{"id":20370,"date":"2023-01-15T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=20370"},"modified":"2023-01-15T14:32:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T19:32:40","slug":"significant-explanatory-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/20370","title":{"rendered":"Significant explanatory power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to understand why Clovis took off a week ago. This morning I found a dropped primary under her perch:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"First dropped primary.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/doncoyote\/52628502297\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52628502297_1c1b5dc441_z.jpg\" alt=\"First dropped primary.\" width=\"559\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Things just got clearer! I don&#8217;t fly during the moult for a couple of reasons. First, managing the bird&#8217;s weight is tricky. If you go too low while the falcon is making new feathers, you risk fretmarks &#8211; lines of weakness on the feather that mark moments of stress, especially nutritional stress. Second, and germane to the question at hand, moulting is part of a bunch of hormonal changes kicked off by longer days. One of the other effects is readiness for bonding\/mating\/nesting. My current best guess is that Clovis took off because it&#8217;s time to fly around, establish a territory and find a mate. It hasn&#8217;t been any kind of season anyway, so packing up the telemetry and the vest is NBD but still, dang, I was hoping for some more flights!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to understand why Clovis took off a week ago. This morning I found a dropped primary under her perch: Things just got clearer! I don&#8217;t fly during the moult for a couple of reasons. First, managing the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/20370\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clovis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-5iy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20371,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370\/revisions\/20371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}