{"id":14883,"date":"2015-09-06T07:56:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T14:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14883"},"modified":"2015-09-06T19:23:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T02:23:38","slug":"small-yellow-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14883","title":{"rendered":"Small yellow birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Carotenoids are the answer. The question is: What gives the yellow plumage of birds? (Think, Big Bird.)<\/p>\n<p>Carotenoids are pigments produced by plants. The pigments are transferred to insects\u00a0that eat those plants and are then available to birds that eat those insects. In birds, these pigments might be signals of fitness because they are derived from special diets which might be difficult to obtain. These pictures were taken this last week.<\/p>\n<p>A <s>juvenile<\/s> Cedar Waxwing shows a pale yellowish belly, but a distinctly yellowish tail.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14884\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cedarwaxwing150901s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The yellow plumage of this\u00a0immature male Common Yellowthroat will be even more spectacular when\u00a0the bird becomes an adult.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14885\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/commonyellowthroat150904s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Yellow-rumped Warbler eyes the photographer with suspicion.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14886\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/yellowrumpedwarbler150901s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Carotenoids are the answer. The question is: What gives the yellow plumage of birds? (Think, Big Bird.) Carotenoids are pigments produced by plants. The pigments are transferred to insects\u00a0that eat those plants and are then available to birds that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14883\">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-14883","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\/14883","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=14883"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14894,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14883\/revisions\/14894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}