{"id":47,"date":"2018-01-25T04:54:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T04:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/?p=47"},"modified":"2018-01-25T04:54:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T04:54:04","slug":"bird-of-the-week-galah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/2018\/01\/25\/bird-of-the-week-galah\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird of the week &#8211; Galah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">This week\u2019s bird of the week is one you just can\u2019t miss around here. They are everywhere, and noisy, as attested by the video link.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/g6QFtFnEOh4\">Galah action<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Galahs are in the cockatoo family and unmistakable with their pink chests and boisterous behavior. Although they pair up for life, they also form noisy bands of a dozen or so, or even dozens in the evening or the morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48\" src=\"http:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5483-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5483-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5483-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5483-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5483.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5498-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5498-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5498-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5498-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5498.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Most of the photos here were taken by Deb and I in the Narrandera Koala Reserve, back when these birds were an exotic novelty. Now we have seen them everywhere from the countryside to the city, but still you can\u2019t help but take note of them because they are so eye catching and noisy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5490-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5490-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5490-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5490-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Indeed, according to my research the galah is among the most abundant parrots found all over Australia. We are about to head north here to Queensland, so we\u2019ll have to see how many galahs are in the tropical north. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5849-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5849-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5849-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_5849-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s bird of the week is one you just can\u2019t miss around here. They are everywhere, and noisy, as attested by the video link. Galah action Galahs are in the cockatoo family and unmistakable with their pink chests and boisterous behavior. Although they pair up for life, they also form noisy bands of a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/2018\/01\/25\/bird-of-the-week-galah\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bird of the week &#8211; Galah&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}