{"id":737,"date":"2012-05-11T19:43:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T19:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=737"},"modified":"2012-05-11T19:43:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T19:43:49","slug":"the-american-goldfinch-audubon-bird-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2012\/05\/11\/the-american-goldfinch-audubon-bird-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Goldfinch (Audubon &#8220;bird of the week&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_2255.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-740\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_2255-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_2255-250x300.jpg 250w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_2255-854x1024.jpg 854w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_2255.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>. . . A few breed in Kentucky and the State of Ohio, but the Middle Districts are their principal places of resort during summer, although they extend their migrations to a high latitude.<\/p>\n<p>. . . So fond of each other\u2019s company are they, that a party of them passing on the wing will alter its course at the calling of a single one perched on a tree.\u00a0 This call is uttered with much emphasis . . . no sooner has the flock, previously on wing, alighted, than the whole party plume themselves, and then perform a little sweet concert.\u00a0 So much does the song of our Goldfinch resemble that of the European species, that whilst in France and England, I have frequently thought, that they were the notes of our own bird which I heard.<\/p>\n<p>. . . In ascending along the shores of the Mohawk river, in the month of August, I have met more of these pretty birds in the course of a day\u2019s walk than anywhere else . . . for a considerable space along the Gennessee river, the shores of Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, and even Lake Superior, I have always seen many of them in the latter part of summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013J. J. Audubon, <em>Ornithological Biography<\/em>, I (1831), 172-174  [excerpted].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . A few breed in Kentucky and the State of Ohio, but the Middle Districts are their principal places of resort during summer, although they extend their migrations to a high latitude. . . . So fond of each other\u2019s company are they, that a party of them passing on the wing will [&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\/737"}],"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=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}