{"id":347,"date":"2012-03-06T16:29:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T16:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/?p=347"},"modified":"2019-04-01T14:56:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T13:56:31","slug":"snow-petrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/snow-petrels","title":{"rendered":"Snow Petrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On skies and seas<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">veiled white with light,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">snow petrels weave<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">and wheel in flight,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">they glide and skim<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">from high to low,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">a falling flock<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">of feathered snow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In courtship chases<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">pair by pair<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">they braid their paths<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">of freezing air,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">birds of Antarctic<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">paradise,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">the cliffs, the sea,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">the snow, the ice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Pagodrama nivea &#8211; <\/em>Snow petrels are not endangered, but of the 131 species of petrel and albatross, 62% have been classified by the IUCN Red List for Threatened Species as Extinct, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable or Near Threatened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/zAnimal-Magic-book-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Animal Magic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/zAnimal-Magic-book-cover-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Snow petrels is in my book, Animal Magic, which is available from:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ironpress.co.uk\">IRON Press<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s\/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_13?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=animal+magic+liz+brownlee&amp;sprefix=Animal+Magic+%2Cstripbooks%2C341\">Amazon<\/a> and bookshops.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/poems\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Back to poems<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. On skies and seas veiled white with light, snow petrels weave and wheel in flight, . they glide and skim from high to low, a falling flock of feathered snow. . In courtship chases pair by pair they braid their paths of freezing air, . birds of Antarctic paradise, the cliffs, the sea, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[60,65,66,94,116,180],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shape-poems","tag-where","tag-above","tag-beneath","tag-air","tag-snow","tag-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}