{"id":10596,"date":"2016-09-26T00:23:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T07:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10596"},"modified":"2016-09-10T12:33:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T19:33:21","slug":"a-rare-sparrow-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/26\/a-rare-sparrow-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rare Sparrow in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety-five years ago today, a promising young birder notice\u00a0several &#8220;different&#8221; birds\u00a0in\u00a0a flock of White-throated Sparrows in <a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/hotspot\/L265942\">Jackson Park<\/a> on Chicago&#8217;s lakefront. Closer inspection revealed that at least two of the outlanders were Harris&#8217;s Sparrows, a species considered rare then, and still scarce today, anywhere in Illinois.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10597\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"Harri's sparrow\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10597\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10597\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/5701188843_9b76ba2c11_o-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Harris's sparrow, Arizona\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/5701188843_9b76ba2c11_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/5701188843_9b76ba2c11_o-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/5701188843_9b76ba2c11_o-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/5701188843_9b76ba2c11_o.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harris&#8217;s sparrow, Arizona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A nice find indeed for the seventeen-year-old birder. But he is better known\u00a0nowadays for his connection to the Kirtland&#8217;s warbler, the Wilson&#8217;s phalarope, and <a href=\"http:\/\/law2.umkc.edu\/faculty\/projects\/ftrials\/leoploeb\/LEO_ORNI.HTM\">one of the most notoriously vicious crimes in American history<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety-five years ago today, a promising young birder notice\u00a0several &#8220;different&#8221; birds\u00a0in\u00a0a flock of White-throated Sparrows in Jackson Park on Chicago&#8217;s lakefront. Closer inspection revealed that at least two of the outlanders were Harris&#8217;s Sparrows, a species considered rare then, and still scarce today, anywhere in Illinois. A nice find indeed for the seventeen-year-old birder. But &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/26\/a-rare-sparrow-in-chicago\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Rare Sparrow in Chicago&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10596"}],"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=10596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10598,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10596\/revisions\/10598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}