{"id":1317,"date":"2011-03-05T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/05\/best-rare-bird-photos-of-2011-national-geographic\/"},"modified":"2011-03-05T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:18:00","slug":"best-rare-bird-photos-of-2011-national-geographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/05\/best-rare-bird-photos-of-2011-national-geographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Rare Bird Photos of 2011: National Geographic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/LBSEgeaJZB0\/best-rare-bird-photo.html\">Best Rare Bird Photos of 2011: National Geographic<\/a>: &#8220;<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/img\/rare-birds-photo-contest-kakapo_32641_600x450.jpg?w=600\" ><\/p>\n<p>Marilyn Terrell  of National Geographic tells Boing Boing,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Japanese red-crowned crane flailing in midair to impress a mate and  a pair of orange-bellied parrots (fewer than 150 left) on a branch in Tasmania are some of the strikingly beautiful images of avian rarities among the winners in the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2011\/02\/pictures\/110228-best-pictures-worlds-rarest-birds-ibis-owl-crane-parrot\/#\/rare-birds-photo-contest-red-crowned-crane_32629_600x450.jpg\">first annual World&#8217;s Rarest Birds international photo competition.<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Above, photo by Shane McInnes: the extremely rare kakapo of  New Zealand.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<br \/>This picture of the large, flightless bird approaching the camera snagged first place in the &#8216;critically endangered or extinct in the wild&#8217; category. Only 124 animals remain in the wild&#8211;the species has been largely wiped out by introduced predatory mammals such as feral cats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2011\/02\/pictures\/110228-best-pictures-worlds-rarest-birds-ibis-owl-crane-parrot\/#\/rare-birds-photo-contest-kakapo_32641_600x450.jpg\"><br \/>View the whole gallery here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=77ecf7309bf3141ba6a2c4cd96d2fa7c&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=77ecf7309bf3141ba6a2c4cd96d2fa7c&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/segment-pixel.invitemedia.com\/pixel?code=TechCons&#038;partnerID=167&#038;key=segment\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?resize=0%2C0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/LBSEgeaJZB0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Rare Bird Photos of 2011: National Geographic: &#8220; Marilyn Terrell of National Geographic tells Boing Boing, A Japanese red-crowned crane flailing in midair to impress a mate and a pair of orange-bellied parrots (fewer than 150 left) on a branch in Tasmania are some of the strikingly beautiful images of avian rarities among the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-lf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}