{"id":6654,"date":"2012-11-08T16:52:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T00:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6654"},"modified":"2012-11-08T21:37:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T05:37:36","slug":"provincial-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6654","title":{"rendered":"Provincial bird"},"content":{"rendered":"

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British Columbia has an remarkably long list of provincial symbols<\/a>. Its approved symbols include a mammal (a Spirit Bear—merely a cream-coated Black Bear), gemstone (Jade), tartan (BC), tree (Western Red Cedar), flower (Pacific Dogwood), and bird (Steller’s Jay).<\/p>\n

It is unclear to me why anyone would feel a need for this\u00a0multiplicity\u00a0of contrivances. Should we expect entomologists to lobby for a provincial insect? Come on mycologists, how about a provincial fungus? Will ichthyologists sulk over having been neglected? Would meteorologists support the adoption of a provincial cloud? Sigh….<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, we do have a Provincial Bird, and it is one that abounds—I see a number of then virtually every day of the year. Indeed, it is so common that I rarely point my camera in its direction anymore. The Steller’s Jay is a bird of western North America—essentially anywhere west of the Continental Divide. So, it is ours, and today, I tried another portrait.<\/p>\n

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  British Columbia has an remarkably long list of provincial symbols. Its approved symbols include a mammal (a Spirit Bear—merely a cream-coated Black Bear), gemstone (Jade), tartan (BC), tree (Western Red Cedar), flower (Pacific Dogwood), and bird (Steller’s Jay). It … Continue reading →<\/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":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654","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=6654"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6662,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654\/revisions\/6662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}