{"id":11699,"date":"2019-05-21T11:19:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T15:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=11699"},"modified":"2019-05-21T11:20:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T15:20:38","slug":"not-a-mystery-bird-unless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/21\/not-a-mystery-bird-unless\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Mystery Bird &#8212; Unless&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"melodious hippolais\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/47848085302\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/47848085302_5fa8f1186e.jpg\" alt=\"melodious hippolais\" width=\"500\" height=\"443\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no big mystery about this bird&#8217;s identity. We&#8217;re in southern France, it&#8217;s getting to be late May, and&nbsp;<strong>melodious warblers&nbsp;<\/strong>like this one are are busy and noisy on the edges of marshes and woodlands everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>But play along here for a moment. When I&#8217;m out and about and smugly identify one of those challenging little brown birds, or yellow birds, or green birds, I like to step back and ask myself what usually turns into a truly disturbing question:<\/p>\n<p>What if I were to run into this bird someplace where the species is utterly unexpected? Would I think of a hippolais warbler at all, or would I try to squeeze it into the procrustean mental image I hold of an entirely different bird? And just how many genuine rarities do I overlook as something familiar but just a tiny bit &#8220;off&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"melodious warlber\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/47900098291\/in\/photostream\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/47900098291_bdd2947d2d.jpg\" alt=\"melodious warlber\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bird every bird,&#8221; they say. Little yellow warblers help me try to remember to do just that.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/46984064465\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"melodious polyglot warbler\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/46984064465_d4d0803193.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"449\" alt=\"melodious polyglot warbler\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no big mystery about this bird&#8217;s identity. We&#8217;re in southern France, it&#8217;s getting to be late May, and&nbsp;melodious warblers&nbsp;like this one are are busy and noisy on the edges of marshes and woodlands everywhere. But play along here for a moment. When I&#8217;m out and about and smugly identify one of those challenging little &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/21\/not-a-mystery-bird-unless\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not a Mystery Bird &#8212; Unless&#8230;.&#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\/11699"}],"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=11699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11701,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions\/11701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}