{"id":609,"date":"2008-02-27T06:43:50","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T10:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=609"},"modified":"2008-02-27T06:43:50","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T10:43:50","slug":"609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/27\/609\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds in Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/nature\/conservationists-mobilise-to-halt-mass-slaughter-of-birds-in-malta-786763.html\"><em>The Independent<\/em><\/a> reports today on the efforts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdlifemalta.org\/\">BirdLife Malta<\/a> and the RSPB to document the migration and hunt of migrating birds in April.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In his book, <em>Fatal Flight: The Maltese Obsession with Killing Birds<\/em> which chronicles the history of Maltese hunting, Natalino Fenech described the annual death toll of three million finches, more than half a million thrushes, 500,000 swallows, 80,000 golden orioles, 18,000 shearwaters and 50,000 birds of prey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more information how to help contact BirdLife Malta or phone Jane Devitt at the RSPB on 01767 680551. Volunteers need to be interested in birds and reasonably fit, <em>The Independent<\/em> says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent reports today on the efforts of BirdLife Malta and the RSPB to document the migration and hunt of migrating birds in April. In his book, Fatal Flight: The Maltese Obsession with Killing Birds which chronicles the history of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/27\/609\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}