{"id":1174,"date":"2009-01-01T16:50:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T00:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2009-09-27T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T05:03:12","slug":"bird-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"Bird Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 1em ; padding-bottom: 0 ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/localnews\/content\/local_news\/epaper\/2009\/01\/01\/0101deadbird.html\"><q>Rare bird, spooked by fireworks, thrashes itself to death<\/q> by Don Jordon at <cite>the Palm Beach Post<\/cite><\/a> <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">Workers at the Rare Species Conservatory Foundation doing a routine morning check-up today discovered a dead red-browed Amazon parrot with severe head and face injuries.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">&#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/span><br \/><br \/>Reillo said the birds and other animals always get spooked by the fireworks, but this is the first time an animal has reacted so violently.<br \/><br \/><q><u>We're doing everything we can<\/u> to save these species and the lack of enforcement on fireworks regulations is basically undoing our best efforts,<\/q> he said. <q>In the middle of the night, they're not expecting blasts and fireworks and gunshots. It's getting worse every year.<\/q><\/blockquote><\/div> <p>(Underscore mine.) Plainly, these folk were <em>not<\/em> doing everything that they could.  There was an established problem of the animals being spooked by the fireworks, but <em>no one was there<\/em> to care for the animals during a time that fireworks were to be expected.  <em>The staff failed grossly<\/em>, but they're pointing their fingers away from themselves.  I don't know whether they're just too <em>stupid<\/em> to recognize their own failure, or proceed now from a lack of integrity.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rare bird, spooked by fireworks, thrashes itself to death by Don Jordon at the Palm Beach Post Workers at the Rare Species Conservatory Foundation doing a routine morning check-up today discovered a dead red-browed Amazon parrot with severe head and face injuries.&#91;&#8230;&#93;Reillo said the birds and other animals always get spooked by the fireworks, but [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,104,4],"tags":[394],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-news","category-public","tag-everyday-horrors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}