{"id":5545,"date":"2023-11-26T08:10:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T14:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=5545"},"modified":"2023-11-26T08:26:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T14:26:59","slug":"black-legged-kittiwake-november-24-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/black-legged-kittiwake-november-24-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-legged Kittiwake, November 24, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2472\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/black-legged-kittiwake.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2472\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/black-legged-kittiwake.jpg\" alt=\"Black-legged Kittiwake\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2472\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-legged Kittiwake flying by Montrose Point (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Black-legged Kittiwakes are rare but regular visitors to Lake Michigan, mainly in November. On November 24, a crisply marked juvenile flew north over Lake Michigan past Montrose Point. This is the second Black-legged Kittiwake seen at Montrose this fall, the first occurring on November 4.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re at Montrose, or any other place along the Chicago lakefront this November and December, pay attention to the gulls that are flying by. Most will be Herring and Ring-billed, but you may get lucky and see a Black-legged Kittiwake. Almost all of the kittiwakes we see are juveniles, and juveniles have a distinctive appearance, like someone took a black magic marker and drew a neat &#8220;M&#8221; pattern on their wings. Try a Google image search for &#8220;juvenile Black-legged Kittiwake&#8221; to see examples of this plumage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black-legged Kittiwakes are rare but regular visitors to Lake Michigan, mainly in November. On November 24, a crisply marked juvenile flew north over Lake Michigan past Montrose Point. This is the second Black-legged Kittiwake seen at Montrose this fall, the first occurring on November 4. If you&#8217;re at Montrose, or any other place along 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":[27],"tags":[172,105],"class_list":["post-5545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-bird-reports","tag-black-legged-kittiwake","tag-gulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545","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=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5547,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions\/5547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}