{"id":345,"date":"2011-12-12T12:50:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T18:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=345"},"modified":"2019-03-29T13:17:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T18:17:58","slug":"still-more-snowy-owls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/still-more-snowy-owls\/","title":{"rendered":"Still More Snowy Owls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_346\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snowy_owl.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-346\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snowy_owl-300x225.png\" alt=\"Snowy Owl\" title=\"Snowy Owl\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snowy_owl-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snowy_owl-150x112.png 150w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snowy_owl.png 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowy Owl (<i>click to see a larger version<\/i>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Snowy Owl extravaganza continues at Montrose. Two birds were seen there over the weekend of December 10-11. I saw and photographed the bird at right on Sunday, December 11. Based on the heavy barring and complete tail bands I think this individual is a female. I&#8217;ve been birding for 34 years and this is one of the best years I can remember for Snowy Owls. To date, about 8 different Snowies have been seen at Montrose this fall and winter. The last major invasion of Snowy Owls into Illinois occurred in 1996-97.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting little tidbit about Snowy Owl taxonomy. For a long time the scientific name of Snowy Owl was Nyctea scandiaca. The generic name was changed recently to Bubo, which is the &#8220;eagle owl&#8221; genus and includes our Great Horned Owl. The thinking is that Snowy Owls are really derived eagle owls, adapted for life on the tundra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Snowy Owl extravaganza continues at Montrose. Two birds were seen there over the weekend of December 10-11. I saw and photographed the bird at right on Sunday, December 11. Based on the heavy barring and complete tail bands I think this individual is a female. I&#8217;ve been birding for 34 years and this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[57,73],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-bird-reports","tag-owls","tag-snowy-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}