{"id":8897,"date":"2014-07-07T03:55:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T10:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=8897"},"modified":"2014-07-05T14:18:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T21:18:39","slug":"lake-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/07\/lake-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Mourning Dove by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/14394629540\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3835\/14394629540_8674cce89b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Mourning Dove\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many pigeon species have strikingly colored feet when they are in breeding condition, and the familiar\u00a0<strong>mourning dove\u00a0<\/strong>is no exception.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/117494#page\/367\/mode\/1up\">Ridgway<\/a> calls\u00a0the tarsus and toes of adult males &#8220;lake red,&#8221; which\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/124300#page\/93\/mode\/1up\">he describes<\/a>\u00a0in his early <em>Nomenclature of Colors\u00a0<\/em>as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>purplish red &#8230; not so intense as crimson (Medium tint of madder-carmine.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/124300#page\/163\/mode\/1up\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8898\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screenshot-2014-07-05-17.06.44.png\" alt=\"Ridgwya 1886, Nomenclature\" width=\"242\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What does your eye say?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many pigeon species have strikingly colored feet when they are in breeding condition, and the familiar\u00a0mourning dove\u00a0is no exception. Ridgway calls\u00a0the tarsus and toes of adult males &#8220;lake red,&#8221; which\u00a0he describes\u00a0in his early Nomenclature of Colors\u00a0as purplish red &#8230; not so intense as crimson (Medium tint of madder-carmine.) What does your eye say? &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,36,52,64],"tags":[203,205,204,156,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897"}],"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=8897"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8902,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions\/8902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}