{"id":6018,"date":"2017-03-28T18:03:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T01:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/28\/curve-billed-thrasher-5\/"},"modified":"2017-03-28T18:03:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T01:03:38","slug":"curve-billed-thrasher-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/28\/curve-billed-thrasher-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Curve Billed Thrasher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/curve-billed-thrasher.jpg' title='Curve Billed Thrasher'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/curve-billed-thrasher.jpg' alt='Curve Billed Thrasher' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was up on the hill behind the house looking at some of the vegetation up there when a Curve Billed Thrasher lit atop the bird block feeder. I had my camera and 300mm lens with me so I took several shots of the bird before it flew away. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Curve-billed_thrasher\">Wikipedia has this information on this interesting species<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The curve-billed thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) is a medium-sized mimid that is a member of the genus Toxostoma, native to the southwestern United States and much of Mexico. Referred to as the default desert bird, it is a non-migratory species. Several subspecies have been classified since 1827, though there is no consensus on the number. Allopatric speciation is believed to have played a major role in the variations of the curve-billed. It shares striking similarities in appearance with another Toxostoma member, Bendire&#8217;s thrasher. Nevertheless, it is recognized for its grey color and sickle-shaped bill. It generally resides in desert regions of the United States and Mexico, but can inhabit areas predominately populated by humans.<\/p>\n<p>The demeanor of the curve-billed has been described as &#8220;shy and rather wild&#8221;, but it allows humans to view it closely. It is very aggressive in driving out potential threats, whether competitors for food or predators of its chicks. The curve-billed thrasher sometimes mimics several other species, though not to the extent of other mimids. It has a variety of distinctive songs, and this extensive repertoire of melodies has led it to be known as cuitiacoache (songbird) in Mexico.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was up on the hill behind the house looking at some of the vegetation up there when a Curve Billed Thrasher lit atop the bird&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,12,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}