{"id":10785,"date":"2017-08-12T12:12:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T19:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10785"},"modified":"2017-08-12T12:12:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T19:12:20","slug":"a-wren-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/12\/a-wren-in-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wren in the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"cactus wren sunning, Sonora\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/36353613201\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4422\/36353613201_4c3845edf3.jpg\" alt=\"cactus wren sunning, Sonora\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think that\u00a0<strong>cactus wrens\u00a0<\/strong>would get plenty of sun just living where they do, but this one in Bah\u00eda de Kino the other day made a special effort to expose itself, writhing into postures startlingly\u00a0reptilian even for this so saurian\u00a0species.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"cactus wren sunning, Sonora\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/36353613331\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4367\/36353613331_b3f23e0892.jpg\" alt=\"cactus wren sunning, Sonora\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It turns out, says BNA, that sunbathing in this desert wren is rarely observed\u00a0and little understood.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"cactus wren sunning, Sonora\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/36353623321\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4373\/36353623321_e2824ac653.jpg\" alt=\"cactus wren sunning, Sonora\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I suspect that this bird&#8217;s contortions, which went on for a full five minutes while I watched in the mid-day heat, had something to do with the ragged state of its plumage, in turn likely the result of an ill-timed and itchy infestation of something or other during the pre-basic molt.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"cactus wren sunning, Sonora\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/36353613011\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4386\/36353613011_76ac2c9940.jpg\" alt=\"cactus wren sunning, Sonora\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m eager to hear if you&#8217;ve seen this behavior. I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time watching cactus wrens, and can&#8217;t remember having witnessed anything quite this extravagant before myself.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"cactus wren sunning, Sonora\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/36094222750\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4394\/36094222750_b8f51a4546.jpg\" alt=\"cactus wren sunning, Sonora\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think that\u00a0cactus wrens\u00a0would get plenty of sun just living where they do, but this one in Bah\u00eda de Kino the other day made a special effort to expose itself, writhing into postures startlingly\u00a0reptilian even for this so saurian\u00a0species. It turns out, says BNA, that sunbathing in this desert wren is rarely observed\u00a0and little understood. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/12\/a-wren-in-the-sun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Wren in the Sun&#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\/10785"}],"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=10785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10786,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785\/revisions\/10786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}