{"id":26757,"date":"2019-06-24T14:04:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T21:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26757"},"modified":"2019-06-24T15:21:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T22:21:57","slug":"loon-stressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26757","title":{"rendered":"Loon stressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26749\">Yesterday&#8217;s posting<\/a> asked whether a loon rising out of the water and flapping its spread wings represented preening or aggression. A brochure, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loon.org\/assets\/pdf\/Understanding-Loons-Brochure-2016.pdf\">Learn to Read the Signs<\/a>, from the Loon Preservation Committee says that the loon uses the wing flapping for each purpose. To distinguish them, one has to read the loon&#8217;s behaviour: had it been preening, or had it shown other signs of stress?<\/p>\n<p>I saw no preening prior to the wing-flapping display, but it did go on to show another sign of stress: sinking low in the water so as to become inconspicuous. It could well have been my presence that prompted the loon&#8217;s actions. On the other hand, I was on the bank when the loon came swimming by. It probably had not expected someone to be there. The loon and I then just wandered off in different directions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A loon sinks in the water, apparently to make itself less conspicuous.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26758\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/loon190623bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Yesterday&#8217;s posting asked whether a loon rising out of the water and flapping its spread wings represented preening or aggression. A brochure, Learn to Read the Signs, from the Loon Preservation Committee says that the loon uses the wing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26757\">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-26757","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\/26757","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=26757"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26770,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26757\/revisions\/26770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}