{"id":691,"date":"2014-07-20T01:06:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T08:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2014-07-21T01:25:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T08:25:08","slug":"wilsons-phalaropes-make-an-appearance-on-july-18-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Wilson’s Phalaropes make an appearance on July 18, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Visit to San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary on July 18, 2014 around 4:30 produced a pair of Wilson’s Phalaropes (male and female) that were seen at Pond C.\u00a0 Harsh lighting and similar red-necked phalarope plumage\u00a0 made it a bit difficult for a positive ID initially.\u00a0 After a closeup photo review afterward we had determined by their needle nose bill these were in fact Wilson’s Phalarope’s.<\/p>\n

Of note, unlike the majority of other bird species here in the U.S., the Phalaropes and the Kingfishers are the only species where the females boast a more colorful plumage than the males.\u00a0 Phalaropes offer a display of nervous, erratic like movements along with a spinning technique in the water to stir up food to the surface.\u00a0 They also can be found performing a constant darting and jabbing motion while seeking food sources within their environments.<\/p>\n

These photos were taken at the tail end of their typical mating season (quoted as per Sibley’s Guide to Birds) from April-July in breeding plumage.<\/p>\n

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\nA male Wilson’s Phalarope<\/div>\n
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\nA female Wilson’s Phalarope<\/div>\n
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\"Wilson's<\/a>A female (left) and male (right) Wilson’s Phalarope<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Visit to San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary on July 18, 2014 around 4:30 produced a pair of Wilson’s Phalaropes (male and female) that were seen at Pond C.\u00a0 Harsh lighting and similar red-necked phalarope plumage\u00a0 made it a bit difficult … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oc-birding-locales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Rhss-b9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}