{"id":1004349,"date":"2012-09-01T11:25:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T16:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1004349"},"modified":"2012-09-01T15:57:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T20:57:34","slug":"mystery-bird-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2012\/09\/01\/mystery-bird-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite watching this bird for about an hour last week, and taking many photos, it took me a really long time to decide what it was. I&#8217;m not going to name it because I&#8217;m still only 90% sure:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mysterybird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mysterybird.jpg\" alt=\"Mystery Bird\" title=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1004350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mysterybird.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mysterybird-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hint #1: This was in southwestern Florida, at Little Estero Lagoon.<\/p>\n<p>Hint #2: Before you make a decision, be sure to verify every field mark: bill color, bill shape, leg color, foot color, etc. There are at least four species that are tantalizingly close to matching this individual, except for a single field mark. <\/p>\n<p>In the end, I&#8217;m pretty sure this is a bird I didn&#8217;t even know existed before this week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite watching this bird for about an hour last week, and taking many photos, it took me a really long time to decide what it was. I&#8217;m not going to name it because I&#8217;m still only 90% sure:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004349","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=1004349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004352,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004349\/revisions\/1004352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}