{"id":5468,"date":"2023-06-04T15:12:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T20:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=5468"},"modified":"2023-06-11T06:49:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T11:49:57","slug":"gull-billed-tern-june-1-2023-second-illinois-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/gull-billed-tern-june-1-2023-second-illinois-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Gull-billed Tern, June 1, 2023 &#8211; Second Illinois Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2454\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/gull-billed-tern.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2454\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/gull-billed-tern.jpg\" alt=\"Gull-billed Tern\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2454\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gull-billed Tern. Photo courtesy of Woody Goss (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Woody Goss found a <strong>Gull-billed Tern<\/strong> on the protected beach late in the day on June 1. This is just the second record for Illinois and a first site record for Montrose. The bird flew off to the south after 30 minutes and has not been seen since. Gull-billed Terns are normally found on the Gulf and East coasts of the United States. They usually don&#8217;t stray far from the coast, though there are a number of extralimital records for the eastern United States. This amazing record is a reminder to keep checking the beach for unusual gulls, terns, and shorebirds.<\/p>\n<p>To see the updated list of birds recorded at Montrose, refer to the <a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/the-montrose-list\/\">Montrose List<\/a> page on this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woody Goss found a Gull-billed Tern on the protected beach late in the day on June 1. This is just the second record for Illinois and a first site record for Montrose. The bird flew off to the south after 30 minutes and has not been seen since. Gull-billed Terns are normally found on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-5468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rare-birds","category-summer-bird-reports","tag-terns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468","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=5468"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5479,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468\/revisions\/5479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}