{"id":1700,"date":"2017-02-01T11:16:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T10:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exploranatura.com\/?p=1700\/"},"modified":"2017-02-01T11:16:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T10:16:21","slug":"el-rey-de-las-aves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exploranatura.es\/en\/el-rey-de-las-aves\/","title":{"rendered":"The king of birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

The king of birds<\/h2>\n

Environmental Education: The Listed Wren in Popular Culture.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The king of birds shows us a brief history that we can find in the book "Iberian birds in popular culture".<\/p>\n

Environmental education has a strong connection with popular culture, and that's what we want to show in this series of blog posts from Explora Natura.<\/p>\n

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As you know, one of the members of Explora Natura, Antonio Pestana, is the author of the book "Iberian Birds in Popular Culture", a fantastic compilation of sayings, proverbs, stories, legends and anecdotes that was published by the Tundra publishing house and will soon be complemented with a second part that the author has made significant progress in.<\/p>\n

So we continue this series of reports on environmental education with the popular tale of "The King of the Birds", referring to the firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla), one of the smallest birds in our avifauna.<\/p>\n

Here's the story:<\/p>\n

One day the birds gathered to choose their king, and by common agreement they decided that the one who flew the highest would be chosen. All the birds strained and climbed higher and higher until they were exhausted.<\/p>\n

"I am strong, noble, and brave. And my formidable wings allow me to fly very high, above the clouds!" each bird thought to itself.<\/p>\n

The nightingale believed that he must be the king of the birds, for he possessed the most beautiful and melodious song of all the birds.<\/p>\n

The owl, who is very wise and meditates at night instead of sleeping, said:<\/p>\n