{"id":4041,"date":"2022-12-21T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=4041"},"modified":"2022-12-21T15:46:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T19:46:30","slug":"birds-in-the-backlands-indicators-of-the-health-of-the-habitat-21dec2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=4041","title":{"rendered":"Birds in the Backlands: Indicators of the Health of the Habitat 21Dec2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3591\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/JBDredBreatsedNuthatch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3591\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3591\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/JBDredBreatsedNuthatch-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/JBDredBreatsedNuthatch-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/JBDredBreatsedNuthatch-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/JBDredBreatsedNuthatch-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/JBDredBreatsedNuthatch.jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Red-breasted Nuthatch<\/strong>, an old forest species,<br \/>in the stands of old pine near the Williams<br \/>Lake Dam in theShaw Wilderness Park where<br \/>they nest.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Backlands Birders Joshua Barss Donham and Fulton Lavender prepared presentations on the theme &#8220;Birds in the Backlands: Indicators of the Health of the Habitat&#8221; for a Backlands Ecology Workshop that we held recently.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?page_id=3963\">Forest Birds in the Backlands<\/a>, Joshua looks at how many bird species characteristic of immature, regenerating, and mature (old) forest occur in the Backlands. It turns out they are all well represented, reflecting the mosaic nature of Backlands habitats.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3636\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CommonNighthawk-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3636\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3636\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CommonNighthawk-copy-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CommonNighthawk-copy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CommonNighthawk-copy-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CommonNighthawk-copy-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CommonNighthawk-copy.jpg 1346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>The Common Nighthawk<\/strong>, a Species-at-Risk in Nova Scotia, nests on barrens in the Backlands<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fulton Lavender looks at two groups of specialist birds: <a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?page_id=3966\">Goatsuckers and Raptors,<\/a> again, both,\u00a0 and the former uniquely, represented in the Backlands<\/p>\n<p>So they give us more to celebrate about <em>our<\/em> Backlands, and incentive for us to work to ensure that the next seven generations can do the same.<\/p>\n<p><em>Many Thanks,\u00a0 Joshua &amp; Fulton.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backlands Birders Joshua Barss Donham and Fulton Lavender prepared presentations on the theme &#8220;Birds in the Backlands: Indicators of the Health of the Habitat&#8221; for a Backlands Ecology Workshop that we held recently. In Forest Birds in the Backlands, Joshua &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=4041\">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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4053,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions\/4053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}