{"id":3186,"date":"2014-10-07T23:52:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T04:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2014-10-07T23:52:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T04:52:28","slug":"project-feederwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/project-feederwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Project FeederWatch<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3187\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/unnamed-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3187\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3187\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/unnamed-1.jpg\" alt=\"y tracking birds like this hairy woodpecker through the winter, birdwatchers can help scientists identify shifts and trends in North American bird biodiversity. (Photo credit: Ric Hornsby)\" width=\"400\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/unnamed-1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/unnamed-1-300x130.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">y tracking birds like this hairy woodpecker through the winter, birdwatchers can help scientists identify shifts and trends in North American bird biodiversity. (Photo credit: Ric Hornsby)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This citizen science project is a joint program of Bird Studies Canada and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. For a $35 fee, participants receive a handbook and other materials that help them identify bird species. They enter this data into a central website, thereby helping scientists track changes in bird numbers and movements across North America.<\/p>\n<p>Last winter, participants in many cities across Canada reported fewer birds and less variety than in previous seasons, likely due to frigid temperatures, harsh winds, and record snowfall.<\/p>\n<h4>This year\u2019s Project FeederWatch season runs from <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1223925518\"><span class=\"aQJ\">November 8, 2014 to April 3, 2015<\/span><\/span>. For more information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdscanada.org\/volunteer\/pfw\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">click here<\/span><\/a>.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This citizen science project is a joint program of Bird Studies Canada and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. For a $35 fee, participants receive a handbook and other materials that help them identify bird species. They enter this data into a central website, thereby helping scientists track changes in bird numbers and movements across North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[170,114],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-biodiversity","tag-birds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/unnamed-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Po","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3193,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions\/3193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}