{"id":571,"date":"2009-06-29T04:57:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T09:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/?p=571"},"modified":"2009-06-29T04:57:29","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T09:57:29","slug":"flycatcher-bahir-dar-ethiopia-june-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/flycatcher-bahir-dar-ethiopia-june-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Bee-Eater (Merops pusillus), Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, June 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Flycatcher, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, June 2009 by larkvi (on a research trip, checking rarely), on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/larkvi\/3654782198\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3633\/3654782198_09492c051b_o.jpg\" alt=\"Flycatcher, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, June 2009\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A flycatcher sits on a branch by lake Tana, patiently waiting for me to take its picture.<\/p>\n<p>This was identified for me as a Little Green Bee-Eater (Merops orientalis), but I have had a chance to look at <em>Birds of the Horn of Africa<\/em>, and the distribution for the Little Green Bee Eater is wrong, and the Green one has green, not yellow, at the throat. I think it is a Little Bee-Eater, Merops pusillus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flycatcher sits on a branch by lake Tana, patiently waiting for me to take its picture. This was identified for me as a Little Green Bee-Eater (Merops orientalis), but I have had a chance to look at Birds of the Horn of Africa, and the distribution for the Little Green Bee Eater is wrong, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/flycatcher-bahir-dar-ethiopia-june-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Little Bee-Eater (Merops pusillus), Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, June 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32,47,84,119,287,324,370,475,991],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-africa","tag-amhara","tag-bahir-dar","tag-bird","tag-ethiopia","tag-flycatcher","tag-green","tag-lake-tana","tag-yellow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}