{"id":2897,"date":"2016-12-12T08:12:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T00:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/?page_id=2897"},"modified":"2017-03-05T21:24:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T13:24:23","slug":"pacific-black-duck","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/?page_id=2897","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Black Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2903\" src=\"http:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pacific-Black-Duck-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"pacific-black-duck\" width=\"980\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pacific-Black-Duck-1024x668.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pacific-Black-Duck-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pacific-Black-Duck-768x501.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Pacific Black Duck<\/h4>\n<h6><em> Anas superciliosa <\/em><\/h6>\n<p>Length: 48-60 cm<br \/>\nThis is our commonest duck; they can be seen in large numbers when there is sufficient water in the lake. Black Ducks breed around the lake, and the adult females can be seen escorting newly hatched ducklings to the water from often distant nest sites. Some even make the hazardous journey from south of Stirling Highway! The normal clutch size is 10-12 but very high predation rates result in few of the vulnerable ducklings surviving to adulthood<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 15px;\">[soundy button]<\/div>\n<p>Click on the play icon to hear the Duck&#8217;s call<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2897 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=2902'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Duck-Pacific-PC020022ct-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=2901'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Duck-Pacific_6443ct-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=2900'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Duck-Pacific_5992ct-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=2899'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Duck-Pacific-BlackPC020018cbt-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/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>Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa Length: 48-60 cm This is our commonest duck; they can be seen in large numbers when there is sufficient water in the lake. Black Ducks breed around the lake, and the adult females can be seen escorting newly hatched ducklings to the water from often distant nest sites. Some even [&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-2897","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2897","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=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2897\/revisions\/3487"}],"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=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}