{"id":7000,"date":"2024-08-28T11:44:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=7000"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:45:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T15:45:20","slug":"say-hello-again-to-the-american-woodcock-28aug2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=7000","title":{"rendered":"Say hello again to the American Woodcock! 28Aug2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6994\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2.-JBDAmerican_WoodcockDartmouth-IMG_1307.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6994\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6994\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2.-JBDAmerican_WoodcockDartmouth-IMG_1307-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2.-JBDAmerican_WoodcockDartmouth-IMG_1307-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2.-JBDAmerican_WoodcockDartmouth-IMG_1307-1024x787.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2.-JBDAmerican_WoodcockDartmouth-IMG_1307-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2.-JBDAmerican_WoodcockDartmouth-IMG_1307-1536x1181.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2.-JBDAmerican_WoodcockDartmouth-IMG_1307.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A<strong>merican Woodcock, Lake Banook area Dartmouth<\/strong>, Photo by Josha Barss Donham 2015-04-08<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Say hello again to the American Woodcock! This unusual shorebird is one of 4 ground nesting birds species that we\u2019re featuring this season.<\/p>\n<p>The American Woodcock lives in wooded or shrubby areas where the ground is damp, and is quite distinctive: a plump chest and belly, very short legs, big dark eyes placed unusually far back on the head, and a very long beak. They are a stocky bird, about the same length as a robin but more than twice as heavy! And the females are even larger than the males.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?page_id=6346\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say hello again to the American Woodcock! This unusual shorebird is one of 4 ground nesting birds species that we\u2019re featuring this season. The American Woodcock lives in wooded or shrubby areas where the ground is damp, and is quite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=7000\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7002,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7000\/revisions\/7002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}