{"id":9380,"date":"2021-04-07T20:29:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T20:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=9380"},"modified":"2021-04-16T15:33:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T15:33:23","slug":"what-can-inaturalist-tell-us-about-barn-swallows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/what-can-inaturalist-tell-us-about-barn-swallows\/","title":{"rendered":"What can iNaturalist Tell us About Barn Swallows?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Have you had the opportunity to spot one of these flighty little birds?<\/h2>\n<p>If so, you&#8217;ll likely remember seeing their dark blue silhouettes flashing about as they swooped and soared over a field or open water body. They might occasionally display their distinctive long tail streamers as they eat (and drink) on the wing. Or perhaps you saw them at their nest, a curious little construction either in a barn or stuck to the side of a building that the parents painstakingly created one mud ball at a time. What you may not realize is that this is a migratory bird whose range spans every continent except Antarctica.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9382\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9382\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Perching-Barn-Swallow.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Perching-Barn-Swallow.png 624w, https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Perching-Barn-Swallow-530x398.png 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perching Barn Swallow in Etobicoke, Ontario (Photo by iNaturalist user bkinder832) May 31, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hww.ca\/en\/wildlife\/birds\/barn-swallow.html?src=blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barn Swallow<\/a> is also a species at risk in Canada.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/inaturalist.ca\/blog\/49586-what-can-inaturalist-tell-us-about-barn-swallows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more on the iNaturalist.ca\/blog\u00a0 &gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Have you had the opportunity to spot one of these flighty little birds? If so, you&#8217;ll likely remember seeing their dark blue silhouettes flashing about as they swooped and soared&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":6014,"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":[6,638],"tags":[8881,598,591],"class_list":["post-9380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-endangered-species","category-fields-forests","tag-barn-swallow","tag-inaturalist","tag-wild-about-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380","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\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9380"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9441,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions\/9441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}