{"id":1306,"date":"2013-05-31T16:22:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T16:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2013-05-31T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T16:22:05","slug":"the-prairie-titlark-audubon-bird-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2013\/05\/31\/the-prairie-titlark-audubon-bird-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prairie Titlark (Audubon &#8220;bird of the week&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/05\/IMG_2618.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1307\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/05\/IMG_2618-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/05\/IMG_2618-300x182.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/05\/IMG_2618-1024x622.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I shot two of these birds whilst traversing one of the extensive prairies of our North-western States.\u00a0 Five of them had been running along the foot-path before me, for some time.\u00a0 I at first looked upon them as of the Common Brown Titlark species (<em>Anthus Spinoletta<\/em>), but as they rose on the wing, the difference of their notes struck me, and, shooting at them, I had the good fortune to kill two, which I discovered, on examination, to be of a new and distinct species, although in the general appearance of their plumage they were very nearly allied to the Brown Titlark.\u00a0 The rest I pursued in vain, and was forced to abandon the chase on account of the approach of night, and the necessity of preparing for a rest after a long walk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013J. J. Audubon, <em>Ornithological Biography<\/em>, I (1831), 408 [excerpted].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I shot two of these birds whilst traversing one of the extensive prairies of our North-western States.\u00a0 Five of them had been running along the foot-path before me, for some time.\u00a0 I at first looked upon them as of the Common Brown Titlark species (Anthus Spinoletta), but as they rose on the wing, the difference [&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\/1306"}],"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=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}