{"id":1000928,"date":"2007-10-21T12:15:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T17:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/10\/21\/american-bird-grasshopper\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T10:39:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T15:39:18","slug":"american-bird-grasshopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/10\/21\/american-bird-grasshopper\/","title":{"rendered":"American Bird Grasshopper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/americanbirdgrasshopper.JPG' alt='Large, colorful, grasshopper' width='640' height='480' \/><br \/>\nAmerican Bird Grasshopper, <i>Schistocerca americana<\/i><br \/>\nRidgewood Reservoir, Queens, NY, 2007-10-20<\/p>\n<p>Steve Nanz found and later ID&#8217;d  this monster yesterday at Ridgewood Reservoir. It&#8217;s one of the largest grasshoppers in North America. When spooked, it flies into a nearby tree, hence the name. It&#8217;s uncommon to rare this far north. Neither Steve nor I had ever seen one before. It seems to be more of a southern species. Possibly like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/10\/20\/red-banded-hairstreak\/\">yesterday&#8217;s Red-banded Hairstreak<\/a>, global warming may be pushing its range north.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Other insect species at the reservoir yesterday included Green Darner dragonflies and Orange Sulphur and Monarch butterflies, though it&#8217;s starting to get a little late in the season for our six-legged friends. Avian species included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>  \tCommon Loon<\/li>\n<li> \tNorthern Harrier \t<\/li>\n<li> \tSharp-shinned Hawk \t<\/li>\n<li> \tMerlin \t<\/li>\n<li> \tHerring Gull \t<\/li>\n<li> \tMourning Dove \t<\/li>\n<li> \tRed-bellied Woodpecker \t<\/li>\n<li> \tDowny Woodpecker \t<\/li>\n<li> \tHairy Woodpecker \t<\/li>\n<li> \tNorthern Flicker \t<\/li>\n<li> \tEastern Phoebe \t<\/li>\n<li> \tBlue-headed Vireo \t<\/li>\n<li> \tBlue Jay \t<\/li>\n<li> \tBlack-capped Chickadee \t<\/li>\n<li> \tRed-breasted Nuthatch \t<\/li>\n<li> \tWhite-breasted Nuthatch \t<\/li>\n<li> \tCarolina Wren \t<\/li>\n<li> \tWinter Wren \t<\/li>\n<li> \tRuby-crowned Kinglet \t<\/li>\n<li> \tAmerican Robin \t<\/li>\n<li> \tGray Catbird \t<\/li>\n<li> \tEuropean Starling \t<\/li>\n<li> \tNorthern Parula \t<\/li>\n<li> \tYellow-rumped Warbler \t<\/li>\n<li> \tAmerican Redstart \t<\/li>\n<li> \tCommon Yellowthroat \t<\/li>\n<li> \tChipping Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<li> \tField Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<li> \tVesper Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<li> \tSong Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<li> \tSwamp Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<li> \tWhite-throated Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<li> \tNorthern Cardinal \t<\/li>\n<li> \tRed-winged Blackbird \t<\/li>\n<li> \tCommon Grackle \t<\/li>\n<li> \tPurple Finch <\/li>\n<li>Wood Thrush<\/li>\n<li>Hermit Thrush<\/li>\n<li>Yellow-bellied Sapsucker<\/li>\n<li>American Woodcock\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sparrows were especially common. There were hundreds of White-throated Sparrows and dozens each of Song and Swamp Sparrows. Also both groups found Woodcocks yesterday. The North 40 at Floyd Bennett Field is probably still the best woodcock habitat in the city, but Ridgewood Reservoir is starting to feel like a close second.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Bird Grasshopper, Schistocerca americana Ridgewood Reservoir, Queens, NY, 2007-10-20 Steve Nanz found and later ID&#8217;d this monster yesterday at Ridgewood Reservoir. It&#8217;s one of the largest grasshoppers in North America. When spooked, it flies into a nearby tree, hence the name. It&#8217;s uncommon to rare this far north. Neither Steve nor I had ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,41],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-bugs","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000928","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=1000928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}