{"id":130411,"date":"2017-10-26T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=130411"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:18:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:18:37","slug":"flocking-storrs-birders-tour-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/10\/flocking-storrs-birders-tour-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Flocking to Storrs: A Birder\u2019s Tour of Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hardcore birders like to get out into the world early, which is how the UConn Magazine\u2019s art director and I found ourselves meeting associate professor Margaret Rubega for the first of a series of campus bird walks at precisely 6 a.m. at a Storrs Center caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>All three of us clutching extra-large coffees, we stepped into the parking lot at 6:06 just as a magnificent red-tailed hawk swooped over street and sidewalk some 10 yards across the parking lot and at eye level\u00a0\u2013 as if on cue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s amazing,\u201d I said. To which Rubega replied, \u201cNo it\u2019s not. Birds are everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"page\" class=\"site\"><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2017\/09\/26\/flocking-to-storrs\/\">Read more of the UConn Magazine story.<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From UCONN MAGAZINE: Ornithology professor Margaret Rubega said &#8216;birds are everywhere.&#8217; Then she proved it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":130449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,2387,2225,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2027],"class_list":["post-130411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clas","category-sustainability","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-life"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 06:04:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130411"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133651,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130411\/revisions\/133651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/130449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130411"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=130411"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=130411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}