{"id":10609,"date":"2016-09-16T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T13:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10609"},"modified":"2016-09-16T06:36:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T13:36:54","slug":"fresno-mountain-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/16\/fresno-mountain-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Mountain High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty-five years ago today, on September 16, 1931, <a href=\"https:\/\/sora.unm.edu\/node\/98205\">the Dillwoods observed for the last time a\u00a0long-staying\u00a0<\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sora.unm.edu\/node\/98205\">snowy egret<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in the forests along Deer Creek, at an elevation of 7,060 feet in Fresno County, California.<\/p>\n<p>Invoking the &#8220;life zone&#8221; principle linking altitude and latitude, Roland Case Ross noted that this unusual occurrence was equivalent to the bird&#8217;s<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>wandering into Nova Scotia and British Columbia, which places the Snowy Egret in Canadian Life Zone faunas a thousand miles\u00a0northward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ross doesn&#8217;t come out and say it, but he had his suspicions about the cause of the bird&#8217;s abrupt vanishing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is significant to note the disappearance of the bird on the day \u201cdeer hunting\u201d began.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eloquent quotation marks if ever there were.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Snowy Egret\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/14577977861\/in\/photolist-odcWVT-odkKj3-nW1C1p-obsMVf-odr8Jw-nW2y7D-nW2x5t-oduVfi-nW1g9f-odkHP9-nW2upi-nW1uns-nW2uz8-nW1fRb-nW1geA-odr5KW-fNoBWG-fNoCcQ-fNoC3m-fN73Z8-fNoBYJ-fNoC9G-fN73Q6-ee5XHk-ee5XFF-ee5XLX-ee5XKi-dVTD98-dVZeAd-dVZeyW-dV5Xb2-dV5Xck-dV5X9z-cQXu17-cuEr5h-cuEqZo-cuEcN9-cuEcQf-cuEcSj-cuEfrJ-cuEfGu-cuEftU-cfLdAY-cfLdVG-cfLdGf-cfLdLW-cfLdSw-bHuXzX-buAbkb-bHuXmr\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/4\/3858\/14577977861_fa2282b055_z.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy Egret\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A snowy egret at a more expected location and elevation.<\/em><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty-five years ago today, on September 16, 1931, the Dillwoods observed for the last time a\u00a0long-staying\u00a0snowy egret\u00a0in the forests along Deer Creek, at an elevation of 7,060 feet in Fresno County, California. Invoking the &#8220;life zone&#8221; principle linking altitude and latitude, Roland Case Ross noted that this unusual occurrence was equivalent to the bird&#8217;s wandering &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/16\/fresno-mountain-high\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fresno Mountain High&#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\/10609"}],"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=10609"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10615,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10609\/revisions\/10615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}