{"id":824,"date":"2005-11-20T18:05:33","date_gmt":"2005-11-20T22:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=824"},"modified":"2005-11-30T19:08:28","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T23:08:28","slug":"birds-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"Birds then."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span><a href=\".\/wp-content\/bi_rds.jpg\"><img src='.\/wp-content\/thumb-bi_rds.jpg' alt='uh---bi_rds' class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>ith the killing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodemus.nl\/\">of a house sparrow in The Netherlands<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/4450958.stm\">English speaking people go here<\/a>),  I was suprised to find out that in Holland, the common house sparrow had been put on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/House_Sparrow\">endangered species list<\/a>. <em>They are?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, these litle critters are. They can be cute in a way, particularly when eating a sandwich. You give some to one lonely looking sparrow, next moment they&#8217;ve invited their whole extended family.\n<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re not as common over here though and they definitely don&#8217;t look like the ones over in Europe. We have different birds over here, something I noticed when I settled down over here in NS, years ago. It was like <em>paradise<\/em>: birds I didn&#8217;t recognized like the Bluejay (they&#8217;re pigs I hear), the Chickadee and particularly the Starling, the bird I mistook for the Blackbird (the one Dutch people call <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blackbird\">&#8216;merel&#8217;<\/a>). They&#8217;re not <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Starling\">even related<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><small>In image: Left to right, clockwise: starling, house sparrow, bluejay, chickadee and blackbird.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBonus link: Tuft&#8217;s, <a href=\"http:\/\/museum.gov.ns.ca\/mnh\/nature\/nsbirds\/bons.htm\">Birds of Nova Scotia, online<\/a><br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the killing of a house sparrow in The Netherlands (English speaking people go here), I was suprised to find out that in Holland, the common house sparrow had been put on the endangered species list. They are? Yes, these &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=824\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}