{"id":7647,"date":"2013-05-06T07:26:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T14:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7647"},"modified":"2013-05-06T07:35:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T14:35:21","slug":"western-kingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7647","title":{"rendered":"Western Kingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last August, I saw my first <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6131\">Eastern Kingbird<\/a>; last week I saw my first Western Kingbird.<\/p>\n<p>With geographically inspired names, one might think that the eastern bird would be found exclusively in eastern North America, and the western, exclusively in the west. However, the Eastern Kingbird is found across the continent, and while the Western Kingbird is predominantly in the west, it is also found in the east, especially during migration.<\/p>\n<p>Both eastern and western birds are flycatchers, albeit rather large ones. They perch and watch until the prey is spotted and then fly after it.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7648\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/westernkingbird130503bs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Western Kingbird is carrying a twig&#8212;probably to serve as nest material.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7649\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/westernkingbird130503as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Last August, I saw my first Eastern Kingbird; last week I saw my first Western Kingbird. With geographically inspired names, one might think that the eastern bird would be found exclusively in eastern North America, and the western, exclusively &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7647\">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-7647","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\/7647","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=7647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7652,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions\/7652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}