{"id":87,"date":"2010-07-15T12:08:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T17:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2020-09-15T13:36:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T18:36:09","slug":"wild-turkey-poults-and-dust-bathing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Wild Turkey Poults and Dust Bathing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2010-07-jul-aug\/img_1980-resize.jpg\" alt=\"img_1980-resize\"><\/p>\n<p>Today the 3 wild turkey hens and 11 poults returned to our yard by Brown&#8217;s Woods in West Des Moines, Iowa, and spent an hour or so dust bathing. &nbsp;I understand the dust bathing ritual may involve efforts to clean the grease from their feathers, eliminate small parasites and\/0r cool off.&nbsp; The little ones seem to learn fast.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2010-07-jul-aug\/img_1988_edited-1.jpg\" alt=\"img_1988_edited-1\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2010-07-jul-aug\/img_1992_edited-1.jpg\" alt=\"img_1992_edited-1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Today the 3 wild turkey hens and 11 poults returned to our yard by Brown&#8217;s Woods in West Des Moines, Iowa, and spent an hour or so dust bathing. &nbsp;I understand the dust bathing ritual may involve efforts to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/?p=87\">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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowabirding","category-yardbirding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}