{"id":113326,"date":"2015-03-12T01:30:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz\/videos\/?p=113326"},"modified":"2015-03-07T11:31:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T22:31:08","slug":"flocks-of-starlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidsvids.co.nz\/?p=113326","title":{"rendered":"Flocks of starlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utrecht, The Netherlands. These dense concentrations of birds are thought to be a defence against attacks by birds of prey such as peregrine falcons or Eurasian sparrow hawks. Flocks form a tight sphere-like formation in flight, frequently expanding and contracting and changing shape, seemingly without any sort of leader. Each common starling changes its course and speed as a result of the movement of its closest neighbours.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"h2AOsRS1jmk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wonders in the Sky\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h2AOsRS1jmk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utrecht, The Netherlands. These dense concentrations of birds are thought to be a defence against attacks by birds of prey such as peregrine falcons or Eurasian sparrow hawks. Flocks form a tight sphere-like formation in flight, frequently expanding and contracting and changing shape, seemingly without any sort of leader. Each common starling changes its course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidsvids.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidsvids.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidsvids.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidsvids.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidsvids.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kidsvids.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113328,"href":"https:\/\/kidsvids.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113326\/revisions\/113328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidsvids.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidsvids.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidsvids.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidsvids.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}