{"id":5772,"date":"2025-12-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:58:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:58:29","slug":"tiny-blue-penguin-fairy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/tiny-blue-penguin-fairy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Blue Penguin Fairy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"358\" height=\"477\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/fairy_penguin.jpg\" alt=\"fairy penguin blue Eudyptula mino\" class=\"wp-image-5768\" title=\"fairy_penguin\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/fairy_penguin.jpg 358w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/fairy_penguin-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/fairy_penguin-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This may not look like a penguin but it certainly is! They are called little or fairy penguins (<em>Eudyptula mino<\/em>), they live in New Zealand and Australia and have the typical tuxedo look of a penguin except they are blue! They are also the smallest penguin, weighing just 2 pounds, these little guys are most affected by such threats as food shortages and habitat loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the smallest bird sporting the tuxedo look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[62,115,150,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-5772","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-colour","12":"tag-penguin","13":"tag-smallest"},"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\/5772","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=5772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610819,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions\/610819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}