{"id":8667,"date":"2016-11-23T19:12:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T18:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=8667"},"modified":"2016-11-23T19:12:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T18:12:14","slug":"swifts-do-stay-aloft-for-10-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=8667","title":{"rendered":"Swifts do stay aloft for 10 months!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proof that swifts (t\u00e5rnseiler) can stay in the air without landing for 10 months at a time has been announced and they can live for 20 years which means a single bird can fly 4 million miles in its lifetime! Astonishing! Below the link, a short video of birds divebombing my house responding to me playing swift calls to attract them to my nestbox!<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2110650-swifts-break-record-by-staying-aloft-for-10-months-at-a-time\/<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-8667-1\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MVI_7861_Swifts.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MVI_7861_Swifts.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MVI_7861_Swifts.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proof that swifts (t\u00e5rnseiler) can stay in the air without landing for 10 months at a time has been announced and they can live for 20 years which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1898],"class_list":["post-8667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-swifts"],"views":3440,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8669,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667\/revisions\/8669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}