{"id":3351,"date":"2020-01-01T16:23:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T22:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2020-02-26T17:15:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T23:15:57","slug":"2019-birding-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/2019-birding-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Birds &amp; Birding Recap (it was a very good year)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2019 was a phenomenal year for birds and birding at Montrose, both for migration and the number of rarities and vagrants seen. We also had a historic nesting record. I can&#8217;t remember a more exciting year, and I&#8217;ve been birding Montrose for over 40 years. Some of the notable happenings include (underlined text points to a story on this blog)<\/p>\n<ul class=\"recent-additions\">\n<li><i class=\"fa fa-check\"><\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/ancient-murrelet\/\">Ancient Murrelet<\/a> (first site record, fourth state record)<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa fa-check\"><\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/cassins-kingbird\/\">Cassin&#8217;s Kingbird<\/a> (first site record, first state record)<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa fa-check\"><\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/long-billed-curlew\/\">Long-billed Curlew<\/a> (first site record, first state record in 40+ years)<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa fa-check\"><\/i> Black Vulture (first site record)<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa fa-check\"><\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/barred-owl\/\">Barred Owl<\/a> (first site record)<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa fa-check\"><\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/townsends-warbler\/\">Townsend&#8217;s Warbler<\/a> (second site record)<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa fa-check\"><\/i> Snowy Plover (third site record)<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa fa-check\"><\/i> Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (second site record)<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa fa-check\"><\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/nesting-piping-plovers\/\">Nesting Piping Plovers<\/a> (first successful nesting in Chicago in over 50 years)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By my tally, at least five new species were added to the list of birds recorded at Montrose, bringing the total to 348. This is above the 2-3 yearly average for the last few years. I&#8217;m not sure why 2019 was so special but 350 is within striking distance and will likely happen in 2020. To see a list of birds recorded at Montrose, see the Montrose List page on this site, URL below.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/the-montrose-list\/\">The Montrose List<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 was a phenomenal year for birds and birding at Montrose, both for migration and the number of rarities and vagrants seen. We also had a historic nesting record. I can&#8217;t remember a more exciting year, and I&#8217;ve been birding Montrose for over 40 years. Some of the notable happenings include (underlined text points to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3419,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions\/3419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}