{"id":55676,"date":"2014-02-13T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=820bb2727f88d22c14a850ff5e7d0492"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:41:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:41:03","slug":"orlando-wetlands-park-222014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/orlando-wetlands-park-222014\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Wetlands Park, 2\/2\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a fantastic morning at Orlando Wetlands Park! The area was just filled with birds. Of course, top on my list was seeing a Vermilion Flycatcher. It was right where has been–in the cypress trees in cell #17. But the area was also filled with other birds.<\/p>\n

Lots of Blue-winged Teal and Green-winged Teal, as well as a Gadwall, a few Northern Shovelers and American Wigeon. There were also at least 40 Roseate Spoonbills, and I suspect many more. I didn’t attempt to count them, but a friend of mine counted over 100 in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

There were also at least 45 American White Pelicans that flew over the park. Perhaps the biggest surprise was seeing over 120 Long-billed Dowitchers, with a few Dunlin mixed in with them. And in reality, the photograph below shows closer to 150 I believe.<\/p>\n

There were many wading birds there, including on American Bittern and 2 Least Bitterns (heard only), and a couple Purple Gallinules. In all we saw 72 species on the morning–pretty fun.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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American White Pelicans<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Vermilion Flycatcher<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Long-billed Dowitchers<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Roseate Spoonbills<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Wood Stork<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Northern Mockingbird<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a fantastic morning at Orlando Wetlands Park! The area was just filled with birds. Of course, top on my list was seeing a Vermilion Flycatcher. It was right where has been–in the cypress trees in cell #17. But the area was also filled with other birds. Lots of Blue-winged Teal and Green-winged Teal, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2147739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2527,1121,2747,999,1030,1330,3270,2975,1164,7797,2466,1677,33,2465,3177,7819,1284],"class_list":["post-55676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-american-bittern","tag-american-white-pelican","tag-american-wigeon","tag-blue-winged-teal","tag-dunlin","tag-gadwall","tag-green-winged-teal","tag-long-billed-dowitcher","tag-northern-mockingbird","tag-northern-shoveler","tag-orlando-wetlands-park","tag-purple-gallinule","tag-roseate-spoonbill","tag-scott-simmons","tag-vermilion-flycatcher","tag-white-pelican","tag-wood-stork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55676","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=55676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}