{"id":908,"date":"2014-06-19T20:16:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T12:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryap.wordpress.com\/?p=908"},"modified":"2014-06-19T20:16:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T12:16:09","slug":"spotted-nutcracker-in-bhutan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/19\/spotted-nutcracker-in-bhutan\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotted Nutcracker in Bhutan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spotted Nutcracker (<em>Nucifraga caryocatactes<\/em>) seems to have a wide range worldwide, and is pretty common within its range. But in tropical Singapore, we do not have the opportunity to see this species. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fryap.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/19\/spotted-nutcracker-in-bhutan\/spotted-nutcracker-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-987\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"987\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/19\/spotted-nutcracker-in-bhutan\/spotted-nutcracker-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/spotted-nutcracker-130429-107eos1d-fy1x3106.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;10&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Francis Yap&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D X&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Bhutan&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1367258876&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;700&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Spotted Nutcracker&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Spotted Nutcracker\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Bhutan&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/spotted-nutcracker-130429-107eos1d-fy1x3106-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/spotted-nutcracker-130429-107eos1d-fy1x3106-1024x683.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/fryap.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/spotted-nutcracker-130429-107eos1d-fy1x3106.jpg\" alt=\"Spotted Nutcracker\" width=\"625\" height=\"416\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/spotted-nutcracker-130429-107eos1d-fy1x3106.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/spotted-nutcracker-130429-107eos1d-fy1x3106-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/spotted-nutcracker-130429-107eos1d-fy1x3106-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/spotted-nutcracker-130429-107eos1d-fy1x3106-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was happy to see this particular bird at eye level, as my previous encounters were with birds high up in the tree. This bird was also high up, but I was in a monastery in the mountains and the tree where this bird was perched was below it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fryap.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/19\/spotted-nutcracker-in-bhutan\/spotted-nutcracker-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"986\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/19\/spotted-nutcracker-in-bhutan\/spotted-nutcracker-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/spotted-nutcracker-130502-107eos1d-fy1x7473.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Francis Yap&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D X&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Bhutan&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1367486825&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;700&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.02&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Spotted Nutcracker&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Spotted Nutcracker\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Bhutan&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/spotted-nutcracker-130502-107eos1d-fy1x7473-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/spotted-nutcracker-130502-107eos1d-fy1x7473-683x1024.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/fryap.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/spotted-nutcracker-130502-107eos1d-fy1x7473.jpg\" alt=\"Spotted Nutcracker\" width=\"625\" height=\"937\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/spotted-nutcracker-130502-107eos1d-fy1x7473.jpg 800w, https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/spotted-nutcracker-130502-107eos1d-fy1x7473-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/spotted-nutcracker-130502-107eos1d-fy1x7473-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/spotted-nutcracker-130502-107eos1d-fy1x7473-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This particular bird was perched on a unique looking branch, with hanging lichens (old man&#8217;s beard), which added much character to the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spotted Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes) seems to have a wide range worldwide, and is pretty common within its range. But in tropical Singapore, we do not have the opportunity to see this species. I was happy to see this particular bird at eye level, as my previous encounters were with birds high up in the [&hellip;]<\/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":[11,6,8,9],"tags":[30,193],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-nature","category-travel","category-wildlife","tag-bhutan","tag-spotted-nutcracker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}