{"id":428,"date":"2013-12-01T14:31:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T04:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/?p=428"},"modified":"2013-12-01T14:31:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T04:31:33","slug":"sacred-kingfisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Kingfisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacred Kingfisher &#8211; <em>Todiramphus sanctus<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-429 aligncenter\" alt=\"Sacred Kingfisher\" src=\"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SacredKingfisher-30Nov2013-single.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SacredKingfisher-30Nov2013-single.jpg 450w, http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SacredKingfisher-30Nov2013-single-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new visitor to our backyard. This lovely kingfisher swooped down for a dip in the pool 3 times before sitting on our &#8220;bird tree&#8221; to preen and dry off. We were treated to some bird song and watched him\/her dive to the ground for a worm before flying off.<\/p>\n<p>Some quick research identified our bird as the Sacred Kingfisher \u00a0(<em>Todiramphus sanctus).\u00a0<\/em>It has a turquoise back and a turquoise blue rump and tail. The underside is a buff\/white colour. \u00a0He looks like he is wearing a cream coloured collar and has a distinctive black stripe from beak across the eye to the back of the head. The top of the head is also turquoise and there is a buff patch at his beak in front of the eye. A very pretty bird.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sacred-Kingfisher-30Nov2013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-432\" alt=\"Sacred Kingfisher Set\" src=\"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sacred-Kingfisher-30Nov2013.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sacred-Kingfisher-30Nov2013.jpg 900w, http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sacred-Kingfisher-30Nov2013-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Luckily the Kingfisher stayed around long enough to grab some quick pictures and movie footage from a distance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/backyard-sacred-kingfisher5.mp4\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/m1.png\" width=\"29\" height=\"25\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0See Movie Clip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacred Kingfisher &#8211; Todiramphus sanctus A new visitor to our backyard. This lovely kingfisher swooped down for a dip in the pool 3 times before sitting on our &#8220;bird tree&#8221; to preen and dry off. We were treated to some bird song and watched him\/her dive to the ground for a worm before flying off. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mybackyard.info\/backyardblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}