{"id":2849,"date":"2019-04-04T10:34:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T15:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2019-04-08T20:10:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T01:10:47","slug":"long-tailed-duck-april-3-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/long-tailed-duck-april-3-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-tailed Duck (deceased), April 3, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2107\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/long-tailed-duck.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2107\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/long-tailed-duck.jpg\" alt=\"Long-tailed Duck\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2107\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Long-tailed Duck (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What nature giveth, nature also taketh away. Seeing a dead bird is always sad. Seeing a dead bird as beautiful as a male Long-tailed Duck is poignant. This deceased Long-tailed Duck was on Montrose Beach on April 3. The bird was alive (but apparently not well) the day before but for unknown reasons didn&#8217;t survive. The specimen will go to the Field Museum where it will be available to scientists and others to study. Long-tailed Ducks are regular visitors to Lake Michigan during the colder months of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What nature giveth, nature also taketh away. Seeing a dead bird is always sad. Seeing a dead bird as beautiful as a male Long-tailed Duck is poignant. This deceased Long-tailed Duck was on Montrose Beach on April 3. The bird was alive (but apparently not well) the day before but for unknown reasons didn&#8217;t survive. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[33,116],"class_list":["post-2849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-bird-reports","tag-long-tailed-duck","tag-waterfowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}