{"id":65,"date":"2019-11-21T07:29:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T12:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/?p=65"},"modified":"2019-11-21T07:29:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T12:29:49","slug":"compare-and-contrast-sparrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/11\/21\/compare-and-contrast-sparrows\/","title":{"rendered":"Compare and Contrast Sparrows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> My previous post featured a Field Sparrow, so I thought it would be a  good comparison to now feature a bird that is easily confused with the Field Sparrow; namely the American Tree Sparrow.  There are a few key  distinctions, two of which can been seen in my photograph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The American Tree Sparrow has a bi-colored bill, typically black\/yellow.  The Field Sparrow has a pink bill.<\/li><li>The darker eye-ring on the American Tree Sparrow is bisected by the rusty brown eye-line.  The eye-ring on the Field Sparrow is unbroken and bright.<\/li><li>If the chest is visible, the American Tree Sparrow has a black spot right in the center of it.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"926\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP8819-2019-11-19-Bath-Nature-Preserve-926x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP8819-2019-11-19-Bath-Nature-Preserve-926x1024.jpg 926w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP8819-2019-11-19-Bath-Nature-Preserve-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP8819-2019-11-19-Bath-Nature-Preserve-768x850.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP8819-2019-11-19-Bath-Nature-Preserve.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 926px) 100vw, 926px\" \/><figcaption>American Tree Sparrow \/ Bath Nature Preserve \/ 2019-11-19<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My previous post featured a Field Sparrow, so I thought it would be a good comparison to now feature a bird that is easily confused with the Field Sparrow; namely the American Tree Sparrow. There are a few key distinctions, two of which can been seen in my photograph. The American Tree Sparrow has a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/11\/21\/compare-and-contrast-sparrows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Compare and Contrast Sparrows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13,3],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-american-tree-sparrow","tag-bath-nature-preserve","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}