{"id":33092,"date":"2018-05-02T18:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=33092"},"modified":"2018-05-02T18:00:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T18:00:54","slug":"bird-watching-actually-bird-listening-varied-thrush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/bird-watching-actually-bird-listening-varied-thrush\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird watching (actually, bird listening): varied thrush"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Keeping track of birds leads to self-tutoring: the tutor mentions the varied thrush.<\/h1>\n<p>Often, birds prefer to be heard, not seen. So it can be with the varied thrush, whose song I&#8217;ve heard in the yard, but haven&#8217;t seen from there. I believe I have seen one in the woods.<\/p>\n<p>Robins are thrushes, but the varied thrush is different: while orange and grey, its coloration is more complex, with bands of orange reaching more places. The varied thrush is more retiring than the robin, as well.<\/p>\n<p>The varied thrush has few calls. It can chirp rather like a robin, but its really noticeable call is a long, single note, which can be shrill, raspy, or sweet.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Robbins, Chandler et al. <i>Birds of North America<\/i>. Racine: Western Publishing Company, 1966.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Varied_Thrush\/sounds\">www.allaboutbirds.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping track of birds leads to self-tutoring: the tutor mentions the varied thrush. Often, birds prefer to be heard, not seen. So it can be with the varied thrush, whose song I&#8217;ve heard in the yard, but haven&#8217;t seen from &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/bird-watching-actually-bird-listening-varied-thrush\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bird watching (actually, bird listening): varied thrush<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1538,1],"tags":[2881],"class_list":["post-33092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-watching","category-uncategorized","tag-varied-thrush-call-song"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33092"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33116,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33092\/revisions\/33116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}