{"id":1116,"date":"2009-12-18T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2009-12-08T15:14:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T19:14:16","slug":"lilac-breasted-roller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/2009\/12\/18\/lilac-breasted-roller\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilac Breasted Roller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the prettiest birds we saw during our trip was the national bird of Botswana, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lilac-breasted_Roller\" target=\"_blank\">Lilac Breasted Roller<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lilac-breasted_Roller\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>In fact, I could not stop taking pictures of it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mashatu:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/4006849965\/\" title=\"img_6356 by sgetgood, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2454\/4006849965_430abee69c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"img_6356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/4007617406\/\" title=\"img_6357 by sgetgood, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2478\/4007617406_efe91bc274.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"img_6357\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/4007705478\/\" title=\"img_6474 by sgetgood, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2567\/4007705478_977bc56222.jpg\" width=\"454\" height=\"500\" alt=\"img_6474\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Mala Mala: <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/4040951580\/\" title=\"MM_Sep22_0018 by sgetgood, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2593\/4040951580_b852a0b829.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"MM_Sep22_0018\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This pair of Lilac Breasted Rollers was clearly nesting in this tree on the lawn at Mala Mala. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/4041194638\/\" title=\"MM2_Sep22_0009 by sgetgood, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3527\/4041194638_336cde765b.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"MM2_Sep22_0009\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On our very last day, as we were waiting to leave for the airstrip, I managed to get a photo of one in flight. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/4169131223\/\" title=\"Lilac Breaster Roller in Flight by sgetgood, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2555\/4169131223_34ef0fc426.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"439\" alt=\"Lilac Breaster Roller in Flight\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the prettiest birds we saw during our trip was the national bird of Botswana, the Lilac Breasted Roller.\u00a0 In fact, I could not stop taking pictures of it. Mashatu: Mala Mala: This pair of Lilac Breasted Rollers was clearly nesting in this tree on the lawn at Mala Mala. On our very last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,146,126,130,129,127],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}