{"id":10326,"date":"2015-10-23T01:40:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T08:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10326"},"modified":"2015-10-20T08:23:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T15:23:31","slug":"plus-ca-change-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/23\/plus-ca-change-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Plus \u00e7a change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 23, 1896, Frank L. <a href=\"https:\/\/sora.unm.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/journals\/wilson\/v008n06\/p0005-p0005.pdf\">Burns &#8220;secured&#8221; the first\u00a0<\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sora.unm.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/journals\/wilson\/v008n06\/p0005-p0005.pdf\">Henslow&#8217;s sparrow<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>he had\u00a0ever\u00a0encountered in his home state of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot-2015-09-01-14.42.15.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10327\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot-2015-09-01-14.42.15.png\" alt=\"henslow's sparrow, Fuertes\" width=\"398\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot-2015-09-01-14.42.15.png 398w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot-2015-09-01-14.42.15-267x300.png 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Burns didn&#8217;t shoot it. He didn&#8217;t net it or trap it. He didn&#8217;t even pick it up from under a plate glass window.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A large black and white cat was seen along the fence of a pasture field, with something in her mouth&#8230;. It proved to be an [adult Henslow&#8217;s sparrow] in excellent plumage, with the exception of the primaries and secondaries, which were scarcely three-fourths grown. This, together with its extreme fatness, rendered it an easy victim to tabby.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We know that Burns skinned the bird. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/20\/opinion\/australias-feral-cat-problem.html\">The fate of the cat<\/a> is less certain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 23, 1896, Frank L. Burns &#8220;secured&#8221; the first\u00a0Henslow&#8217;s sparrow\u00a0he had\u00a0ever\u00a0encountered in his home state of Pennsylvania. Burns didn&#8217;t shoot it. He didn&#8217;t net it or trap it. He didn&#8217;t even pick it up from under a plate glass window. A large black and white cat was seen along the fence of a pasture &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/23\/plus-ca-change-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Plus \u00e7a change&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,66],"tags":[570,571],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10399,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326\/revisions\/10399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}