{"id":1101,"date":"2017-05-27T18:07:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T23:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2017-05-27T18:07:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T23:07:01","slug":"bhutan-birds-april-2017-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/?p=1101","title":{"rendered":"Bhutan Birds &#8212; April, 2017     &#8212;-     Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">One of the rarest species in the world is the White-bellied Heron.\u00a0 It has been a few years since any of these have been seen on the Vent tour, but this year, with help from others in the Bird Guide fraternity, we found one feeding along the river not far from our campground.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it was a long way off so the picture of this <strong>White-bellied Heron<\/strong> is not especially good, but I include it merely because of the rarity of the bird.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hornbills, those amazing creatures, were fairly common.\u00a0 The most numerous were the <strong>Rufous-necked Hornbills<\/strong>.\u00a0 Odd looking and fun to see.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Common around our campground were <strong>Great Hornbills<\/strong>, but not quite as approachable as the Rufous-necked Hornbills.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_3_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_4_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This installment seems to focus on some of the large birds, so let\u2019s continue with that theme.<\/p>\n<p>This <strong>Himalayan Griffon<\/strong> appeared to be ill or injured in some way, although it did fly away.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_5_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I published my pheasant blog, I overlooked a photo of a <strong>Kalij Pheasant<\/strong> so here it is now.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not as colorful as the other pheasants seen on this trip.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_6_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yellow-billed Blue Magpies<\/strong> were numerous.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_7_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pin-tailed Green Pigeons<\/strong> enjoyed the fruits of one of the early fruiting mountain trees.\u00a0<i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>ngg_shortcode_8_placeholder<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The next Bhutan installment will feature a few of the more colorful small birds, including some stunning Sunbirds and an even more stunning Silver-eared Mesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the rarest species in the world is the White-bellied Heron.\u00a0 It has been a few years since any of these have been seen on the Vent tour, but this year, with help from others in the Bird Guide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/?p=1101\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-international-birding","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}