{"id":5372,"date":"2023-03-31T06:51:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T11:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=5372"},"modified":"2023-03-31T06:51:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T11:51:14","slug":"greater-white-fronted-goose-march-26-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/greater-white-fronted-goose-march-26-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater White-fronted Goose, March 26, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2414\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/greater-white-fronted-goose.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2414\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/greater-white-fronted-goose.jpg\" alt=\"Greater White-fronted Goose\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2414\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greater White-fronted Goose (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>March is the month for waterfowl and one of the more uncommon waterfowl species at Montrose is Greater White-fronted Goose. We usually see them in early March or even late February if the weather is right. Sometimes large movements involving hundreds of birds occur, but a few dozen is more typical. For some reason, we saw only one White-fronted at Montrose in spring 2023, a flyover immature on March 26. This is a bit late but also a helpful reminder that birds don&#8217;t always behave like we expect them to. One interesting tidbit about White-fronted Geese is that hunters refer to them as specklebellies, an allusion to the prominent dark spotting and barring on the underparts of the adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March is the month for waterfowl and one of the more uncommon waterfowl species at Montrose is Greater White-fronted Goose. We usually see them in early March or even late February if the weather is right. Sometimes large movements involving hundreds of birds occur, but a few dozen is more typical. For some reason, we [&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":[187,116],"class_list":["post-5372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-bird-reports","tag-greater-white-fronted-goose","tag-waterfowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372","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=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5373,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions\/5373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}