{"id":27848,"date":"2019-12-09T15:58:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27848"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:02:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:02:55","slug":"lucys-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27848","title":{"rendered":"Lucy&#8217;s back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How can one distinguish one Canada Goose in a flock of a few hundred? It is easy if that goose is leucistic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A leucistic animal is one where some region of its pelage lacks pigment. It is not an albino, which describes a complete lack of pigment throughout the body. For the leucistic animal, the pigment loss is just local.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A leucistic female Canada Goose has been seen around the Lake for over a half-dozen years, but I last saw it <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16053\">four years ago<\/a>. As the Canada Goose can live for a couple of dozen years, we may continue to see her for a while longer.<\/p>\n<p>A Canada Goose &#8212; nicknamed Lucy for being leucistic &#8212; was spotted along the shore among other geese. Her normally whiteish chinstrap is slightly beige, but her leucistic cap lacks all pigment.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27849\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/goose191209as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; How can one distinguish one Canada Goose in a flock of a few hundred? It is easy if that goose is leucistic.\u00a0 A leucistic animal is one where some region of its pelage lacks pigment. It is not an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27848\">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-27848","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\/27848","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=27848"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27857,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27848\/revisions\/27857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}