{"id":1139,"date":"2019-11-30T23:58:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T03:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2019-11-30T23:58:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T03:58:35","slug":"winter-survival-of-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/2019\/11\/30\/winter-survival-of-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Survival of Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter weather has arrived in Maine. Subfreezing temperatures make walking from the house to the car or mailbox an ordeal for many folks. Have you&nbsp; ever wondered how birds can make it through a challenging Maine winter with cold temperatures and short days in which to search for food?<\/p>\n<p>I gave a short talk on this topic for the Waterville Pecha Kucha chapter. Pecha kucha is a type of oral and visual presentation where a speaker presents 20 Powerpoint slides, each automatically displaying for only 20 seconds. It takes a bit of practice to get a pecha kucha talk smooth but the format is a highly&nbsp; efficient way of transmitting information.&nbsp; You can do the math to see that a pecha kucha talk requires six minutes&nbsp; and 40 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>If you would&nbsp; like to hear my&nbsp; talk, here is the URL:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CaYZkGA0Et8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CaYZkGA0Et8<\/a><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1139\" data-postid=\"1139\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1139 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter weather has arrived in Maine. Subfreezing temperatures make walking from the house to the car or mailbox an ordeal for many folks. Have you&nbsp; ever wondered how birds can make it through a challenging Maine winter with cold temperatures and short days in which to search for food? I gave a short talk on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[430],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}