particular photo was taken early one morning close to the Satara rest camp in the Kruger National Park.<\/p>\n

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Techs for this shot: Nikon D300s | Nikkor 200-400mm | f4 VR @ 340mmf5.6 | 1\/400 SS | ISO-500<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

If you want to learn how to improve your bird photography, check out the new series I am busy posting over on the Wild Eye blog:<\/p>\n

For the Birds – Part 1For the Birds – Part 2<\/p>\n

Now I feel the need to go on safari…darnit! Don’t you?<\/p>\n

Morkel Erasmus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are very few things that affirm to you that you are in the bush and you need to wake up to go on a game drive as pleasantly as the morning call of the Swainson’s Spurfowl. This call evokes endless memories of trips to the Kruger National Park and surrounds in me, and I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":2147719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1958,770,1043,2623,1961,3777,5427],"class_list":["post-55494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-bird-photography","tag-kruger","tag-kruger-national-park","tag-morkel-erasmus","tag-nikon-d300","tag-southern-africa","tag-swainsons-spurfowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55494","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\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}