{"id":1000724,"date":"2007-07-07T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/07\/07\/fowlers-toad\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T10:21:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T15:21:36","slug":"fowlers-toad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/pop-culture\/movies\/2007\/07\/07\/fowlers-toad\/","title":{"rendered":"Fowler&#8217;s Toad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/fowlerstoad.JPG' alt='Fowler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Toad' width='640' height='519' \/><\/p>\n<p>Fowler&#8217;s Toad, <i>Bufo woodhousii fowleri<\/i><br \/>\nRobert Moses State Park, 2007-07-07<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWhen I was growing up  I was interested in herps (reptiles and amphibians) long before I got seriously interested in birds. However when I moved north, New York just wasn&#8217;t as good a place to find snakes and lizards as the swamps of South Louisiana. Nonetheless this year I&#8217;ve added two new species to my herp list. First the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/06\/09\/giant-italian-lizards-invade-queens\/\">Italian Ruin Lizard<\/a> and now this beautiful Fowler&#8217;s Toad. (Well, maybe you have to be another toad to see the beauty in it.) There were quite a few of these all over Jones Beach today around the Nature Center. <\/p>\n<p>I was out at Jones Beach looking for a recently reported Yellow-headed Blackbird. I didn&#8217;t find it, but I did spot 27 other avian species:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great Blue Heron<\/li>\n<li>Semipalmated Plover<\/li>\n<li>Killdeer<\/li>\n<li>American Oystercatcher<\/li>\n<li>Laughing Gull<\/li>\n<li>Ring-billed Gull<\/li>\n<li>Herring Gull<\/li>\n<li>Great Black-backed Gull<\/li>\n<li>Common Tern<\/li>\n<li>Rock Pigeon<\/li>\n<li>Mourning Dove<\/li>\n<li>Fish Crow<\/li>\n<li>Tree Swallow<\/li>\n<li>Barn Swallow<\/li>\n<li>American Robin<\/li>\n<li>Gray Catbird<\/li>\n<li>Northern Mockingbird<\/li>\n<li>Brown Thrasher<\/li>\n<li>European Starling<\/li>\n<li>Yellow Warbler<\/li>\n<li>Common Yellowthroat<\/li>\n<li>Eastern Towhee<\/li>\n<li>Song Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>Red-winged Blackbird<\/li>\n<li>Brown-headed Cowbird<\/li>\n<li>American Goldfinch<\/li>\n<li>House Sparrow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There were also large numbers of Cabbage Whites, Red Admirals, and Orange Sulphurs as well as a single Monarch Butterfly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fowler&#8217;s Toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri Robert Moses State Park, 2007-07-07<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,5,42,6],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reptiles-nature","category-movies","category-nature","category-software-development","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}