{"id":1030,"date":"2014-06-16T21:02:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T13:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryap.wordpress.com\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2014-06-16T21:02:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T13:02:14","slug":"bush-stone-curlew-of-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/16\/bush-stone-curlew-of-queensland\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Stone-curlew of Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bush Stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius<\/em>) is a endemic bird of Australia. It is rather large, ground dwelling nocturnal bird. At night it hunts for small animals and insects.<\/p>\n

I first saw this bird at night in a beach resort on a trip to Queensland, Australia in September 2012. It stayed motionless as I neared it. A pretty eerie sight. Apparently they hunt for small animals and insects in the night.<\/p>\n

\"Bush<\/a><\/p>\n

Early next morning, a few were seen gathered next to a building and a few wandered off to the lawn of the said building. They will walk quickly, and then suddenly stop motionless. A rather peculiar behaviour. <\/p>\n

\"Bush<\/a><\/p>\n

They seem very confiding, although the fact that they were in a beach resort had something to do with it. <\/p>\n

\"Bush<\/a><\/p>\n

A close-up of it’s head. This is an uncropped picture, showing how very close I was to the bird, without it even moving a muscle.<\/p>\n

Later in the day, they were gone. I did see one hiding in a dense bush, so their survival skill is still present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bush Stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius) is a endemic bird of Australia. It is rather large, ground dwelling nocturnal bird. At night it hunts for small animals and insects. I first saw this bird at night in a beach resort on a trip to Queensland, Australia in September 2012. It stayed motionless as I neared it. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,9],"tags":[22,49,165],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-travel","category-wildlife","tag-australia","tag-bush-stone-curlew","tag-queensland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}