{"id":230,"date":"2010-09-28T02:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=230"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:05:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:05:44","slug":"cutwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Cutwater"},"content":{"rendered":"
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also Scissorbill, Shearwater and previously known along the Virginia coast as Storm Gull.<\/p>\n

I’d suggest the addition of Penguin Gull.<\/p>\n

; )<\/p>\n

Do you see the similarity?<\/i><\/p>\n

My 1917 edition of the Birds of America<\/a> is a joy for many reasons, but I particularly enjoy it for the local or historical names; so often these names are much more evocative of a bird’s spirit or some fundamental quality that we associate them with.<\/p>\n

Peterson sort of dryly describes their call as *barking* or alternately as “kaup, kaup.” To me it sounds like something between a bark and a quack. Members of a colony at rest on the beach will call anxiously to one another as people approach on foot and it sounds for all the world to me like a childhood game of “Marco Polo.”<\/p>\n

Listen for that next time!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

also Scissorbill, Shearwater and previously known along the Virginia coast as Storm Gull. I’d suggest the addition of Penguin Gull. ; ) Do you see the similarity? My 1917 edition of the Birds of America is a joy for many reasons, but I particularly enjoy it for the local or historical names; so often these … Continue reading Cutwater<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,23,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}