{"id":5606,"date":"2013-12-15T11:58:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T03:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=5606"},"modified":"2013-12-27T15:15:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T07:15:46","slug":"square-tailed-kite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/15\/square-tailed-kite\/","title":{"rendered":"Square-Tailed Kite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215-048.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5558\" alt=\"20131215 048\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215-048-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215-048-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215-048.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This beauty looked like she was posing for me, circling high over the house. \u00a0 It was good that it came overhead as its defining features &#8211; clearly barred \u00a0primaries or &#8220;fingertips&#8221;, downward pointing whitish head, and barred tail with dark tip \u00a0&#8211; were clearly visible. \u00a0 The Square-Tailed Kite (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdlife.org.au\/bird-profile\/square-tailed-kite\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lophoictinia isura<\/em><\/a>) is found throughout Australia but with the population estimated to be under 7,000 it is listed as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environment.nsw.gov.au\/threatenedspeciesapp\/profile.aspx?id=10495\" target=\"_blank\">vulnerable in the New South Wales<\/a>. \u00a0 Its wings span to about 1.4m (5&#8242;) and is about the same size as the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/26\/not-so-little-eagle\/\">Little Eagle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This beauty looked like she was posing for me, circling high over the house. \u00a0 It was good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215-048.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606"}],"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=5606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5607,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions\/5607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}