{"id":23740,"date":"2024-06-16T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T21:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23740"},"modified":"2024-07-04T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T19:44:04","slug":"coragyps-atratus-black-vulture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23740","title":{"rendered":"<em>Coragyps atratus<\/em> (Black Vulture)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23742\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_20240616_016800.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23742\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_20240616_016800-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Coragyps atratus (Black Vulture)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_20240616_016800-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_20240616_016800-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_20240616_016800-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_20240616_016800-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_20240616_016800.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Coragyps atratus<\/em> (Black Vulture)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We went to the C&#038;O Canal today, walking about a mile and a half upstream from Seneca Creek and Riley&#8217;s Lock. We saw a few great blue herons (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>) and one green heron (<em>Butorides virescens<\/em>), as well as a few smaller birds. But my favorite for this walk was this black vulture (<em>Coragyps atratus<\/em>) who landed on a tree quite close to us. Like most birds but unlike the turkey vulture (<em>Cathartes aura<\/em>) the black vulture does not hunt by smell but is often seen in the company of turkey vultures, which have this advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the C&#038;O Canal today, walking about a mile and a half upstream from Seneca Creek and Riley&#8217;s Lock. We saw a few great blue herons (Ardea herodias) and one green heron (Butorides virescens), as well as a few smaller birds. But my favorite for this walk was this black vulture (Coragyps atratus) &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23740\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2767,2768,2769,1616],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23744,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23740\/revisions\/23744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}