{"id":520212,"date":"2018-09-12T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a0c2a5cf369e1bfa04576fce81d2ab87"},"modified":"2018-09-12T09:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:00:01","slug":"mini-video-cameras-offer-peek-at-hard-to-observe-bird-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=520212","title":{"rendered":"Mini video cameras offer peek at hard-to-observe bird behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fledging behavior\u2014when and why baby birds leave the nest\u2014is something scientists know very little about. Rarely is someone watching a nest at just the right moment to see fledging happen. To get around this, the researchers behind a new study from The Auk: Ornithological Advances deployed miniature video cameras to monitor over 200 grassland bird nests in Alberta, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and they found that fledglings&#8217; decision-making process is more complex than anyone guessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fledging behavior&mdash;when and why baby birds leave the nest&mdash;is something scientists know very little about. Rarely is someone watching a nest at just the right moment to see fledging happen. To get around this, the researchers behind a new study from The Auk: Ornithological Advances deployed miniature video cameras to monitor over 200 grassland bird nests in Alberta, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and they found that fledglings&#8217; decision-making process is more complex than anyone guessed.<\/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-520212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520212","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=520212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520213,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520212\/revisions\/520213"}],"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=520212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}