{"id":13087,"date":"2012-11-21T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/is-this-the-worlds-rarest-bird\/"},"modified":"2012-11-21T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T12:44:00","slug":"is-this-the-worlds-rarest-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/11\/is-this-the-worlds-rarest-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the world&#8217;s rarest bird?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div>\n<h2>Amsterdam Albatross<\/h2>\n<p><i>19-11-2012<\/i><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Amsterdam Albatross\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heritage-expeditions.com\/media\/uploads\/trip_folders\/subantarctic_voyages_\/1262_heard_island\/%28c%29_m_kelly_amsterdam_albatross.jpg\" title=\"Amsterdam Albatross\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p>After many days at sea we were delighted to have a very rare visitor.  This Amsterdam Albatross circled the ship for 2 hours as we sheltered  from a westerly storm in the lee of Amsterdam Island. There are only  about 140 of these birds in the world and they all nest on this island  and remain in the Indian Ocean. Our male visitor came close enough for  us to read the band number on his leg and through this we were able to  access his life history from the French researchers on Amsterdam Island.  Fascinating!<\/p>\n<p>Source: http:\/\/www.heritage-expeditions.com\/captains-blog\/ <\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amsterdam Albatross 19-11-2012 After many days at sea we were delighted to have a very rare visitor. This Amsterdam Albatross circled the ship for 2 hours as we sheltered from a westerly storm in the lee of Amsterdam Island. There are only about 140 of these birds in the world and they all nest on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[332],"class_list":["post-13087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-heritage-expeditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}