{"id":12859,"date":"2015-03-08T13:59:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T20:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12859"},"modified":"2015-03-08T17:37:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T00:37:49","slug":"rouen-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12859","title":{"rendered":"Rouen Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am one of those\u00a0who is unfamiliar with breeds of domestic ducks. So, when a giant Mallard turned up amongst a flock of familiar Mallards, it was worth recording.<\/p>\n<p>It seems now that the giant\u00a0is a Rouen Duck, a domesticated\u00a0mallard that has been\u00a0bred for its weight. This one has gone native.<\/p>\n<p>The Rouen Duck dwarfs the Mallards it now accompanies in the wild.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12861\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mallardbig150308as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If it didn&#8217;t look like its ancestral species, one might have guessed this was a goose.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12860\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mallardbig150308bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I am one of those\u00a0who is unfamiliar with breeds of domestic ducks. So, when a giant Mallard turned up amongst a flock of familiar Mallards, it was worth recording. It seems now that the giant\u00a0is a Rouen Duck, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12859\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12859"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12876,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859\/revisions\/12876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}