The magnificent blue grosbeak, recorded by Roger Uzun at bit.ly\/2LGPdM0<\/a>, is found in San Diego County from mid-April to mid-August. It relies on native habitat such as riparian areas or grasslands and nests in low to medium growing shrubs. MTRP offers pristine breeding grounds for this thick-billed bird, which tends to poorly adapt to urbanization, according to the \u201cSan Diego County Bird Atlas\u201d by Philip Unitt.<\/p>\n As with most bird species, the male is the one wearing the attractive \u201cmake-up\u201d consisting of a vibrant blue plumage and orange wing bars. He will be the first to arrive on the summer premises and once joined by a female, they will proceed to raise up to two broods before departing south to their wintering homes.<\/p>\n You can check out the other bright blue\/orange birds spotted in April: The western bluebird (bit.ly\/2O0jv9a<\/a>); and the lazuli bunting (bit.ly\/2vn33rK<\/a>).<\/p>\n \u2014 Patricia Simpson es una gu\u00eda de senderos en el Parque Regional Mission Trails.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Patricia Simpson | Mission Trails Regional Park There are a few species of birds at Mission Trails Regional Park (MTRP) that sport a bright blue coat with orange accents: The common and year-round resident western bluebird (Sialia mexicana), the summer breeding lazuli bunting (Passerina amoena) and its cousin, the blue grosbeak (Passerina caerulea). These […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1074,"featured_media":230480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11558","_seopress_titles_title":"iNaturalist observation of the month: Blue grosbeak","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11558,11551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-mission-times-courier","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"iNaturalist](\"https:\/\/missiontimescourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/blue-grosbeak-by-roger-uzun.jpg\")
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