{"id":4271,"date":"2010-10-31T09:25:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T13:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2019-07-25T11:23:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T15:23:57","slug":"the-reappearing-parakeet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/the-reappearing-parakeet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reappearing Parakeet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mauritius parakeet (<em>Psittacula eques echo)<\/em> has seen some dark days; in 1986 only three females were known to live in the wild. Thanks to conservation efforts to protect wild spaces this species is making a comeback. As of 2007 there were 343 Mauritius parakeets in the wild.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4088\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4088\" title=\"mauritian_parakeet\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/mauritian_parakeet.jpg\" alt=\"mauritian parakeet\" width=\"640\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/mauritian_parakeet.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/mauritian_parakeet-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/mauritian_parakeet-593x420.jpg 593w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/mauritian_parakeet-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flickr credit: col.hou<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eol.org\/pages\/4435512\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.eol.org\/pages\/4435512<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2890 align=\" style=\"margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"2010_biodiversity_logo_convention\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention.png\" alt=\"biodiversity logo convention 2010\" width=\"644\" height=\"105\" align=\"aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention.png 920w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-300x48.png 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-768x125.png 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-696x113.png 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Earth Rangers<\/span><\/strong><strong> has teamed up with <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The United Nations Convention<\/span><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">on Biological Diversity<\/span><\/strong><strong> to bring you a daily dose of <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=1223\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">biodiversity basics<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bird has staying power <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/content\/wildwire\/mauritian_parakeet-236x160.jpg\" alt=\"mauritian parakeet\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[62,5,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-4271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg_animals","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-all","10":"tag-birds","11":"tag-extinction","12":"tag-united-nations"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}