{"id":10642,"date":"2016-12-01T11:19:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T18:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10642"},"modified":"2016-12-01T11:19:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T18:19:22","slug":"the-forward-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/the-forward-march\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forward March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy years ago today, on December 1, 1946, <a href=\"https:\/\/sora.unm.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/journals\/auk\/v111n04\/p0991-p0993.pdf\">Ben and Lula Coffey<\/a>\u00a0with Mr. and Mrs. B.F. McCarney discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/sora.unm.edu\/node\/101122\">the largest flock of\u00a0<strong>European starlings\u00a0<\/strong>ever seen to that date in Mexico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10643\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screenshot-2016-12-01-13.15.30.png\" alt=\"Naumann, European starlings\" width=\"358\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screenshot-2016-12-01-13.15.30.png 358w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screenshot-2016-12-01-13.15.30-206x300.png 206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was not the first record for the country, but the band of 500 individuals encountered just south of Nuevo Laredo was some\u00a020 times\u00a0the cumulative total reported since the species&#8217; arrival in Mexico a dozen years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The rest is history, as they say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy years ago today, on December 1, 1946, Ben and Lula Coffey\u00a0with Mr. and Mrs. B.F. McCarney discovered the largest flock of\u00a0European starlings\u00a0ever seen to that date in Mexico. This was not the first record for the country, but the band of 500 individuals encountered just south of Nuevo Laredo was some\u00a020 times\u00a0the cumulative total &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/the-forward-march\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Forward March&#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\/10642"}],"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=10642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10644,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions\/10644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}