{"id":46974,"date":"2013-08-24T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=e5c6da442d8a0d27afe10dd6b231af1d"},"modified":"2024-06-17T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T13:27:09","slug":"biolab-road-on-merritt-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/biolab-road-on-merritt-island\/","title":{"rendered":"BioLab Road on Merritt Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found all the normal wading birds and shorebirds on Bio Lab Rd today. Wading bird highlights were the normal herons and egrets, both ibises, and Roseate Spoonbills. We also had a fair share of Stilt Sandpipers, both Dowitchers, both Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Plovers, and Least, Western and Semipalmated Sandpipers.<\/p>\n

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Tricolored Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Roseate Spoonbills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stilt Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stilt Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lesser Yellowlegs with Larvae of Horse Fly (I think)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also found a small flock of shorebirds with dowitchers, yellowlegs and an interesting shorebird. It’s a Wilson’s Phalarope! It in the rear with a very thin needle-like bill, white throat, white rump, and pale lores.<\/p>\n

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Dowitchers, Yellowlegs, Wilson’s Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dowitchers, Yellowlegs, Wilson’s Phalarope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found all the normal wading birds and shorebirds on Bio Lab Rd today. Wading bird highlights were the normal herons and egrets, both ibises, and Roseate Spoonbills. We also had a fair share of Stilt Sandpipers, both Dowitchers, both Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Plovers, and Least, Western and Semipalmated Sandpipers. I also found a small flock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2193105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2013\/08-17\/i-jgF83KM\/0\/L\/_MG_3048-L.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"BioLab Road on Merritt Island","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[870,33,2465,1686,1688,4125,1116],"class_list":["post-46974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-lesser-yellowlegs","tag-roseate-spoonbill","tag-scott-simmons","tag-semipalmated-plover","tag-semipalmated-sandpiper","tag-stilt-sandpiper","tag-tricolored-heron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46974","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2193105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}