{"id":177,"date":"2013-01-17T20:04:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T01:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=177"},"modified":"2013-01-17T20:06:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T01:06:34","slug":"mangrove-black-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Mangrove Black-Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_178\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?attachment_id=178#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-178\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178\" class=\"size-large wp-image-178  \" title=\"Mangrove Black Hawk\" alt=\"A Mangrove Black Hawk enjoys the spray of the Pacific Ocean as waves break on the volcanic rocks at the shore near Corcovado.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/common-black-hawk-1024x723.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/common-black-hawk-1024x723.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/common-black-hawk-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/common-black-hawk.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Mangrove Black-Hawk enjoys the spray of Pacific waves breaking on volcanic rocks near Corcovado.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Before I started writing this post, I didn&#8217;t realize that there are two types of Black-Hawks in Costa Rica that look just like the bird in this picture: the Common Black-Hawk <em>(Buteogallus anthracinus)<\/em> and the Mangrove Black-Hawk <em>(Buteogallus subtilis)<\/em>. According to one of my bird books, Common Black-Hawks live along the Caribbean coast, while Mangrove Black-Hawks live along the Pacific, especially to the south. The two species may be conspecific, meaning they&#8217;re really the same bird. Perhaps time and a little science will tell. I commonly see these large raptors on the Osa Peninsula, where I snapped this photograph during a hike.<\/p>\n<pre>All media is copyright costaricawildlife.net, 2013.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I started writing this post, I didn&#8217;t realize that there are two types of Black-Hawks in Costa Rica that look just like the bird in this picture: the Common Black-Hawk (Buteogallus anthracinus) and the Mangrove Black-Hawk (Buteogallus subtilis). According to one of my bird books, Common Black-Hawks live along the Caribbean coast, while Mangrove &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=177\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,11,45,5,26,33,12],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birds","tag-black","tag-hawks","tag-osa-peninsula","tag-pacific","tag-raptors","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}