{"id":5425,"date":"2013-06-04T04:46:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T11:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=5425"},"modified":"2015-04-10T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T18:21:11","slug":"bonaparte-on-the-common-nighthawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/04\/bonaparte-on-the-common-nighthawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonaparte on the Common Nighthawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s commencement day in Princeton, and one of the questions on everyone&#8217;s mind this morning is who the recipients of honorary degrees will be. In 1825, one of them was none other than <a href=\"http:\/\/winscript.princeton.edu\/mudd\/Honorary.php?qname=honorary&amp;LNAME=Bonaparte&amp;FNAME=&amp;YEAR=&amp;submit=++Submit++\">Charles Lucian Bonaparte<\/a>, illegitimate nephew of the former emperor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/b6\/Bonaparte_Charles_Lucien_1803-1857.png\/514px-Bonaparte_Charles_Lucien_1803-1857.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whether the degree\u00a0was awarded for his ornithological publications or his political engagement, but it was certainly not for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/54039#page\/71\/mode\/1up\">theory on the production of vocal sound<\/a> by\u00a0<strong>Common Nighthawks<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Sometimes when flying [they] utter a noise, probably produced by air rushing into their open mouth, and circulating in the body.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That speculation was still three years in the future when the Prince of Musignano was granted\u00a0his A.M.\u00a0<em>honoris causa.<\/em>\u00a0Plus, it&#8217;s not true.\u00a0<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4605\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4605\" style=\"width: 469px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4605\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Common-Nighthawk-Web-Badge-2013-ABA-Bird-of-the-Year.png\" alt=\"The 2013 ABA Bird of the Year\" width=\"469\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Common-Nighthawk-Web-Badge-2013-ABA-Bird-of-the-Year.png 469w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Common-Nighthawk-Web-Badge-2013-ABA-Bird-of-the-Year-294x300.png 294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2013 ABA Bird of the Year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s commencement day in Princeton, and one of the questions on everyone&#8217;s mind this morning is who the recipients of honorary degrees will be. In 1825, one of them was none other than Charles Lucian Bonaparte, illegitimate nephew of the former emperor. I don&#8217;t know whether the degree\u00a0was awarded for his ornithological publications or his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/04\/bonaparte-on-the-common-nighthawk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bonaparte on the Common Nighthawk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425"}],"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=5425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9943,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions\/9943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}