{"id":1077,"date":"2012-12-17T20:08:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T20:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2012-12-17T20:08:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T20:08:52","slug":"the-carbonated-warbler-audubon-bird-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2012\/12\/17\/the-carbonated-warbler-audubon-bird-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Carbonated Warbler (Audubon &#8220;bird of the week&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_2477.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1078\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_2477-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_2477-235x300.jpg 235w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_2477-803x1024.jpg 803w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_2477.jpg 1161w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I shot the two little birds here represented, near the village of Henderson, in the State of Kentucky, in May 1811.\u00a0 They were both busily engaged in searching for insects along the branches and amongst the leaves of a Dog-wood tree.\u00a0 Their motions were those common to all the species of the genus<em> Sylvia<\/em>. On examination, they were found to be both males.\u00a0 I am of opinion, that they were both young birds of the preceding year, and not in full plumage, as they had no part of their dress seemingly complete, excepting the head.\u00a0 Not having met with any other individuals of the species, I am at this moment unable to say anything more about them.\u00a0 They were drawn, like all the other birds which I have represented, immediately after being killed; but the branch on which you see them was not added until the following summer.<\/p>\n<p>The common name of this plant is <em>Service Tree.\u00a0 <\/em>It seldom attains a greater height than thirty or forty feet, and is usually found in hilly ground of secondary quality.\u00a0 The berries are agreeable to the taste, and are sought after by many species of birds, amongst which the Red-headed Woodpecker is very conspicuous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013J. J. Audubon, <em>Ornithological Biography<\/em>, I (1831), 308 [excerpted].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I shot the two little birds here represented, near the village of Henderson, in the State of Kentucky, in May 1811.\u00a0 They were both busily engaged in searching for insects along the branches and amongst the leaves of a Dog-wood tree.\u00a0 Their motions were those common to all the species of the genus Sylvia. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}