{"id":53627,"date":"2012-05-16T12:31:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T09:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=53627"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:19:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T11:19:59","slug":"turkey-thinks-this-bird-is-an-israeli-spy-because-its-nostril-is-big-enough-to-hold-microchips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/05\/16\/turkey-thinks-this-bird-is-an-israeli-spy-because-its-nostril-is-big-enough-to-hold-microchips\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Thinks This Bird Is an Israeli Spy Because Its Nostril Is Big Enough to Hold Microchips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey Thinks This Bird Is an Israeli Spy Because Its Nostril Is Big Enough to Hold Microchips<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-53629\" title=\"original\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/original.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/original.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/original-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/original-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Turkish authorities announced Tuesday that they have recovered the body of a daring Israeli spy\u2014replete with feathers. And a belly full of bees.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports from Israeli news site YNet, a farmer discovered the dead bird, a Merops Apiaster aka the European Bee-Eater, in a field outside of Gaziantep and turned it over to authorities after he noticed an Israeli serial band on the bird&#8217;s leg.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that band turned out to be a common means of ornithological tracking\u2014the Society for Protection of Nature in Israel has even confirmed the bands serial number as being legitimate. But Turkey has a an even more damning piece of evidence\u2014the size of the Bee-eater&#8217;s nostrils! Dun dun dunnnnnnnn.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, and don&#8217;t ask how they verified this, that the European Bee-Eater&#8217;s spacious nasal cavity is ample enough to accommodate a perceived suite of microelectronics\u2014spy cameras, tiny mics, tracking bugs, and whatnot\u2014turning these otherwise benign fowl into flying espionage centers. At least that&#8217;s what Ankara&#8217;s security services, who are now in possession of the 61 gram &#8220;spy,&#8221; believe. Or, you know, it could just be one of a large population of European Bee-eaters that inhabits the Northern tip of Israel and migrate across Turkey in their annual trek to, you guessed it, Southern Europe. [Ynet via Business Insider &#8211; Image: William Kreijkes]<\/p>\n<p>via Turkey Thinks This Bird Is an Israeli Spy Because Its Nostril Is Big Enough to Hold Microchips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey Thinks This Bird Is an Israeli Spy Because Its Nostril Is Big Enough to Hold Microchips Turkish authorities announced Tuesday that they have recovered the body of a daring Israeli spy\u2014replete with feathers. And a belly full of bees. According to reports from Israeli news site YNet, a farmer discovered the dead bird, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":53629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[905],"class_list":["post-53627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","tag-mossad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}