{"id":2979,"date":"2011-09-25T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T18:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2011-09-28T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T00:33:53","slug":"transitional-loon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2979","title":{"rendered":"Transitional loon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days ago, I posted an artsy picture I described as a <a title=\"Matutinal loon\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2968\">matutinal loon<\/a>. At the time, I was struck more by the beauty of its pose than by its state of moult. Others challenged me on my assessment that this bird was in its non-breeding plumage. So, I went back to all of the pictures taken at the time and picked a conventional profile view (below). I agree, it seems to be in a transition from its breeding plumage to its non-breeding plumage, but it has not arrived yet.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I have received another suggestion that this bird (photographed on September 23<sup>rd<\/sup>) is: &#8220;a non-breeder that has commenced molt in advance of the breeders in the population.&#8221; So, I have a question for the birders of this area: When is this transition made locally? Is this bird early or not?<\/p>\n<p>Common Loon: September 23, 2011, Kootenay Lake<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2980\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/loon110923bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days ago, I posted an artsy picture I described as a matutinal loon. At the time, I was struck more by the beauty of its pose than by its state of moult. Others challenged me on my assessment that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2979\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-2979","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\/2979","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=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2987,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}