{"id":12350,"date":"2012-06-05T09:10:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T07:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=12350"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:26:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:26:02","slug":"no-quacks-just-whistles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/no-quacks-just-whistles\/","title":{"rendered":"No quacks .. just whistles."},"content":{"rendered":"

The grass whistle duck (plumed whistling-duck) is not a true duck because they are monochromic (both sexes have same colour plumage) and have long legs and necks.<\/p>\n

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Balancing Act - Plumed Whistling-Duck - Dendrocygna eytoni<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Also the traditional “quack” is a actually a whistle. Predominately found in N. Australia and scattered groups in New South Wales & Victoria, with only a small area in the northern part of South Australia where this bird is protected and must not be shot. Love the human reasoning.<\/p>\n

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Plumed (Grass) Whistle Duck - Optical mirror line illusions<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The grass whistle duck (plumed whistling-duck) is not a true duck because they are monochromic (both sexes have same colour plumage) and have long legs and necks. Also the traditional “quack” is a actually a whistle. Predominately found in N. Australia and scattered groups in New South Wales & Victoria, with only a small area […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2192232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Grass-Whistle-Duck2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[7765,380,379],"class_list":["post-12350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-australia","tag-plumed-grass-whistle-duck","tag-plumed-whistling-duck-dendrocygna-eytoni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}