{"id":690,"date":"2012-04-24T19:56:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T19:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=690"},"modified":"2012-04-24T19:56:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T19:56:32","slug":"audubon-bird-of-the-week-vigorss-warbler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2012\/04\/24\/audubon-bird-of-the-week-vigorss-warbler\/","title":{"rendered":"Audubon &#8220;bird of the week,&#8221; Vigors&#8217;s Warbler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/04\/IMG_2247.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-691\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/04\/IMG_2247-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/04\/IMG_2247-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/04\/IMG_2247-819x1024.jpg 819w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/04\/IMG_2247.jpg 1446w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I regret that I am unable to give any account of the habits of a species which I have honoured with the name of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicholas_Aylward_Vigors\">naturalist<\/a> whose merits are so well known to the learned world.\u00a0 The individual represented in the plate I shot upwards of twenty years ago, and have never met with another of its kind.\u00a0 It was in the month of May, on a small island of the Perkioming [i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perkiomen_Creek\">Perkiomen<\/a>] Creek, forming part of my farm of Mill Grove, in the State of Pennsylvania.\u00a0 The bird was fluttering amongst grasses, uttering an often repeated <em>cheep<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The plant on which it is represented is that on which it was perched when I shot it, and is usually called <em>Spider-wort<\/em>.\u00a0 It grows in damp and shady places, as well as sometimes in barren lands, near the banks of brooks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013J. J. Audubon, <em>Ornithological Biography<\/em>, I (1831), 153  [excerpted].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I regret that I am unable to give any account of the habits of a species which I have honoured with the name of a naturalist whose merits are so well known to the learned world.\u00a0 The individual represented in the plate I shot upwards of twenty years ago, and have never met with another [&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\/690"}],"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=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}