{"id":3429,"date":"2012-04-01T08:50:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T12:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2012-04-01T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T12:50:18","slug":"dead-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/dead-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"dead birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cm1225-L1429-cat-silhouette.jpg\" alt=\"cat silhouette\"><br \/>\nI have gotten little traction for my proposal to leash the King of suburbia, <em>felis catus<\/em>.<br \/>\nHad occasion to be reminded of cats&#8217; killing prowess when Gordon hauled in a <em>Cardinalis cardinalis<\/em>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cm1226-L1428-cat-and-cardinal.jpg\" alt=\"cat stays close to dying bird\"><br \/>\nGordo growled to be sure I didn&#8217;t mess with the bird while she tried to clear her lips of those pesky bird feathers.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cm1215_0017-dead-robins.jpg\" alt=\"what kind of bonehead motorist runs down birds at 25 mph?\"><br \/>\nMeanwhile, out on Market Street, two members of <em>Turdus migratorius<\/em> clan are road kill, extinguished by that other King of suburbia, the automobile.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhat kills birds? Consultants to the Wind Power Industry on birds and other wildlife issues, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.currykerlinger.com\/birds.htm\">Curry and Kerlinger LLC<\/a> put together some numbers which hold that glass windows are the largest bird slayer, 100-900 million birds per year. (love that range, factor of nine. Doesn&#8217;t inspire confidence).<br \/>\nHouse cats and motor vehicles each dispatch a 100 million.<br \/>\nI feel like a politician, &#8220;don&#8217;t believe the numbers&#8221;. From my experience, domestic cats rule in the realm of shredded tweet.  That 100 million dead for cats, way low.<br \/>\nLeash law for the kitties!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have gotten little traction for my proposal to leash the King of suburbia, felis catus. Had occasion to be reminded of cats&#8217; killing prowess when Gordon hauled in a Cardinalis cardinalis. Gordo growled to be sure I didn&#8217;t mess with the bird while she tried to clear her lips of those pesky bird feathers. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/dead-birds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;dead birds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15,17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damage","category-fauna","category-fishbones"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3435,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions\/3435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}