{"id":1275,"date":"2013-05-09T19:26:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T19:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2013-05-09T19:26:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T19:26:29","slug":"the-belted-kingfisher-audubon-bird-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2013\/05\/09\/the-belted-kingfisher-audubon-bird-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Belted Kingfisher (Audubon &#8220;bird of the week&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/05\/IMG_2607.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1276\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/05\/IMG_2607-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/05\/IMG_2607-278x300.jpg 278w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/05\/IMG_2607-949x1024.jpg 949w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/05\/IMG_2607.jpg 1725w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;The more usual range of the Belted Kingfisher . . . is confined to the rivers and creeks that abound throughout the United States; all of which, according to the seasons, are amply supplied with various fishes, on the fry of which this bird feeds.\u00a0 It follows their course up to the very source of the small rivulets; and it is not unusual to hear the hard, rapid, rattling notes of our Kingfisher, even amongst the murmuring cascades of our higher mountains.\u00a0 When the bird is found in such sequestered situations, well may the angler be assured that trout is abundant.\u00a0 Mill-ponds are also favorite resorts of the Kingfisher, the usual calmness of the water in such places permitting it to discover its prey with ease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013J. J. Audubon, <em>Ornithological Biography<\/em>, I (1831), 395 [excerpted].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The more usual range of the Belted Kingfisher . . . is confined to the rivers and creeks that abound throughout the United States; all of which, according to the seasons, are amply supplied with various fishes, on the fry of which this bird feeds.\u00a0 It follows their course up to the very source of [&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\/1275"}],"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=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}