{"id":23340,"date":"2018-05-01T07:53:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T14:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23340"},"modified":"2018-05-01T07:53:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T14:53:17","slug":"airfreight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23340","title":{"rendered":"Airfreight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By being able to fly, birds have an unparalleled ability to move from place to place. But, can they carry luggage along with them?<\/p>\n<p>Birds have few options: carry something with their feet; carry it in their bills or gullets. Alas, only some birds have bills or feet suitable for transporting things even a short distance. Raptors are perhaps the most versatile.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I watched two different raptors fly material from one place to another.<\/p>\n<p>This is a female Kestrel, and she is carrying a vole in her claws. She took it to a tree branch and ate it. On previous occasions, I have seen a Kestrel carry beetles and other birds in its bill when it was feeding its chicks.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23342\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/kestrel180430as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Osprey is doing double duty by carrying both a stick and a fish to its nest.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23341\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/osprey180430s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By being able to fly, birds have an unparalleled ability to move from place to place. But, can they carry luggage along with them? Birds have few options: carry something with their feet; carry it in their bills or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23340\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23340"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23352,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23340\/revisions\/23352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}