{"id":1001294,"date":"2008-07-08T08:06:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T13:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1001294"},"modified":"2008-07-08T08:06:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T13:06:51","slug":"desert-cottontails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2008\/07\/08\/desert-cottontails\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Cottontails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/desertcottontails.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"desertcottontails\" width=\"900\" height=\"700\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1001295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/desertcottontails.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/desertcottontails-150x116.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><br \/>\nDesert Cottontail, <i>Sylvilagus audubonii<\/i><br \/>\nWilliam R. Mason Regional Park, 2008-07-07<\/p>\n<p>These rabbits are all over Orange County. It took me a while to ID them though.<br \/>\nAt first I thought they might be released pets like the rabbits back home in Prospect Park, but apparently they&#8217;re native. Despite the name, they seem to do quite well in local well-irrigated suburban parks, subdivisions, and chaparral. <\/p>\n<p>The key fieldmark by which you can recognize them is the rufous fur on the back of the neck and the forelegs. The tail also shows a dark patch which isn&#8217;t present in an Eastern Cottontail or a Brush Rabbit, but that&#8217;s not always obvious if they have their tail tucked up as they usually do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desert Cottontail, Sylvilagus audubonii William R. Mason Regional Park, 2008-07-07 These rabbits are all over Orange County. It took me a while to ID them though. At first I thought they might be released pets like the rabbits back home in Prospect Park, but apparently they&#8217;re native. Despite the name, they seem to do quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001294","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=1001294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}