{"id":271,"date":"2007-05-06T23:47:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T03:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2007\/05\/06\/white-throated-sparrow\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T19:22:19","slug":"white-throated-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2007\/05\/06\/white-throated-sparrow\/","title":{"rendered":"White-throated Sparrow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the usual Somerville and Cambridge birds I&#8217;ve been hearing an occasional song which sounds like a white-throated sparrow&#8217;s &#8220;Poor Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody&#8221;.  However, it&#8217;s been coming across as thin and reedy compared with the recordings I have, and lacking syllables in Peabody, such that it sounds like &#8220;Poor Sam Peee Peee Peee&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t really think that it was likely a white-throated sparrow, since I hadn&#8217;t read of them being city birds at all.  But today, I saw a sparrow in the back yard which definitely wasn&#8217;t a house sparrow.  It had three white stripes on its head, and a distinctly white throat.  It was bigger than a house sparrow.  I didn&#8217;t see the yellow eyebrows that white-throated sparrows should have, but maybe I just wasn&#8217;t looking closely enough&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the usual Somerville and Cambridge birds I&#8217;ve been hearing an occasional song which sounds like a white-throated sparrow&#8217;s &#8220;Poor Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody&#8221;. However, it&#8217;s been coming across as thin and reedy compared with the recordings I have, and lacking syllables in Peabody, such that it sounds like &#8220;Poor Sam Peee Peee Peee&#8221;. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}