{"id":7624,"date":"2019-09-25T22:52:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T03:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=7624"},"modified":"2019-10-22T15:02:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T20:02:45","slug":"and-the-winner-is-the-yellow-crowned-night-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=7624","title":{"rendered":"And The Winner Is: The Yellow-Crowned Night Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 25, 2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Audubon Society has announced the winner of the Bird of Houston contest. The winner, of course, is the Yellow-crowned Night Heron.<\/p>\n<p>The handsome heron beat out the Attwater&#8217;s Prairie Chicken in the final round for the win.<\/p>\n<p>You can read all about it on the <a href=\"https:\/\/houstonaudubon.org\/birding\/birdofhouston.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website of Houston Audubon<\/a>, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with <a href=\"https:\/\/houstonaudubon.org\/programs\/birdweek.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bird Week<\/a>, a week-long schedule of special bird events that continues through Saturday, Sept. 28.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3525\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/savebuffalobayoulogo-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3525\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/savebuffalobayoulogo-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/savebuffalobayoulogo-copy.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/savebuffalobayoulogo-copy-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Night Heron by Frank X. Tolbert 2. (Not actually a Yellow-crowned Night Heron but close.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 25, 2019 &nbsp; The Houston Audubon Society has announced the winner of the Bird of Houston contest. The winner, of course, is the Yellow-crowned Night Heron. The handsome heron beat out the Attwater&#8217;s Prairie Chicken in the final round for the win. You can read all about it on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7745,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624\/revisions\/7745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}