{"id":110,"date":"2009-05-28T16:58:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T15:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2009-05-28T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T16:09:00","slug":"nearly-mature-male-20090528-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"(Nearly) Mature Male Epaulet Skimmer 20090528-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/3572851467\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2243\/3572851467_4039e35731.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/3572851467\/\">(Nearly)-Mature-Male-20090528-2<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/quinta\/\">Paradise in Portugal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>This was one species that took me by surprise. The Epaulet Skimmer&#8217;s main habitat is in north Africa, and though known in the Iberian Peninsula, I had no idea they&#8217;d be as abundant as they proved to be today. Every time we approached the water they seemed to be there, mostly, like the one pictured here, immature males &#8211; though this is so nearly mature it makes little difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Nearly)-Mature-Male-20090528-2, originally uploaded by Paradise in Portugal. This was one species that took me by surprise. The Epaulet Skimmer&#8217;s main habitat is in north Africa, and though known in the Iberian Peninsula, I had no idea they&#8217;d be as abundant as they proved to be today. Every time we approached the water they seemed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[60,65],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dragonflies-and-damselflies","tag-dragonflies","tag-epaulet-skimmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}