{"id":835,"date":"2014-07-14T20:54:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T18:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/competitions\/bonellis-eagle-vs-lesser-kestrel\/"},"modified":"2014-07-14T20:54:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T18:54:18","slug":"bonellis-eagle-vs-lesser-kestrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/competitions\/bonellis-eagle-vs-lesser-kestrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonelli&#8217;s Eagle vs Lesser Kestrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Raptors game<\/p>\n<p><em>If a Bonelli&#8217;s Eagle confronted a Lesser Kestrel, which one would win?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Any parent of boystrous boys would most likely be familiar with the framework of such a question. &#8220;which one is stronger&#8221;, &#8220;Which is the fastest&#8221;, &#8220;the best&#8221; etc.<\/p>\n<p>Although the answer to this particular question, that of the <strong>Bonelli&#8217;s Eagle<\/strong> vs the <strong>Lesser Kestrel<\/strong>, doesn&#8217;t seem too difficult to come by.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bonelli&#8217;s Eagle, of course&#8221; is what many would probably say. And it&#8217;s true, the <strong>Bonelli&#8217;s Eagle<\/strong> is bigger, stronger, meaner, and I can&#8217;t imagine a <strong>Lesser Kestrel<\/strong> being much of a match for it. Or maybe it is&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at these two cards from La Sabina&#8217;s <strong>raptor game<\/strong>, and tell us what conclusion you reach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bonellis-eagle-card2cat.jpg\" alt=\"The Bonelli\u2019s Eagle card from the Raptor game\" style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lesser-kestrel-cardcat.jpg\" alt=\"The Lesser Kestrel card from La Sabina\u2019s Raptor game\" style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raptors game If a Bonelli&#8217;s Eagle confronted a Lesser Kestrel, which one would win? Any parent of boystrous boys would most likely be familiar with the framework of such a question. &#8220;which one is stronger&#8221;, &#8220;Which is the fastest&#8221;, &#8220;the best&#8221; etc. Although the answer to this particular question, that of the Bonelli&#8217;s Eagle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-dt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}