{"id":26254,"date":"2012-07-12T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=26254"},"modified":"2012-07-11T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T16:30:39","slug":"morning-eye-candy-you-gotta-let-me-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/07\/wildlife\/morning-eye-candy-you-gotta-let-me-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: You Gotta Let Me Fly!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peahen sighted! The subdued colors of the female aren&#8217;t so easily recognizable as the flamboyant frill of the male peacock, but the slight tinges of blue-green color (not to mention those Dr. Seuss-esque head feathers) should give her away.<\/p>\n<p>What few realize is that these birds really <em>can<\/em> fly, though they&#8217;re often kept in open-air aviaries&#8211;it&#8217;s just easier to stay put than leave a reliable food source. Another fact, somewhat more hilarious: peacocks are used as &#8220;guard dogs&#8221; by some, as they have a tendency to let out deafening squawks at the approach of strangers. Just don&#8217;t expect them to tackle an intruder with any efficacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Peahen.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"26255\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/07\/wildlife\/morning-eye-candy-you-gotta-let-me-fly\/attachment\/mec-peahen\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Peahen.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1446\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1341479491&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Peahen\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Peahen-300x216.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Peahen-1024x740.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-26255\" title=\"Peahen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Peahen-1024x740.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Peahen-1024x740.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Peahen-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Peahen.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t mind the recent peafowl sightings. She eats the bugs, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":26255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[952,146,34],"tags":[1512,2645,2647,2646,4619],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Peahen.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-6Ps","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26258,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26254\/revisions\/26258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}