{"id":1635,"date":"2015-01-16T14:43:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T21:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2015-01-16T14:44:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T21:44:18","slug":"zone-tailed-hawk-sighting-in-mission-viejo-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=1635","title":{"rendered":"Zone-tailed Hawk sighting in Mission Viejo, CA on January 15, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, at 12:50pm, the Zone-tailed Hawk was seen flying over the Barano Trail at 12:50pm.<\/p>\n<p>Initially my observation was a dark raptor flying away and possibly a Turkey Vulture.\u00a0 As the bird circled back my binoculars confirmed the lack of a whitish bill and red head.\u00a0 The flight pattern was slightly different than that of a Turkey Vulture and a most distinct large white band on the tail confirmed this was a Zone-tailed Hawk.<\/p>\n<p>The raptor was flying solo and perhaps 1000-1200 feet above ground level.<\/p>\n<p>The report submitted to eBird can be found <a title=\"eBird report for January 15, 2015\" href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist?subID=S21357283\">here<\/a> for January 15, 2015<\/p>\n<p>An image of the Zone-tailed Hawk I took at the end of December 2014 in the same vicinity can be found below<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1537\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IM5D_020776-Zone-tailed-Hawk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1537\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IM5D_020776-Zone-tailed-Hawk-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Zone-tailed Hawk (20776) in Flight\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IM5D_020776-Zone-tailed-Hawk-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IM5D_020776-Zone-tailed-Hawk.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Zone-tailed Hawk (20776) in Flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, at 12:50pm, the Zone-tailed Hawk was seen flying over the Barano Trail at 12:50pm. Initially my observation was a dark raptor flying away and possibly a Turkey Vulture.\u00a0 As the bird circled back my binoculars confirmed the lack of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=1635\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawks-kites-eagles-allies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Rhss-qn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}