{"id":19105,"date":"2016-12-13T13:12:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T21:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19105"},"modified":"2016-12-13T13:13:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T21:13:42","slug":"duck-weights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19105","title":{"rendered":"Duck weights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Ducks seen along the lakeshore over the last few days ranged in weight from about 370 to 5000 g.<\/p>\n<p>A duck of our winter waterways the Bufflehead Duck, at about 370 g, is second in tininess to the slightly smaller Green-winged Teal. This bufflehead is a male.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19111\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bufflehead161213s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Still a fairly small duck, but at about 600 g, the Wood Duck is 60% heavier than the bufflehead. The female is on the left and the male is on the right.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19106\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/woodduck161211s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At about 1100 g, the Mallard is about 80% heavier than the Wood Duck. There are a number of male and female mallards in this picture, but the giant in the centre is a Rouen Duck. At about 5000 g, it weighs over four\u00a0times that of the mallard, but is a domestic breed of its smaller cousin. This escapee was also seen hanging out\u00a0with mallards about two years ago (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12859\">Rouen Duck<\/a>).<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19107\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rouenduck161211sDMF.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ducks seen along the lakeshore over the last few days ranged in weight from about 370 to 5000 g. A duck of our winter waterways the Bufflehead Duck, at about 370 g, is second in tininess to the slightly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19105\">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-19105","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\/19105","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=19105"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19124,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19105\/revisions\/19124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}