{"id":6386,"date":"2024-04-01T12:17:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2024-04-01T12:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:24:21","slug":"ground-nesting-birds-2024-intro-1apr2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=6386","title":{"rendered":"Ground-Nesting Birds 2024: Intro  1Apr2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6353\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-01-at-10.59.25-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6353\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6353\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-01-at-10.59.25-AM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Dark-eyed Junco<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>INTRO<\/strong> (Apr 1, 2024)<\/p>\n<p>Spring is in the air&#8230; and underfoot<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right, we said \u201cunderfoot\u201d and we\u2019re not talking about a budding crocus\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few months, we will be sharing profiles of four ground-nesting bird species found in the Backlands. Wondering what a ground nest looks like? When you\u00a0might spot a nestling? What they eat? Where they will go in the winter?<\/p>\n<p>Have you noticed the birds have started to sing? These \u2018early birds\u2019 are staking out their territories and hoping to attract a mate. Soon, eggs\u00a0will be laid in carefully\u00a0hidden nests all over the Backlands, but not all these nests are in trees.<\/p>\n<p>Several of our most familiar (and threatened!) birds nest right on the ground where eggs and young are very vulnerable to being eaten or trampled&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few months, we will be sharing profiles of four ground-nesting bird species found in the Backlands.\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?page_id=6340\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTRO (Apr 1, 2024) Spring is in the air&#8230; and underfoot That\u2019s right, we said \u201cunderfoot\u201d and we\u2019re not talking about a budding crocus\u2026 Over the next few months, we will be sharing profiles of four ground-nesting bird species found &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=6386\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-conservation","category-nature-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6391,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions\/6391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}