{"id":34014,"date":"2013-02-14T13:12:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T12:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=34014"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:38:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:38:24","slug":"lesser-scaup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/lesser-scaup\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesser Scaup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the difficulties in birdwatching is telling similar species apart. In the duck family, the greater and lesser scaup can be difficult to distinguish. In my blog http:\/\/photobee1.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/how-to-recognize-different-species-of.html I gave some helpful hints on how to distinguish between the greater and lesser scaup<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34017\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 846px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6265-Edit-Edit.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6265-Edit-Edit.jpg?ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6265-Edit-Edit.jpg?ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6265-Edit-Edit.jpg?ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6265-Edit-Edit.jpg?ssl=1&w=240&resize=240&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6265-Edit-Edit.jpg?ssl=1&w=320&resize=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6265-Edit-Edit.jpg?ssl=1&w=500&resize=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6265-Edit-Edit.jpg?ssl=1&w=640&resize=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6265-Edit-Edit.jpg?ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6265-Edit-Edit.jpg?ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6265-Edit-Edit.jpg?ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6265-Edit-Edit.jpg?ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" class=\"wp-image-34017 \" title=\"Lesser scaup with wings spread\" alt=\"_D8C6265-Edit-Edit\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6265-Edit-Edit.jpg?ssl=1\" width=\"836\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Lesser scaup with wings spread<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34016\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 1034px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6304.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6304.jpg?ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6304.jpg?ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6304.jpg?ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6304.jpg?ssl=1&w=240&resize=240&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6304.jpg?ssl=1&w=320&resize=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6304.jpg?ssl=1&w=500&resize=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6304.jpg?ssl=1&w=640&resize=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6304.jpg?ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6304.jpg?ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6304.jpg?ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6304.jpg?ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" class=\" wp-image-34016 \" title=\"swimming in the Seekonk River\" alt=\"swimming in the Seekonk River\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6304.jpg?ssl=1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">swimming in the Seekonk River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the difficulties in birdwatching is telling similar species apart. In the duck family, the greater and lesser scaup can be difficult to distinguish. In my blog http:\/\/photobee1.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/how-to-recognize-different-species-of.html I gave some helpful hints on how to distinguish between the greater and lesser scaup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":2192780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D8C6265-Edit-Edit.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3277,3278,1338],"class_list":["post-34014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-greatest-scaup","tag-identification","tag-lesser-scaup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34014","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\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}