{"id":8747,"date":"2014-06-11T10:05:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T17:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=8747"},"modified":"2014-06-11T10:06:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T17:06:35","slug":"the-cardinals-of-teaneck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/11\/the-cardinals-of-teaneck\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cardinals of Teaneck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ARgonne Park, Teaneck, NJ by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/14397392102\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"ARgonne Park, Teaneck, NJ\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2908\/14397392102_c07003894c_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I stepped out of the car at Argonne Park early this damp, dark morning to a familiar sound, the scratching chips of a family of\u00a0<strong>northern cardinals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Northern Cardinal by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/6925241590\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Northern Cardinal\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7215\/6925241590_1fdfe96199_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice, but no big deal AD 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The same birds would have been a big deal indeed just 75 years ago, when the northern limit of this familiar species&#8217; range was still in southern New Jersey. Indeed, <a href=\"https:\/\/sora.unm.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/journals\/auk\/v067n03\/p0307-p0315.pdf\">the neighborhood&#8217;s most famous birder<\/a> did not encounter cardinals until he <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Autobiography_of_a_Bird_lover.html?id=ywkKAAAAMAAJ\">visited Milledgeville, Georgia, in the spring of 1872<\/a>, in<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a spacious garden having flower beds bordered with hyacinths&#8230;. It was in this garden, after a shower, that I saw my first Cardinal&#8230;. Doubtless the sun was shining, for the brilliance of its colors made a profound impression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/116744#page\/186\/mode\/1up\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8748\" alt=\"Screenshot 2014-06-11 12.51.45\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screenshot-2014-06-11-12.51.45.png\" width=\"422\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screenshot-2014-06-11-12.51.45.png 422w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screenshot-2014-06-11-12.51.45-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A very profound impression, and if there is such a thing as a &#8220;spark bird,&#8221; this, the\u00a0<strong>northern cardinal<\/strong>, lit a light that would shine on American ornithology and birding for the next more than 70 years.<\/p>\n<p>More tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stepped out of the car at Argonne Park early this damp, dark morning to a familiar sound, the scratching chips of a family of\u00a0northern cardinals. Nice, but no big deal AD 2014. The same birds would have been a big deal indeed just 75 years ago, when the northern limit of this familiar species&#8217; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/11\/the-cardinals-of-teaneck\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cardinals of Teaneck&#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":[63,52,64],"tags":[162,138,124,163,122,602],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747"}],"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=8747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8751,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747\/revisions\/8751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}