{"id":2788,"date":"2022-05-12T07:55:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2022-05-12T07:55:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:55:25","slug":"pelicans-on-the-red-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2022\/05\/12\/pelicans-on-the-red-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans on the Red River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" onmousedown=\"alert('Sorry ... you will need to contact me if you wish to use this photo')\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/photosbydennis\/image\/172595255\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to Pelicans I have no idea how to determine if it\u2019s a male or female\u2026they all look the same.<br \/>\nYears ago I thought that perhaps one sex or the other had the yellow\/orange flap on the top of its beak\u2026over the years have come to learn that both the female and male have this bump that simply makes them more attractive to a prospective mate and will fall off after breeding season.<br \/>\nWhen the high water levels in the river drop they will again move in towards the locks at Lockport and collect in great numbers.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a great place to see them up-close and personal.<br \/>\nThe trip wouldn\u2019t be complete without a stop at Skinners or The Half-Moon for some good eats\u2026just sayin !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to Pelicans I have no idea how to determine if it\u2019s a male or female\u2026they all look the same. Years ago I thought that perhaps one sex or the other had the yellow\/orange flap on the top of its beak\u2026over the years have come to learn that both the female and male [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-birds","tag-american-white-pelican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2789,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions\/2789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}