{"id":1207,"date":"2012-06-07T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2016-11-03T20:04:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T20:04:54","slug":"what-a-birds-colouration-can-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/what-a-birds-colouration-can-tell-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Bird&#8217;s Colouration Can Tell You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gouldian Finches\" src=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/assets\/images\/conservation\/blog\/birds-resized.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.environment.gov.au\/biodiversity\/threatened\/publications\/pubs\/e-gouldiae.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Image Credit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A UK team led by researchers from Liverpool John Moores University studied Gouldian finches, highly sociable Australian birds. In their newly published <a href=\"http:\/\/planetearth.nerc.ac.uk\/news\/story.aspx?id=1242&amp;cookieConsent=A\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, they show that\u00a0the head\u00a0colour of a Gouldian finch can determine the bird&#8217;s personality.<\/p>\n<p>They measured three aspects of personality &#8211; aggression, boldness and risk-taking.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found Gouldian finches with red heads tend to be more aggressive while those with black heads tend to be bolder and are more risk takers.<\/p>\n<p>With head colour reflecting personality traits, researchers believe that birds can quickly choose which birds they should avoid and which birds they should associate with when in large flocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Image Credit A UK team led by researchers from Liverpool John Moores University studied Gouldian finches, highly sociable Australian birds. In their newly published study, they show that\u00a0the head\u00a0colour of&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[633],"tags":[257,487],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-wildlife","tag-birds","tag-gouldian-finches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}