{"id":110183,"date":"2014-10-27T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebirdersreport.com\/?p=6038"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:48:19","slug":"swainsons-hawks-are-threatened-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/swainsons-hawks-are-threatened-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Swainson\u2019s Hawks Are Threatened in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Swainson’s Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) is listed as threatened in California.<\/p>\n

Its numbers have declined significantly in parts of the western United States; and in the western Canadian prairie, reproduction of the Swainson’s Hawk has dropped since the mid-1980s, following a decline in its main prey species, Richardson’s ground squirrel.<\/p>\n

In 1995, satellite telemetry was used for the first time to investigate Swainson Hawk migration; these studies revealed that thousands of these hawks were dying in Argentina as a result of the use of pesticides.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Swainson’s Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) photo by Larry Jordan<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Swainson’s Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) is listed as threatened in California. Its numbers have declined significantly in parts of the western United States; and in the western Canadian prairie, reproduction of the Swainson’s Hawk has dropped since the mid-1980s, following a decline in its main prey species, Richardson’s ground squirrel. In 1995, satellite telemetry was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":2148378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[4691,1984,2419,834],"class_list":["post-110183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-california","tag-ground-squirrel","tag-larry-jordan","tag-swainsons-hawk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}