{"id":13509,"date":"2011-04-02T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T07:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=13509"},"modified":"2011-04-07T00:47:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T07:47:43","slug":"birds-of-curacao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13509","title":{"rendered":"Birds of Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not much of an expert on birds, but I enjoy photographing them when I see them .\u00a0 Unfortunately, I know even less about how to photograph birds than I do about the birds themselves .\u00a0 Nonetheless, I&#8217;m determined to learn .\u00a0 In Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao, I saw a Greater Flamingo (Chogogo in the Papiamento language of Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao), a Bananaquit (Barika hel in Papiamento) hiding in the shrubbery, a Tropical Mockingbird (Chuchubi in Papiamento), and an incredible 3-D chalk painting with two Troupials (Trupial in Papiamento) and another unknown bird .\u00a0 Whatever you do, try not to fall into the painting!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Flamingo-with-Landscape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13510\" title=\"Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Flamingo-with-Landscape.jpg\" alt=\"Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Flamingo-with-Landscape.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Flamingo-with-Landscape-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Flamingo-with-Landscape-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Greater Flamingo (<em>Phoenicopterus ruber<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Greater Flamingo (<em>Phoenicopterus ruber<\/em>) (Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 28 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Bananaquit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13511\" title=\"Bananaquit (Coreba flaveola)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Bananaquit.jpg\" alt=\"Bananaquit (Coreba flaveola)\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Bananaquit.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Bananaquit-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Bananaquit-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bananaquit (<em>Coreba flaveola<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Bananaquit (<em>Coreba flaveola<\/em>) (Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 28 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Chuchubi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13512\" title=\"Tropical Mockingbird (Mimus gilvus)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Chuchubi.jpg\" alt=\"Tropical Mockingbird (Mimus gilvus)\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Chuchubi.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Chuchubi-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Chuchubi-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tropical Mockingbird (<em>Mimus gilvus<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Tropical Mockingbird (<em>Mimus gilvus<\/em>) (Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 28 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/3-D-Street-Art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13513\" title=\"3-D Street Art with Troupials (Icterus icterus)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/3-D-Street-Art.jpg\" alt=\"3-D Street Art with Troupials (Icterus icterus)\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/3-D-Street-Art.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/3-D-Street-Art-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/3-D-Street-Art-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">3-D Street Art with Troupials (<em>Icterus icterus<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a03-D Street Art with Troupials (<em>Icterus icterus<\/em>) (Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 28 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not much of an expert on birds, but I enjoy photographing them when I see them .\u00a0 Unfortunately, I know even less about how to photograph birds than I do about the birds themselves .\u00a0 Nonetheless, I&#8217;m determined to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13509\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[273],"class_list":["post-13509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-caribbean-vacation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-3vT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13516,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13509\/revisions\/13516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}