{"id":9760,"date":"2015-02-03T08:05:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T15:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=9760"},"modified":"2018-07-30T08:45:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T15:45:44","slug":"burke-at-125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/03\/burke-at-125\/","title":{"rendered":"Burke at 125"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sora.unm.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/journals\/auk\/v068n03\/p0406-p0410.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9761\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screenshot-2015-02-03-09.41.05.png\" alt=\"Edgar Burke, American black ducks\" width=\"465\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screenshot-2015-02-03-09.41.05.png 465w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screenshot-2015-02-03-09.41.05-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today marks the 125th birthday of Edgar Burke. Head of surgery at the Jersey City Hospital, he was an enthusiastic rod-and-gun man, and a painter of respectable accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>Anglers still know him for his paintings of flies and other fishing gear, and pigeon fanciers remember Burke&#8217;s work with the &#8220;pigeoneers&#8221; in World War II.<\/p>\n<p>And birders? New Jersey birders? Anyone?<\/p>\n<p>I can almost hear the heads shaking. But think back, and I&#8217;m sure nearly all of us have had at least a quick flip through John Alden Knight&#8217;s little book <i>Woodcock.\u00a0<\/i>Published in 1944, there&#8217;s really not much to it unless you&#8217;re a woodcock hunter &#8212; or like handsome pictures\u00a0of shorebirds. Worth checking out next time you&#8217;re in a used bookstore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screenshot-2015-02-03-10.05.12.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9762\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screenshot-2015-02-03-10.05.12.png\" alt=\"cover, Knight, Woodcock\" width=\"403\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screenshot-2015-02-03-10.05.12.png 403w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screenshot-2015-02-03-10.05.12-262x300.png 262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 125th birthday of Edgar Burke. Head of surgery at the Jersey City Hospital, he was an enthusiastic rod-and-gun man, and a painter of respectable accomplishment. Anglers still know him for his paintings of flies and other fishing gear, and pigeon fanciers remember Burke&#8217;s work with the &#8220;pigeoneers&#8221; in World War II. And &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/03\/burke-at-125\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Burke at 125&#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":[63,38,52,64],"tags":[404,138,402,403],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760"}],"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=9760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9763,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions\/9763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}