{"id":1928,"date":"2014-08-01T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2014-08-01T11:10:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T03:10:42","slug":"our-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"Our Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the welcome rains filling the lake again, our ducks have returned. Ten species have been seen over the years and we will\u00a0feature some of them in the coming months.<br \/>\n[column col=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-717\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Birds-of-Lake-Claremont-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Australian Shoveler (Anas Rhynchotis)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Birds-of-Lake-Claremont-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Birds-of-Lake-Claremont.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The very handsome Australian Shoveler is endemic to Australia and New Zealand. As it is said to prefer permanent water bodies, we are very fortunate to be able to enjoy seeing them every winter and spring. They feed on microorganisms,<br \/>\nfiltering them from water or soft mud with their specially shaped bills.<br \/>\nThe female is on the left, male on the right.<br \/>\n[\/column]<br \/>\n[column col=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1925\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Duck-Pink-eared_0298c-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Pink-Eared Duck (Malacorynchus membranaceous)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Duck-Pink-eared_0298c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Duck-Pink-eared_0298c-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Pink-eared Duck is endemic to Australia and is widespread where suitable water bodies are present. Like the Australian Shoveler, it feeds by filtering water and soft mud with its specially shaped bill<br \/>\nLast spring they used some of our newly installed nesting boxes for breeding. The typical clutch size is seven but, as with other ducks, there is a heavy loss to predation.<br \/>\nMales and females are alike.<br \/>\n[\/column]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nFor more of our birds please head over to our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a title=\"Birds of Lake Claremont\" href=\"http:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/?page_id=189\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Birds of Lake Claremont<\/span><\/a><\/span> page which if full of great content<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the welcome rains filling the lake again, our ducks have returned. Ten species have been seen over the years and we will\u00a0feature some of them in the coming months. [column col=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;] The very handsome Australian Shoveler is endemic to Australia and New Zealand. As it is said to prefer permanent water bodies, we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}