{"id":13997,"date":"2015-06-23T07:12:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T14:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13997"},"modified":"2015-06-23T07:12:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T14:12:36","slug":"merganser-fecundity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13997","title":{"rendered":"Merganser fecundity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By my count, this preening merganser hen had two dozen chicks (23 here, but one\u00a0had dived). Normally, a hen lays\u00a0from 6 to 17 eggs, more commonly between 8 and 12. I had previously seen a brood with 19 chicks, but this crowd was a first. Are all these chicks hers? Might other hens have laid their eggs in her nest?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13998\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/merganser150622s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By my count, this preening merganser hen had two dozen chicks (23 here, but one\u00a0had dived). Normally, a hen lays\u00a0from 6 to 17 eggs, more commonly between 8 and 12. I had previously seen a brood with 19 chicks, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13997\">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-13997","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\/13997","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=13997"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14011,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13997\/revisions\/14011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}