{"id":77,"date":"2005-05-04T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2005\/05\/04\/phainopepla\/"},"modified":"2006-07-09T20:21:19","modified_gmt":"2006-07-10T03:21:19","slug":"phainopepla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/05\/04\/phainopepla\/","title":{"rendered":"Phainopepla, Female"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/information\/Phainopepla_nitens.html\">Phainopeplas (Phainopepla nitens)<\/a> are common birds here in Tucson, but they are mostly found in areas with some natural, desert vegetation. <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/05\/08\/phainopepla-male\/\">Males Phainopeplas<\/a> are a shiny black, while the females, such as the one pictured below, are a dark, charcoal gray.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/May\/Phainopepla.jpg\" alt=\"Female Phainopepla (Phainopepla nitens)\" title=\"Female Phainopepla (Phainopepla nitens)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The berries of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/2115\/phoradendron-californicum-mesquite-mistletoe\/\">Mesquite Mistletoe (Phoradendron californicum)<\/a> are one of the most important food sources for these desert birds. Mesquite Mistletoe mainly parasitizes mesquite and paloverde trees, and it depends on Phainopeplas to help &#8220;plant&#8221; its seeds. Phainopeplas have sticky droppings full of mistletoe seeds, and if one of these droppings lands on a branch of the right kind of tree, the mistletoe seeds will sprout and then tap into the tree&#8217;s nutrients and moisture.<\/p>\n<p>Phainopeplas have <a href=\"http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/resources\/naturesongs\/phain2.wav\/view.html\">distinctive vocalizations<\/a>, and they can be easily located by sound because of their habit of calling from exposed perches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phainopeplas (Phainopepla nitens) are common birds here in Tucson, but they are mostly found in areas with some natural, desert vegetation. Males Phainopeplas are a shiny black, while the females, such as the one pictured below, are a dark, charcoal gray. The berries of Mesquite Mistletoe (Phoradendron californicum) are one of the most important food&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/05\/04\/phainopepla\/\" 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-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}