{"id":3922,"date":"2013-07-23T21:25:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T13:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2013-07-29T21:27:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T13:27:59","slug":"farmers-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/23\/farmers-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130722-042.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3772\" alt=\"20130722 042\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130722-042-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130722-042-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130722-042.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The straw necked ibis (<em><i>Threskiornis spinicollis)\u00a0<\/i><\/em>is often called the farmers&#8217; friend as it gathers in large flocks to eat insects, particularly grasshoppers. \u00a0They are large birds up to about 75cm\/30&#8243; long and the male and females look similar. We have never had them on our property, possibly because our guinea fowl are doing such a good job on the grasshoppers. \u00a0For the last few days, there have been large flocks of them flying over on their way to the flooded lowland pastures at the foot of the Whicher Range. \u00a0 As well as insects, they eat frogs, small lizards and other reptiles. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdsinbackyards.net\/species\/Threskiornis-spinicollis\" target=\"_blank\">birds in backyard website<\/a> describes the difference between this and the Australian white ibis. &#8220;When flying, it has a white body and black wings, while the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdsinbackyards.net\/finder\/display.cfm?id=85\" rel=\"nofollow\">Australian White Ibis<\/a>\u00a0has a black head with white body and wings.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130722a-005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3790\" alt=\"20130722a 005\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130722a-005-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130722a-005-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130722a-005.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The straw necked ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis)\u00a0is often called the farmers&#8217; friend as it gathers in large flocks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3772,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130722-042.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3936,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions\/3936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}