{"id":2098,"date":"2016-03-10T21:36:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T21:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2016-03-10T21:36:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T21:36:01","slug":"northern-vs-loggerhead-shrike-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=2098","title":{"rendered":"Northern vs. Loggerhead Shrike ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come late March, southern Ontario birders could at some point be faced with a &#8220;Is that a Loggerhead or a Northern?&#8221; ID challenge while studying a distant shrike.<!--more--> The two species can overlap from the third week of March through until, say, late April (rough average). Here&#8217;s an excellent paper, written by Ron Pittaway, which provides useful considerations and expert points re: Northern vs. Loggerhead Shrike identification.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofo.ca\/site\/page\/view\/articles.shrikeid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.ofo.ca\/<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">site\/page\/view\/articles.shrikeid<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/001-1024x609.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2099\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2099\" src=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/001-1024x609-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"001 (1024x609)\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/001-1024x609-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/001-1024x609-768x457.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/001-1024x609.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p><strong>Photo<\/strong>: Northern Shrike. Loyalist, Ont. 9 March 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come late March, southern Ontario birders could at some point be faced with a &#8220;Is that a Loggerhead or a Northern?&#8221; ID challenge while studying a distant shrike.<\/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-2098","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\/2098","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=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}