{"id":2943,"date":"2016-12-18T20:48:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T12:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/?page_id=2943"},"modified":"2017-03-17T11:32:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T03:32:59","slug":"white-faced-heron","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/?page_id=2943","title":{"rendered":"White-faced Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2946\" src=\"http:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/White-Faced-Heron-723x1024.jpg\" alt=\"white-faced-heron\" width=\"723\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/White-Faced-Heron-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/White-Faced-Heron-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/White-Faced-Heron-768x1088.jpg 768w, https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/White-Faced-Heron.jpg 1509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>White-faced Heron<\/h4>\n<h6><em>Egretta novaehollandiae<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>Length: 66-69 cm.<br \/>\nThis elegant, long-legged bird is often seen foraging around the lake. It walks slowly and waits motionlessly for long periods before striking at it&#8217;s prey; a wide range of vertebrates and invertebrates. It has been seen attempting to swallow a small turtle.<br \/>\nThey nest in tall trees; look for a shallow, untidy collection of sticks.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 15px;\">[soundy button]<\/div>\n<p>Click on the play icon to hear the Heron&#8217;s call<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2943 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=2947'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Heron-White-faced-2cbt-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=2948'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Heron-White-faced-P1040360ct-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=2949'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Heron-White-faced_1973ct-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>White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae Length: 66-69 cm. This elegant, long-legged bird is often seen foraging around the lake. It walks slowly and waits motionlessly for long periods before striking at it&#8217;s prey; a wide range of vertebrates and invertebrates. It has been seen attempting to swallow a small turtle. They nest in tall trees; look [&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-2943","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2943","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=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2943\/revisions\/3547"}],"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=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}