{"id":303,"date":"2004-07-07T12:03:05","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T19:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/303"},"modified":"2004-07-07T12:03:05","modified_gmt":"2004-07-07T19:03:05","slug":"the-wild-parrots-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/303","title":{"rendered":"The Wild Parrots of London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently England has an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/education\/3869815.stm\">increasingly large parrot population<\/a>. Burgeoning Budgies so to speak. (I should have resisted, shouldn&#8217;t I?)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The number of wild parrots living in England is rising at 30% per year, says an Oxford University research project.<\/p>\n<p>Parks and gardens in the leafy London suburbs have been adopted as a preferred habitat by birds that are native to southern Asia.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThere have been reports that there could now be 20,000 wild parrots, including parakeets, living in England, with the largest concentration around London and the South East.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I would never, never, never have guessed England to become home to wild parrots.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me imagine a strange future where explorers adventure over to England, long abandoned for whatever reason, and discover it to be filled with wild parrots. <\/p>\n<p>Imagine trying to explain how they evolved there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently England has an increasingly large parrot population. Burgeoning Budgies so to speak. (I should have resisted, shouldn&#8217;t I?) The number of wild parrots living in England is rising at 30% per year, says an Oxford University research project. Parks and gardens in the leafy London suburbs have been adopted as a preferred habitat by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-health-nature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-4T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}