{"id":43340,"date":"2013-07-24T13:05:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T11:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/black-scoter-melanitta-americana-nt\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T08:54:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T07:54:29","slug":"black-scoter-melanitta-americana-nt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/threatened-bird-species\/vu-vulnerable\/black-scoter-melanitta-americana-nt\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Scoter Melanitta americana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This large sea duck is facing threats from a number of sources, but mainly from pollution and impact from oil spills, drilling and exploration. Like many species that congregate in large flocks in winter, the Black Scoter is also quite vulnerable to disease.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-385-43340\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3290\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/black-scoter-melanitta-americana-nt\/black-scoter-male-taking-flight-melanitta-americana-john-a-wright-1795.jpg\" title=\"A male Black Scoter (Melanitta americana) taking flight off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan.\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A male Black Scoter (Melanitta americana) taking flight off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan.\" alt=\"Black Scoter (male) in Flight\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/black-scoter-melanitta-americana-nt\/thumbs\/thumbs_black-scoter-male-taking-flight-melanitta-americana-john-a-wright-1795.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Black Scoter (male) in Flight<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3289\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/black-scoter-melanitta-americana-nt\/black-scoter-male-taking-flight-melanitta-americana-john-a-wright-1694.jpg\" title=\"A male Black Scoter (Melanitta americana) taking flight off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan.\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A male Black Scoter (Melanitta americana) taking flight off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan.\" alt=\"Black Scoter (male) in Flight\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/black-scoter-melanitta-americana-nt\/thumbs\/thumbs_black-scoter-male-taking-flight-melanitta-americana-john-a-wright-1694.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Black Scoter (male) in Flight<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This large sea duck is facing threats from a number of sources, but mainly from pollution and impact from oil spills, drilling and exploration. Like many species that congregate in large flocks in winter, the Black Scoter is also quite vulnerable to disease. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":837615,"parent":42872,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43340","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43340\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}