{"id":54037,"date":"2013-12-23T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=7dd421483f8590d40474239260644e2e"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:00:00","slug":"dabbling-ducks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/dabbling-ducks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dabbling Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few pairs of dabbling ducks. Dabblers do not dive to feed. Instead, they tip over at the water surface with their heads underwater and their tails in the air.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Blue-winged teal, Anas discors. The male has a distinctive white crescent on the face.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Northern shoveler ducks, Anas clypeata, famous for the large bill. The colorful male is on the right and behind the relatively drab but equally big-beaked female.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The familiar mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos. The green-headed male has a clear yellow bill.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few pairs of dabbling ducks. Dabblers do not dive to feed. Instead, they tip over at the water surface with their heads underwater and their tails in the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2147552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1402,1000,1344,999,2450,7797],"class_list":["post-54037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-anas-clypeata","tag-anas-discors","tag-anas-platyrhynchos","tag-blue-winged-teal","tag-julie-feinstein","tag-northern-shoveler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54037","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}