{"id":535,"date":"2006-05-08T22:56:54","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T05:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/05\/08\/phainopepla-male\/"},"modified":"2006-05-09T12:16:17","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T19:16:17","slug":"phainopepla-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/05\/08\/phainopepla-male\/","title":{"rendered":"Phainopepla, Male"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Male <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/AllAboutBirds\/BirdGuide\/Phainopepla_dtl.html\">Phainopeplas (Phainopepla nitens)<\/a> have glossy black feathers, spiky feathered crests, and ruby-red eyes, which make these attractive, unique-looking desert birds quite easy to identify.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/May\/phainopepla.jpg\" alt=\"Male Phainopepla (Phainopepla nitens)\" title=\"Male Phainopepla (Phainopepla nitens)\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/05\/04\/phainopepla\/\">females<\/a> look similar to the males, but are a charcoal gray color. Phainopeplas can be easily located by sound just by listening for their distinctive &#8220;Wurrip?&#8221; calls.<\/p>\n<p>This male was apparently keeping a lookout while the female and several grayish juveniles hopped about in a mesquite tree heavily laden with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/2115\/phoradendron-californicum-mesquite-mistletoe\/\">Mesquite Mistletoe (Phoradendron californicum)<\/a>. Mistletoe berries are their main food source, however Phainopeplas can also be seen capturing flying insects, which is not a surprise given that these versatile birds are in the Silky-flycatcher Family (Ptilogonatidae).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Male Phainopeplas (Phainopepla nitens) have glossy black feathers, spiky feathered crests, and ruby-red eyes, which make these attractive, unique-looking desert birds quite easy to identify. The females look similar to the males, but are a charcoal gray color. Phainopeplas can be easily located by sound just by listening for their distinctive &#8220;Wurrip?&#8221; calls. This male&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/05\/08\/phainopepla-male\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}