{"id":39513,"date":"2025-09-25T16:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=39513"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:20:11","slug":"john-quinn-comments-on-migratory-bird-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/john-quinn-comments-on-migratory-bird-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"John Quinn comments on migratory bird patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the seasons change, so do the migratory activities of birds. And the Upstate region is a major throughway for hundreds of millions of birds on any given night during late summer and early fall according to national trackers. Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/john-quinn\">John Quinn<\/a>, the Henry Keith and Ellen Hard Townes Professor of Biology and director of Environmental Studies, speaks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/upstate-hotbed-for-travel-during-peak-bird-migration-season\/68025705\">WYFF News 4&#8217;s<\/a> Rashad Williams about why and when birds migrate and how we humans can help keep them safe on their journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ornithologist John Quinn speaks to WYFF News 4 about bird migration and how we can keep our feathered friends safe during the long-distance flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":39517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,37,6,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-earth-environmental-and-sustainability-sciences","category-in-the-news","category-wyff-tv"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39518,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39513\/revisions\/39518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}