{"id":68655,"date":"2016-04-25T04:35:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T02:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/her-majesty\/"},"modified":"2016-04-25T04:35:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T02:35:01","slug":"her-majesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/her-majesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Majesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Her Majesty<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"North West South Africa\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2681\/4072142039_c49244d60a.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Image by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/43123905@N06\/4072142039\">bzd1<\/a><\/i><br \/>\nThe White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae, breeding in the warmer parts of Europe (north to Estonia), northwest Africa, and southwest Asia (east to southern Kazakhstan). It is a strong migrant, wintering mainly in tropical Africa, down to the south of South Africa, and also in the Indian subcontinent.<\/p>\n<p>It is a huge bird, 100-125 cm (40-50 in.) tall, with a 155-200 cm (61-79 in) wingspan and a weight of 2.3-4.5 kg (5-10 lbs). It is completely white except for the black wing flight feathers, and its red bill and legs, which are black on juveniles. It walks slowly and steadily on the ground. Like all storks with the exception of the Leptoptilos genus, it flies with its neck outstretched.<\/p>\n<p>There are two subspecies (HBW):<\/p>\n<p>Ciconia ciconia ciconia Linnaeus, 1758. Europe, northwest Africa, westernmost Asia; wintering in Africa.<br \/>\nCiconia ciconia asiatica Severtsov, 1873. West-central Asia; wintering in India.<br \/>\nThe Oriental White Stork (Ciconia boyciana), now regarded as a distinct species, was formerly treated as a subspecies of the White Stork.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis <em>North West South Africa<\/em> image was automatically curated and published with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wprobot.net\/?ref=578\" target=\"_blank\">WP Robot<\/a> plugin &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wprobot.net\/?ref=578\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to learn more about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wprobot.net\/?ref=578\" target=\"_blank\">WP Robot for WordPress<\/a> &#8211; a massive time and money saver.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCgzgeTm3pKPjkFy4WHrH8xA\">Visit the MyPE YouTube Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her Majesty Image by bzd1 The White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae, breeding in the warmer parts of Europe (north to Estonia), northwest Africa, and southwest Asia (east to southern Kazakhstan). It is a strong migrant, wintering mainly in tropical Africa, down to the south of South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9014],"tags":[13481],"class_list":{"0":"post-68655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-images","7":"tag-majesty","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}