{"id":8914,"date":"2013-05-10T12:49:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T03:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=8914"},"modified":"2013-05-28T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T07:31:08","slug":"bird-news-from-matt-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=8914","title":{"rendered":"Gageo Island, May 9: Ryukyu Minivet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bird News from Matt Poll<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On May 9th I spotted and photographed an odd-looking minivet that looked good for a <strong>Ryukyu Minivet<\/strong>.  After having the images looked at by several experts with experience of the species in Japan, the bird was confirmed as a male <strong>Ryukyu Minivet<\/strong>, which would make it (possibly?) the first properly documented sighting for this species in the ROK.  The bird was re-sighted and photographed on May 12th by several other birders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?attachment_id=8921\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8921\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Ryukyu-Minivet-622x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-8921\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Ryukyu Minivet<\/strong> <em>Pericrocotus tegimae<\/em>, \u00a9 Matt Poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Matt Poll On May 9th I spotted and photographed an odd-looking minivet that looked good for a Ryukyu Minivet. After having the images looked at by several experts with experience of the species in Japan, the bird &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=8914\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[253,594],"class_list":["post-8914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-gageo","tag-ryukyu-minivet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9049,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions\/9049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}