{"id":2849,"date":"2022-08-24T08:45:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T13:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2022-08-24T08:45:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T13:45:20","slug":"pelican-on-the-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2022\/08\/24\/pelican-on-the-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelican on the Red"},"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\/172913349\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure everyone has seen the American White Pelican at some point\u2026perhaps in one of the many manmade ponds within the city.<br \/>\nIf traveling outside the city near Lockport, Selkirk or Gimli you may have noticed them soring high overhead in a group.<br \/>\nTheir main food source is fish and hunt for them singly or in a group as they are a very social bird\u2026often congregating forming a circle around a school of fish when located and begin feeding.<br \/>\nPelicans being the largest bird you will find in Manitoba with a wingspan of up to 90 in.<br \/>\nWould be pretty hard to mistake them for another bird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sure everyone has seen the American White Pelican at some point\u2026perhaps in one of the many manmade ponds within the city. If traveling outside the city near Lockport, Selkirk or Gimli you may have noticed them soring high overhead in a group. Their main food source is fish and hunt for them singly or [&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-2849","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\/2849"}],"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=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2850,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions\/2850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}