{"id":8470,"date":"2020-11-27T13:42:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T11:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greek-crossroads.gr\/?p=8470"},"modified":"2020-11-27T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T11:42:54","slug":"%ce%bb%ce%af%ce%bc%ce%bd%ce%b7-%ce%ba%ce%b5%cf%81%ce%ba%ce%af%ce%bd%ce%b7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greek-crossroads.gr\/en\/%ce%bb%ce%af%ce%bc%ce%bd%ce%b7-%ce%ba%ce%b5%cf%81%ce%ba%ce%af%ce%bd%ce%b7\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerkini lake: A greek wonderland for bird-watchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Kerkini lake hosts 227 kinds of birds, especially non-migrants and 76 of them are recorded in the National Red Catalogue, while at least 31 of them are protected by EEC&#8217;s Directive concerning wild life.<\/p>\n<p>One of the beauties of Lake Kerkini is that the birding is good all year round. Since Kerkini is a breeding area and a stop-off point along a major migration route the lake is always full of birds and often willing to offer up those special magic moments to anyone who gives a decent viewing.<\/p>\n<p>What makes an exceptional presence is the buffalo&#8217;s herd in the area of Kerkini lake.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ybsYAZ8bq8s\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerkini lake and its surrounding area offers the best all round birding in Greece&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greek-crossroads.gr\/en\/%ce%bb%ce%af%ce%bc%ce%bd%ce%b7-%ce%ba%ce%b5%cf%81%ce%ba%ce%af%ce%bd%ce%b7\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kerkini lake: A greek wonderland for bird-watchers<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serres","category-rivers-lakes"],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-crossroads.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-crossroads.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-crossroads.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greek-crossroads.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greek-crossroads.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greek-crossroads.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-crossroads.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greek-crossroads.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greek-crossroads.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}