{"id":1193,"date":"2015-11-01T14:14:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T14:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2015-11-01T17:32:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T17:32:19","slug":"shape-trumps-plumage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"Raptors at a Distance: shape trumps plumage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One golden rule of thumb that I&#8217;ve learned from advanced and expert hawkwatchers is: shape trumps plumage! Plumage details are easily lost at a distance and\/or obscured by a variety of lighting conditions.<!--more--> It helps to understand shape and flight style; both of which require an in-field &#8220;feel&#8221; from many hours of study. Here&#8217;s a neat one: a Northern Goshawk &#8220;dressed&#8221; as a Cooper&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12191979_10205467658394788_8126270076841550329_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1194\" src=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12191979_10205467658394788_8126270076841550329_n-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"12191979_10205467658394788_8126270076841550329_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12191979_10205467658394788_8126270076841550329_n-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12191979_10205467658394788_8126270076841550329_n.jpg 925w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo<\/strong>: Note the overall massive build consisting of: thick wings with an extensive bulge to the secondaries (sinuous trailing edge); very broad chest and body (dwarfing the width of the head here); long and broad tail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One golden rule of thumb that I&#8217;ve learned from advanced and expert hawkwatchers is: shape trumps plumage! Plumage details are easily lost at a distance and\/or obscured by a variety of lighting conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}