{"id":2852,"date":"2016-12-07T21:07:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T13:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/?page_id=2852"},"modified":"2017-03-05T21:28:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T13:28:54","slug":"grey-teal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/?page_id=2852","title":{"rendered":"Grey Teal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2860\" src=\"http:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Grey-Teal-1024x830.jpg\" alt=\"grey-teal\" width=\"980\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Grey-Teal-1024x830.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Grey-Teal-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Grey-Teal-768x622.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>Grey Teal<\/h4>\n<h6><em>Anas gracilis<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>Length 42-45 cm.<br \/>\nOne of the most common ducks at our lake, these birds can be seen in large numbers when there is sufficient water. Grey Teal are highly nomadic and will fly long distances to reach suitable feeding grounds. They prefer nesting in tree hollows, and use the mature tuarts to the west of our lake, where they can sometimes be seen perched high in a tree. The female does most of the work of incubating the eggs and brooding the ducklings.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 15px;\">[soundy button]<\/div>\n<p>Click on the play icon to hear the Grey Teal&#8217;s call<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2852 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/?attachment_id=2854'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Teal-Grey_3651ct-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/?attachment_id=2855'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Teal-Grey_5365ct-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/?attachment_id=2856'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Teal-Grey_8567ct-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Teal-Grey_8567ct-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Teal-Grey_8567ct-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Teal-Grey_8567ct-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Teal-Grey_8567ct-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 75%;\">Drawings kindly provided by Pam and photography by David Free and other artists where noted. The audio clips provided by David Secomb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grey Teal Anas gracilis Length 42-45 cm. One of the most common ducks at our lake, these birds can be seen in large numbers when there is sufficient water. Grey Teal are highly nomadic and will fly long distances to reach suitable feeding grounds. They prefer nesting in tree hollows, and use the mature tuarts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":189,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2852","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3488,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2852\/revisions\/3488"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}