{"id":1297,"date":"2011-03-29T15:27:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T22:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2011-03-31T08:27:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:27:20","slug":"merlin-with-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1297","title":{"rendered":"Merlin with band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I saw my first Merlin of 2011. It was hunting at a place I have seen Merlins other years.\u00a0\u00a0(I thought I had found one earlier in the month, but that bird turned out to be a Sharp-shinned Hawk).<\/p>\n<p>Beyond my interest in just seeing the Merlin was the fact that the picture revealed that it had been banded. My guess is that for a local Merlin to wear a band, it would have received it near Boise where the Idaho Fish and Game has been studying the bird: the Merlin holds Idaho\u2019s ranking of a Species of Greatest Conservation Need. I will try to track this down.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1298\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/merlin110329s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I saw my first Merlin of 2011. It was hunting at a place I have seen Merlins other years.\u00a0\u00a0(I thought I had found one earlier in the month, but that bird turned out to be a Sharp-shinned Hawk). Beyond &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1297\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-1297","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\/1297","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=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}