{"id":1219,"date":"2013-04-19T20:41:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T20:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2013-04-19T20:41:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T20:41:12","slug":"the-indigo-bird-audubon-bird-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2013\/04\/19\/the-indigo-bird-audubon-bird-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indigo Bird (Audubon &#8220;bird of the week&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2578.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1220\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2578-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2578-237x300.jpg 237w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2578-809x1024.jpg 809w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2578.jpg 1326w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;The Indigo Bird arrives in the Southern States from the direction of Mexico, along with its relative the Painted Finch, and is caught in trap-cages, but with more difficulty than the latter bird.\u00a0 It spreads far and wide over the United States, extending from the borders of our Atlantic shores to those of our great lakes.\u00a0 It is not a forest bird, but prefers the skirts of the woods, the little detached thickets in and along the fields, the meadows, the gardens, and orchards, and is frequently seen hopping along, or perched on a fence, from which is does not disdain to send forth its pretty little song . . .<\/p>\n<p>I have represented an adult female, two young males of the first and second year, in autumn, and a male in the full beauty of its plumage.\u00a0 They are placed on a plant usually called the <em>Wild Sarsparilla<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013J. J. Audubon, <em>Ornithological Biography<\/em>, I (1831), 377-379 [excerpted].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Indigo Bird arrives in the Southern States from the direction of Mexico, along with its relative the Painted Finch, and is caught in trap-cages, but with more difficulty than the latter bird.\u00a0 It spreads far and wide over the United States, extending from the borders of our Atlantic shores to those of our great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,20,21,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219"}],"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=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}