{"id":296,"date":"2017-06-19T21:25:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T21:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/?p=296"},"modified":"2017-06-19T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T21:25:08","slug":"the-other-auk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/the-other-auk\/","title":{"rendered":"The other auk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve previously posted photos of the three commonest auks in our waters &#8211; puffins, razorbills and guillemots. There is another &#8211; the black guillemot. This one was spotted sitting on a rock in Orkney. Or should that be Auk-ney?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1430993a-orkney.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"297\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/the-other-auk\/p1430993a-orkney\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1430993a-orkney.jpg?fit=3821%2C2384&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3821,2384\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-FZ72&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1496416848&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;215&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"P1430993a (orkney)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1430993a-orkney.jpg?fit=1024%2C639&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-297\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1430993a-orkney.jpg?resize=1920%2C1198\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1430993a-orkney.jpg?w=3821&amp;ssl=1 3821w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1430993a-orkney.jpg?resize=150%2C94&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1430993a-orkney.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1430993a-orkney.jpg?resize=768%2C479&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1430993a-orkney.jpg?resize=1024%2C639&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the RSPB, the numbers of breeding pairs of auks in UK waters are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>950,000 guillemots<\/li>\n<li>580,799 puffins<\/li>\n<li>130,000 razorbills<\/li>\n<li>19,000 black guillemots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And no, I don&#8217;t know how they worked out the figure for puffins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve previously posted photos of the three commonest auks in our waters &#8211; puffins, razorbills and guillemots. There is another &#8211; the black guillemot. This&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The other auk - the black guillemot","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,5,64],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auk-bird","category-bird","category-black-guillemot","tag-auk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1430993a-orkney.jpg?fit=3821%2C2384&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8CEbN-4M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}