{"id":1236,"date":"2013-04-23T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2013-04-23T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T18:22:28","slug":"le-petit-caporal-audubon-bird-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2013\/04\/23\/le-petit-caporal-audubon-bird-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Petit Caporal (Audubon &#8220;bird of the week&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2579.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1237\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2579-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2579-206x300.jpg 206w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2579-703x1024.jpg 703w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2579.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;This beautiful little hawk appears to be nearly allied to the European Hobby (<em>Falco Subbuteo<\/em>, Linn.) and is not inferior to that species in spirit and activity.\u00a0 I procured the individual represented, in April 1812, near Flatland Ford in Pennsylvania, whilst in pursuit of a Dove, which it would doubtless have secured, had I not terminated its career.\u00a0 When I first discovered this species, the individual was standing perched on an old fence-stake, in the position in which it is figured.\u00a0 Never having met with another of its kind, I conclude that it is extremely rare in the United States.\u00a0 Of its nest or young I am unable to say anything at present.<\/p>\n<p>The name which I have given to this new and rare species was chosen at the time when <em>Napoleon Le Grand<\/em> was in the zenith of his glory.\u00a0 Every body knows that his soldiers frequently designated him by the nickname of <em>Le Petit Caporal<\/em>, which I thought more suitable to our <em>little<\/em> Hawk, than the names Napoleon or Bonaparte, which I should have adopted, had I been so fortunate as to procure a new Eagle.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013J. J. Audubon, <em>Ornithological Biography<\/em>, I (1831), 381 [excerpted].<\/p>\n<p>[Curator&#8217;s note: this bird is actually a Merlin]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This beautiful little hawk appears to be nearly allied to the European Hobby (Falco Subbuteo, Linn.) and is not inferior to that species in spirit and activity.\u00a0 I procured the individual represented, in April 1812, near Flatland Ford in Pennsylvania, whilst in pursuit of a Dove, which it would doubtless have secured, had I not [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236"}],"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=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}