{"id":5091,"date":"2026-11-01T06:14:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5091"},"modified":"2026-11-01T06:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:14:46","slug":"marabou-stork-spreading-its-wings-at-lake-hawassa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5091","title":{"rendered":"Marabou stork spreading its wings at Lake Hawassa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/marabou-stork-spreading-its-wings-at-lake-hawassa.jpg?resize=1080%2C1350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Marabou stork with dark wings spread standing on a mound of earth beside a lake under a blue sky\" class=\"wp-image-5090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/marabou-stork-spreading-its-wings-at-lake-hawassa.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/marabou-stork-spreading-its-wings-at-lake-hawassa.jpg?resize=250%2C313&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/marabou-stork-spreading-its-wings-at-lake-hawassa.jpg?resize=700%2C875&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/marabou-stork-spreading-its-wings-at-lake-hawassa.jpg?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>A marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) spreads its wings on a mound of earth by the water. The photographer says it was taken at Lake Hawassa in the Great Rift Valley, where storks gather near the landing spot of local fishing boats.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) spreads its wings on a mound of earth by the water. The photographer says it was taken at Lake Hawassa in the Great Rift Valley, where storks gather near the landing spot of local fishing boats.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DrJMiddleton\/status\/1964287906622619698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Jo Middleton (@DrJMiddleton) on X<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) spreads its wings on a mound of earth by the water. The photographer says it was taken at Lake Hawassa in the Great Rift Valley, where storks gather near the landing spot of local fishing boats. A marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) spreads its wings on a mound of earth by\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":5090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"photographer":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48],"tags":[875,108,2733,2732,2731,2602],"class_list":["post-5091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wild-life","tag-birds","tag-ethiopia","tag-hawassa","tag-lake-hawassa","tag-marabou-stork","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/marabou-stork-spreading-its-wings-at-lake-hawassa.jpg?fit=1080%2C1350&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}