{"id":647,"date":"2013-10-08T14:48:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T14:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=647"},"modified":"2016-10-14T15:16:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T15:16:06","slug":"did-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/did-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blue-jay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-648\" alt=\"blue jay\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blue-jay.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"482\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[PHOTO CREDIT: ISABELLE MAROZZO &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/en\/do-something\/contests-winners\/annual-contest\/?src=hpbox\">CWF PHOTO CONTEST<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that blue jays are not really blue?<\/p>\n<p>Their blue colouration does not come from pigments but rather by the structure of the feather.<\/p>\n<p>If you find a blue jay&#8217;s feather, try this neat little experiment! If you hold the feather in your hand you will see that it looks blue. But if you hold the feather up to a bright light, it will look brown\/grey. This is because the light is being transmitted through the feather; it is not being reflected back.\u00a0 The brown\/grey colouration comes from the melanin in the feathers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/AllAboutBirds\/studying\/feathers\/color\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">[PHOTO CREDIT: ISABELLE MAROZZO &#8211; CWF PHOTO CONTEST] Did you know that blue jays are not really blue? Their blue colouration does not come from pigments but rather by the&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":[257,735,591],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-wildlife","tag-birds","tag-blue-jay","tag-wild-about-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","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=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}