{"id":9268,"date":"2014-09-30T05:49:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T12:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=9268"},"modified":"2014-09-30T05:49:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T12:49:18","slug":"do-you-hear-hoofbeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/30\/do-you-hear-hoofbeats\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Hear Hoofbeats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gellert and I are used to running into interesting birds on his walks: in just the past couple of weeks, we&#8217;ve seen a fine peregrine falcon, a common raven, and a smattering of the commoner southbound warblers. This morning, though, we came across something totally unexpected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/172464#page\/48\/mode\/1up\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9269\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot-2014-09-30-08.37.55.png\" alt=\"Gould, SynAust, Zebra Finch\" width=\"498\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot-2014-09-30-08.37.55.png 498w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot-2014-09-30-08.37.55-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We screeched to a halt when a tiny, short-tailed gray <i>thing\u00a0<\/i>flushed from the roadside into a low tree, and were startled to see a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/60160#page\/249\/mode\/1up\">zebra finch<\/a> looking back at us.<\/p>\n<p>It was a long flight on those short wings from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdlife.org\/datazone\/speciesfactsheet.php?id=8678\">this species&#8217; native range<\/a>. Or do you suppose &#8212; just suppose &#8212; that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petsmart.com\/live-pet\/live-birds\/zebra-finch-zid36-4041022\/cat-36-catid-700005\">somebody left a window open<\/a> last night?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oakspring.org\/vieillot.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9270\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot-2014-09-30-08.45.29.png\" alt=\"Vieillot, OisChant, Zebra Finch\" width=\"455\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot-2014-09-30-08.45.29.png 455w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot-2014-09-30-08.45.29-300x220.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gellert and I are used to running into interesting birds on his walks: in just the past couple of weeks, we&#8217;ve seen a fine peregrine falcon, a common raven, and a smattering of the commoner southbound warblers. This morning, though, we came across something totally unexpected. We screeched to a halt when a tiny, short-tailed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/30\/do-you-hear-hoofbeats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do You Hear Hoofbeats?&#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":[63,52,64,2],"tags":[138,124,280,279,282,602,281],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268"}],"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=9268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9271,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268\/revisions\/9271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}