{"id":10329,"date":"2015-09-02T07:25:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T14:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10329"},"modified":"2015-09-02T10:29:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T17:29:53","slug":"smelly-sparrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/02\/smelly-sparrows\/","title":{"rendered":"Smelly Sparrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite lines in the history of American ornithology comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/4073339?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents\">J.P. Giraud<\/a>&#8216;s description of one of my favorite birds, the <strong>Henslow&#8217;s sparrow<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Henslow-sparrow-Robert-Ridgway.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10330\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Henslow-sparrow-Robert-Ridgway.png\" alt=\"Henslow sparrow, Robert Ridgway\" width=\"364\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Henslow-sparrow-Robert-Ridgway.png 364w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Henslow-sparrow-Robert-Ridgway-300x251.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shotgun birders like Giraud found this species no less maddeningly elusive than today&#8217;s observers. Happily, though, writes Giraud,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>from the eagerness with which it is pursued by dogs, we may infer that it possesses\u00a0considerable game effluvia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As late as the 1970s, it seems,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.partnersinflight.org\/henslow2.pdf\">hunters in Louisiana were complaining<\/a> that their dogs were pointing these grassland &#8220;stinkbirds&#8221;\u00a0instead of quail.<\/p>\n<p>Gellert, you have a mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite lines in the history of American ornithology comes from J.P. Giraud&#8216;s description of one of my favorite birds, the Henslow&#8217;s sparrow. Shotgun birders like Giraud found this species no less maddeningly elusive than today&#8217;s observers. Happily, though, writes Giraud, from the eagerness with which it is pursued by dogs, we may &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/02\/smelly-sparrows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Smelly Sparrows&#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":[523,573,575,574,570,572],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329"}],"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=10329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10333,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions\/10333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}