{"id":9801,"date":"2011-05-19T15:29:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/05\/19\/bird-migration\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T15:29:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:29:35","slug":"bird-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/19\/bird-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bird migration is a huge topic.  Super-Big.  Vast.  Overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>So, starting today, it is Bird Migration Week (running from Thursday to Thursday) on this blog.  I&#8217;ll be posting a number of quick reviews of bird-migration related books and a few other items, but for starters, I&#8217;ll send you over to 10,000 Birds for a post on bird migration.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To a birder, migration means that you can live in Minnesota, New York, Paris or Moscow and see exotic tropical birds such as Piranga olivacea and Icterus galbula on a regular basis without buying a plane ticket. The birds do the flying for you. Even if you don&#8217;t live in the summer range of a particular species, you may have opportunities to observe it while it passes through, especailly if you live in an active flyway, like I happen to. All of this leads to a longer life list, which is, after all, the entire point of bridwatching, right?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read all about it in <a href=\"http:\/\/10000birds.com\/migration-question.htm\">A Question of Migration.  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird migration is a huge topic. Super-Big. Vast. Overwhelming. So, starting today, it is Bird Migration Week (running from Thursday to Thursday) on this blog. I&#8217;ll be posting a number of quick reviews of bird-migration related books and a few other items, but for starters, I&#8217;ll send you over to 10,000 Birds for a post &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/19\/bird-migration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bird Migration<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2y5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}