{"id":514905,"date":"2018-08-29T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=088ac881c2536efeed1a9374921395d5"},"modified":"2018-08-29T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T13:00:03","slug":"how-does-agriculture-affect-vulnerable-insect-eating-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=514905","title":{"rendered":"How does agriculture affect vulnerable insect-eating birds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aerial insectivores\u2014birds that hunt for insect prey on the wing\u2014are declining across North America as agricultural intensification leads to diminishing insect abundance and diversity in many areas. A new study from The Condor: Ornithological Applications looks at how Tree Swallows&#8217; diets are affected by agriculture and finds that while birds living in cropland can still find their preferred prey, they may be working harder to get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aerial insectivores&mdash;birds that hunt for insect prey on the wing&mdash;are declining across North America as agricultural intensification leads to diminishing insect abundance and diversity in many areas. A new study from The Condor: Ornithological Applications looks at how Tree Swallows&#8217; diets are affected by agriculture and finds that while birds living in cropland can still find their preferred prey, they may be working harder to get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514906,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514905\/revisions\/514906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}