{"id":4428,"date":"2010-07-24T20:09:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T18:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2010-07-25T09:36:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T07:36:58","slug":"hamerkop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/24\/hamerkop\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamerkop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this bird. It seems to be right out of the illustrations of a XIXth Century book about prehistoric wildlife (and it&#8217;s the only living species of the genus <em>Scopus<\/em>). I love its name. It seems a near impossibility (that&#8217;s probably why there are so many other possible names like Hammerkop, Hammerkopf, Hammerhead, Hammerhead Stork, Umbrette, Umber Bird, Tufted Umber, or Anvilhead).<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=2><figure id=\"attachment_4429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4429\" style=\"width: 346px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC3705w-Ombrette.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC3705w-Ombrette-346x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Hamerkop\" title=\"_DSC3705w - Hamerkop\" width=\"346\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4429\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hamerkop<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><figure id=\"attachment_4430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4430\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC3687w-Ombrette.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC3687w-Ombrette-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"Hamerkop\" title=\"_DSC3687w - Hamerkop\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4430\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hamerkop<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<td><figure id=\"attachment_4431\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4431\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC3690w-Ombrette.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC3690w-Ombrette-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Hamerkop\" title=\"_DSC3690w - Hamerkop\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC3690w-Ombrette-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC3690w-Ombrette-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC3690w-Ombrette-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC3690w-Ombrette-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC3690w-Ombrette.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hamerkop<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Hamerkop (<em>Scopus umbretta<\/em>), Ombrette.<br \/>\nMoremi National Park, Botswana, May 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this bird. It seems to be right out of the illustrations of a XIXth Century book about prehistoric wildlife (and it&#8217;s the only living species of the genus Scopus). I love its name. It seems a near impossibility (that&#8217;s probably why there are so many other possible names like Hammerkop, Hammerkopf, Hammerhead, Hammerhead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,32,19],"tags":[1204,1233,2247],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-photo","category-photo-safari","tag-botswana","tag-hamerkop","tag-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}