{"id":10857,"date":"2017-11-04T07:21:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T14:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10857"},"modified":"2017-11-04T07:21:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T14:21:23","slug":"a-ross-goose-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/04\/a-ross-goose-in-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ross Goose in Oregon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-two years ago today, northeast Oregon&#8217;s first record of the sweet little <strong>Ross goose<\/strong> was obtained when I.S. Surber shot\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sora.unm.edu\/node\/99740\">a juvenile in Wallowa County<\/a>. Reporting on the remarkable find, Stanley Jewel noted that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>recent known occurrences of the Ross Goose outside of its regular winter range have been few and far between and should be placed on record.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fast forward three quarters of a century: How many counties in the United States\u00a0have\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>recorded the species?<\/p>\n<p>How things change &#8212; and sometimes for the better, at least from the point of view of\u00a0certain tiny white geese.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ross's Goose\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/6461300455\/in\/photolist-mwge9F-mwgGDt-mwiDih-mwixQo-mwhHYF-mwhrST-mwgFmR-mwioRF-mwipb8-aQXUuV-aQXUbD-aQXN7R-aQXULp-aQXMMg-aQXTUV-aQY4bt-aQXTsV-aQXTFx-aQXTce-aQXRvZ-aQXS2r-aQXRgD-aQXSSB-aQXSBp-aQXQr8-aQXQLx-aQXR3n-aQXPLg-aQXPc2-aQXPuk-aNt3Be-9rpHfG-9tSX32-9tVVxW-dXFz8e-9rpHiW-9acqaC-9acqe7-dXF23M-98UCDH-98UCY8-98XN4h-98XLTm-99fxAW-98UAQ8-98UAHR-91vWYj-8PyWsM-9G8wzi-527Ja9\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7157\/6461300455_c28c7b200f.jpg\" alt=\"Ross's Goose\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(The photo is from central New Jersey &#8212; ho hum, almost.)<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-two years ago today, northeast Oregon&#8217;s first record of the sweet little Ross goose was obtained when I.S. Surber shot\u00a0a juvenile in Wallowa County. Reporting on the remarkable find, Stanley Jewel noted that recent known occurrences of the Ross Goose outside of its regular winter range have been few and far between and should be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/04\/a-ross-goose-in-oregon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Ross Goose in Oregon!&#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\/10857"}],"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=10857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10858,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857\/revisions\/10858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}