{"id":20598,"date":"2018-03-09T19:44:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T10:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=20598"},"modified":"2018-03-09T19:44:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T10:44:47","slug":"little-owls-in-pyongyang-march-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=20598","title":{"rendered":"Little Owls in Pyongyang: March 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Little Owl<\/strong> <em>Athene noctua plumipes<\/em> is a scarce species in the southern provinces of Korea. However, the species appears to be rather more widespread in the northern provinces, especially in the west, with recent records from e.g. central Pyongyang (where nesting was documented in 2014 by John O&#8217;Dea: <em>BirdingAsia<\/em> 22: 113), Mundok, and on the road between Pyongyang and Wonsan.<\/p>\n<p>Images of a pair taken on March 9th by Bushra Rahman in the diplomatic compound suggest that the species is again preparing to nest in Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20595 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Little-owl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Little-owl.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Little-owl-132x150.jpg 132w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Little-owl-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Little-owl-768x873.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20596 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Little-owl-3-1024x965.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Little-owl-3-1024x965.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Little-owl-3-150x141.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Little-owl-3-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Little-owl-3-768x723.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Little-owl-3.jpg 1449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/>Pair of <strong>Little Owl<\/strong>, March 9 2018, Pyongyang \u00a9 Bushra Rahman<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Little Owl Athene noctua plumipes is a scarce species in the southern provinces of Korea. However, the species appears to be rather more widespread in the northern provinces, especially in the west, with recent records from e.g. central Pyongyang &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=20598\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":20599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[957,888],"class_list":["post-20598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-little-owl","tag-pyongyang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20602,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20598\/revisions\/20602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}