{"id":9123,"date":"2014-08-26T05:53:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T12:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=9123"},"modified":"2014-08-26T05:59:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T12:59:40","slug":"the-originals-february-19-at-the-dvoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/26\/the-originals-february-19-at-the-dvoc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Originals: February 19 at the DVOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Originals: Reading the First Descriptions of North American Birds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the magic of the internet, the original descriptions of most of the world&#8217;s birds &#8212; long buried in the stacks of far-flung libraries &#8212; are now at our fingertips. Some are just as dusty and dry as you might expect, but many provide answers to questions we might not even have thought to ask. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvoc.org\/Main.htm\">Join me for a tour<\/a> of the fascinating, often surprising stories hidden in the first descriptions of some of our most familiar birds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/10277#page\/110\/mode\/1up\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9120\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screenshot-2014-08-26-08.47.50.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2014-08-26 08.47.50\" width=\"462\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screenshot-2014-08-26-08.47.50.png 462w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screenshot-2014-08-26-08.47.50-241x300.png 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And yes, I considered an entire evening of just Linnaean footnotes.This one is among my all-time favorites:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The genus Strix differs from the genus Falco in the same way a moth differs from a butterfly: the one is diurnal, the other nocturnal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Originals: Reading the First Descriptions of North American Birds Thanks to the magic of the internet, the original descriptions of most of the world&#8217;s birds &#8212; long buried in the stacks of far-flung libraries &#8212; are now at our fingertips. Some are just as dusty and dry as you might expect, but many provide &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/26\/the-originals-february-19-at-the-dvoc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Originals: February 19 at the DVOC&#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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123"}],"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=9123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9127,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123\/revisions\/9127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}