{"id":10751,"date":"2014-06-02T08:26:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10751"},"modified":"2014-06-02T09:14:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T16:14:45","slug":"interruptus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10751","title":{"rendered":"Interruptus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You just cannot tell by the appearance of\u00a0some animals, certainly not by\u00a0that of\u00a0some birds. As far as I know, there are only a few\u00a0ways to tell the sex of a Bank\u00a0Swallow at\u00a0a distance: song (male), behaviour (burrow digging and mating), and who has a swollen cloacal protuberance (males during breeding season).<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0male Bank Swallow often attempts to mate with fertile females other than its mate. That is probably what is happening here,\u00a0where the sexes of the birds are worked out by looking at a sequence of pictures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A male Bank\u00a0Swallow approaches a female waiting\u00a0invitingly.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10756\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bankswallows140531as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He is about\u00a0to alight,<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10755\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bankswallows140531bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>when a rival\u00a0spots the\u00a0assignation and drives off the intruder.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10754\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bankswallows140531cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a short time, the first male\u00a0returns,<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10753\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bankswallows140531ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>only to be\u00a0driven off again. This time, his swollen\u00a0cloacal protuberance confirms his intentions.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10752\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bankswallows140531es.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Out of here.\u00a0<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10761\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bankswallow140531fs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; You just cannot tell by the appearance of\u00a0some animals, certainly not by\u00a0that of\u00a0some birds. As far as I know, there are only a few\u00a0ways to tell the sex of a Bank\u00a0Swallow at\u00a0a distance: song (male), behaviour (burrow digging and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10751\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10751"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10766,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751\/revisions\/10766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}