{"id":4090,"date":"2013-08-09T14:12:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T06:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2013-08-11T14:31:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T06:31:12","slug":"clapping-pigeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/09\/clapping-pigeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Clapping Pigeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1276.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4069\" alt=\"clapping pigeon\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1276-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1276-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1276.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I heard a bronzewing pigeon clapping for the first time. Apparently lots of pigeons clap their wings, but I have never heard it before &#8211; or at least known what I was hearing. \u00a0They do it to confuse and startle any predators that get too close as they make a quick exit. Shorty obviously got too close to a pigeon on the ground as we went to feed the guinea fowl and it flapped and clapped away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a bronzewing pigeon clapping for the first time. Apparently lots of pigeons clap their wings, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,20,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-photography","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1276.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4133,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions\/4133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}