{"id":8475,"date":"2012-04-19T02:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T00:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=8475"},"modified":"2014-11-27T21:50:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T20:50:38","slug":"rusty-blackbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/rusty-blackbirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rusty Blackbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t give Rusty Blackbirds enough credit previously. I like these guys. I like ’em a lot. Look at the lady, she’s beautiful! I’ve got too many things to do today – like run and pack (I’m moving to Austin for the field season to give my Golden-cheeked Warbler buddies some more attention). I finally got new running shoes, some of the Merrell barefoot ones, I’m kind of excited about it. Now I skeedaddle.<\/p>\n

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The Rusty Blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, is a medium-sized blackbird, closely related to grackles (Rusty Grackle is an older name for the species).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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These birds migrate to the eastern and southeastern United States, into parts of the Grain Belt, sometimes straying into Mexico.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Their breeding habitat is wet temperate coniferous forests and muskeg across Canada and Alaska.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Jill Wussow Photography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t give Rusty Blackbirds enough credit previously. I like these guys. I like ’em a lot. Look at the lady, she’s beautiful! I’ve got too many things to do today – like run and pack (I’m moving to Austin for the field season to give my Golden-cheeked Warbler buddies some more attention). I finally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":8459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rusty5.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}