{"id":3483,"date":"2017-11-02T11:02:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2017-11-21T09:57:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:57:02","slug":"ardeidae-ardea-alba-great-egret-st-marks-national-wildlife-refuge-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/2017\/11\/02\/ardeidae-ardea-alba-great-egret-st-marks-national-wildlife-refuge-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Egret | FL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/about-david-allio\/about-david-allio\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/photography\/2017\/great-egret-ardea-alba-2017fl816610.jpg\" title=\"Ardeidae Ardea alba Great Egret St Marks National Wildlife Refuge Walkulla County Florida\" alt=\"Ardeidae Ardea alba Great Egret St Marks National Wildlife Refuge Walkulla County Florida\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Great Egret<\/em> <small>&#8211; St Marks National Wildlife Refuge<\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#34;Great Egrets <em>Ardea alba<\/em> were hunted nearly to extinction for their plumes in the late nineteenth century, sparking conservation movements and some of the first laws to protect birds. The <em>Great Egret<\/em> is the symbol of the <a href=https:\/\/www.audubon.org target=_blank>National Audubon Society<\/a>, one of the oldest environmental organizations in North America. Audubon was founded to protect birds from being killed for their feathers.&#34;<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<hr size=1 width=69%><\/center><small><sup>1<\/sup> <em>Great Egret.<\/em> Identification, <a  href=https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org target=_blank>All About Birds<\/a> &#8211; Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Web. 09 Apr. 2017.<\/small><center><\/p>\n<hr size=1 width=69%><\/center><small>camera: <b>Nikon D3<\/b> | lens: <b>AF Nikkor VR 400mm f\/2.8G IF-ED<\/b><br \/>focal length: 400mm | exposure: f\/5 &#8211; 1\/4000th second &#8211; ISO 500<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ardeidae Ardea alba Great Egret St Marks National Wildlife Refuge Walkulla County Florida photography by David Allio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1050,233,433,1051,1049],"tags":[772,909,940,386],"class_list":["post-3483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ardea-alba","category-ornithology-bird","category-fl-florida","category-great-egret","category-st-marks-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-bird-photography","tag-photography-exposure-data","tag-fl-florida","tag-nikon-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p21yji-Ub","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3606,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions\/3606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}