{"id":5308,"date":"2026-11-10T06:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T11:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5308"},"modified":"2026-11-10T06:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T11:11:53","slug":"blue-eared-starling-on-a-papaya-in-the-rift-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5308","title":{"rendered":"Blue eared starling on a papaya in the Rift Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/blue-eared-starling-on-a-papaya-in-the-rift-valley.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A glossy blue starling perched on a cut papaya\" class=\"wp-image-5307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/blue-eared-starling-on-a-papaya-in-the-rift-valley.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/blue-eared-starling-on-a-papaya-in-the-rift-valley.jpg?resize=250%2C167&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/blue-eared-starling-on-a-papaya-in-the-rift-valley.jpg?resize=700%2C466&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/blue-eared-starling-on-a-papaya-in-the-rift-valley.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>A glossy blue starling, identified by the poster as a greater blue eared starling, perches on a cut papaya in Ethiopia&#x27;s Rift Valley near Langano. The poster shared it in December 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A glossy blue starling, identified by the poster as a greater blue eared starling, perches on a cut papaya in Ethiopia&#x27;s Rift Valley near Langano. The poster shared it in December 2020.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iddo_minte\/status\/1339308303755735043\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mintesinot F. Mosisa (@iddo_minte) on X<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A glossy blue starling, identified by the poster as a greater blue eared starling, perches on a cut papaya in Ethiopia&#x27;s Rift Valley near Langano. The poster shared it in December 2020. A glossy blue starling, identified by the poster as a greater blue eared starling, perches on a cut papaya in Ethiopia&#x27;s Rift Valley\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":5307,"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":[875,108,2932,552,2833,2931,2602],"class_list":["post-5308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wild-life","tag-birds","tag-ethiopia","tag-langano","tag-oromia","tag-rift-valley","tag-starling","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\/blue-eared-starling-on-a-papaya-in-the-rift-valley.jpg?fit=1024%2C682&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308","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=5308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}