{"id":2259,"date":"2013-04-13T08:07:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T12:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahnicholls.wordpress.com\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2020-06-17T17:15:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T17:15:02","slug":"delalandes-coucal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com\/?p=2259","title":{"rendered":"Delalande&#8217;s Coucal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/coucal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2684\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/coucal-826x1024.jpg\" alt=\"coucal\" width=\"714\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/coucal-826x1024.jpg 826w, https:\/\/www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/coucal-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/a>He was from Madagascar. He was also\u00a0known as a\u00a0<b>Snail-eating Coucal.\u00a0<\/b>He liked eating land snails, as his name implies.\u00a0It only was known to science as a living bird for a very short time in the 19th century. Life got difficult quickly: its habitat was destroyed by deforestation, it had to compete for food with non-native invasive black rats, and it was hunted by non-native introduced cats. It was the second-largest coucal around, and pretty spectacular, and therefore pretty sought after as a museum piece. It was gone by the end of the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">He was from Madagascar. He was also\u00a0known as a\u00a0Snail-eating Coucal.\u00a0He liked eating land snails, as his name implies.\u00a0It only was known to science as a living bird for a very short time in the 19th century. Life got difficult quickly: its habitat was destroyed by deforestation, it had to compete for food with non-native invasive black rats, and it was&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com\/?p=2259\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,40,41,9,31],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","tag-bird","tag-coucal","tag-cuckoo","tag-drawing","tag-ink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3153,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/3153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldguidetoextinctbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}