{"id":4905,"date":"2014-07-05T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T19:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2014-07-05T14:48:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T19:48:56","slug":"ten-swallow-tailed-kites-on-a-communal-roost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2014\/ten-swallow-tailed-kites-on-a-communal-roost","title":{"rendered":"Ten Swallow-Tailed Kites on a Communal Roost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/other\/swallow-tailed-kites14\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4906\" alt=\"swallow-tailed-kites\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/swallow-tailed-kites.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/swallow-tailed-kites.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/swallow-tailed-kites-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/swallow-tailed-kites-194x250.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Out on the lake a little after dawn this morning, looked over and there they were&#8230; \u00a0<strong>Swallow-Tailed Kites!<\/strong> \u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/other\/swallow-tailed-kites14\/\" target=\"_blank\">gallery<\/a>]\u00a0I rushed back to get my camera thinking they&#8217;d fly away. More than an hour later I left them still preening and relaxing. I took photos until my arms got tired from holding the camera. I was surprised to see so many together, but apparently they can be quite social, sharing <a href=\"http:\/\/research.myfwc.com\/engine\/download_redirection_process.asp?file=98meyer_1332.pdf&amp;objid=49178&amp;dltype=publication\" target=\"_blank\">communal roosts<\/a> near areas with lots of food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out on the lake a little after dawn this morning, looked over and there they were&#8230; \u00a0Swallow-Tailed Kites! \u00a0[gallery]\u00a0I rushed back to get my camera thinking they&#8217;d fly away. More than an hour later I left them still preening and relaxing. I took photos until my arms got tired from holding the camera. I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2014\/ten-swallow-tailed-kites-on-a-communal-roost\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ten Swallow-Tailed Kites on a Communal Roost&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4910,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/4910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}