{"id":571,"date":"2014-03-02T03:30:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T03:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/?p=571"},"modified":"2014-03-02T03:30:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T03:30:27","slug":"species-day-white-tipped-sicklebill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/2014\/03\/02\/species-day-white-tipped-sicklebill\/","title":{"rendered":"Species of the Day: White-tipped sicklebill!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Species of the day: White-tipped sickle bill! This is one of my favorite species. It is quite specialized (its &#8220;sickle&#8221; bill allows it to get into very curved flowers). As a result, it needs to move a long way to find the food that it needs. One of our largest hummingbirds (~11 g), it is a bit like watching a fighter jet mixed with a muppet move through the jungle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/files\/2014\/03\/Sickle-bill-good_low.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-570\" alt=\"Sickle-bill good_low\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/files\/2014\/03\/Sickle-bill-good_low-1024x887.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1494\/files\/2014\/03\/Sickle-bill-good_low-1024x887.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1494\/files\/2014\/03\/Sickle-bill-good_low-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1494\/files\/2014\/03\/Sickle-bill-good_low-346x300.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Species of the day: White-tipped sickle bill! This is one of my favorite species. It is quite specialized (its &#8220;sickle&#8221; bill allows it to get into very curved flowers). As a result, it needs to move a long way to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/2014\/03\/02\/species-day-white-tipped-sicklebill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}